PRE CRUISE: We flew in late Friday night (into FLL), and spent the night at the Spring hill suites in Dania. We have stayed there many times before and as usual we were very happy with our stay. The hotel is clean and the staff is always wonderful. We were picked up by Quality Limo promptly at 9am. We had to drop a large family at the Miami airport first and I was impressed that the driver asked us to make sure all our bags were there before he continued on to the port of Miami. We were dropped at the port by 10:15.

EMBARK: We were greeted right away by a porter who took our bags and told us that we would have to wait until 1pm to go into the check in area and pointed to an area where we should wait. We thanked him and went straight to where you get in to go on the ship. Glad we didn't take his advice, since we were able to get in and were right by the front and got in to check in with the first group (we are Diamond, but stayed with our friends in the regular group for check in). We were on the ship by 11:45! We did see a packed terminal when we went to get on the ship. We went to make our spa appointments and then ate lunch at the Windjammer. Easiest muster ever that day too!

STATEROOM: We had a wonderful, clean cabin with plenty of storage space and we had our room attendant open the balcony divider. Fitzroy was a great attendant, and even looked for us one afternoon to make sure we were happy since he never saw us (we were always on the go). Read more