We sailed on December 19-26. This was my husband and I's 6th cruise and our children's 4th. We have been on Royal Caribbean, Princess, Carnival, NCL and MSC. We have enjoyed all of our cruises some more than others. We really enjoyed this one.
The night before we stayed at the Fairfield Inn Cruise Port. Hotel was very comfortable. We rented a car and when we returned it rode the shuttle bus to the cruise port.
Embarkation: We arrived at the ship at approximately 1:30. We would have been there earlier had our rental car shuttle bus not broke down. It ended up taking 1 ½ hours to get to the ship. Once we made it to the port. We were on our ship within 15 minutes. We used the computers to do the check in. We did have to have assistance as it was a bit confusing.