Boarding was easy at about 11:am took about 45minutes, later in the day 2:30 there was almost no line.
Departure from New York is wonderful, seeing the tip of manhattan and the Statue of Liverty then just clearing the Veranzano Narrow Bridge. Seemed like we cleared it by about 20 feet.
We went back to interior cabin for this trip, to save a little and it was fine. since our last Princess criuse two years ago we had traveled on Azmara, and Celebrity, so both smaller shipes and hugh ones.