We had a group of eight (family of four, family of three and family patriarch!) traveling together. We had three cabins (two on Upper Deck, one on Main Deck) for the four-day trip to the Bahamas with stops in Freeport and Nassau.

We arrived on Saturday February 6 in Orlando and stayed there for the night. The next morning, the space shuttle Endeavour was scheduled for a launch at 0439 (which seven of us woke up for), but that was scrubbed due to weather.

We took the Cocoa Beach Shuttle (http://www.cbshuttle.com/) from Orlando to Port Canaveral (for the eight of us, I think it was just under $100 each way before tip). No complaints about their service: The driver promised us someone would be there to meet the boat upon its return and, just as advertised, we had a driver waiting for us on Thursday morning the second we walked off the boat. Read more