My DW and I just got back from our Oasis of the Seas cruise from October 2-9, 2010.

We flew in on a red-eye from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale that left at 11pm on Friday and arrived on Saturday at 7am. If at all possible, don't do this, it made the first and second days very tiring. The good thing was that the flight only took 5 hours, but again it made for a very long day.

We visited with some friends and had breakfast and did not arrive at the dock till 11:30. The luggage was loaded right onto carts at the curb. The dock was very well organized; there was a separate area for the people with priority check in and for the rest of us. There were about five separate lines for each deck and if you have done your online registration, everything went quickly. Important note: make sure you get your ship map when you check in; there are none available on the ship. We were aboard the ship by noon, and this was only because we waited for some of our group of 24 whom we saw checking in. Read more