My husband and I drove down from TN Saturday morning and stayed with family in Orlando for the night. The drive and arrival to Port Canaveral was a breeze and so was unloading our luggage at the pier. Much better and less crowded then Ft. Lauderdale or Miami. This was our first cruise as Diamond members and we enjoyed the advantage of check in. We arrived at the pier at about 1:10 and made it to our cabin by 1:30 and that included me stopping to get my beverage card. We then made our way to the Windjammer for lunch and breezed thru the food line.

We had a promenade cabin this time that looked out at the jewelry store, my favorite type of store. The cabin was nice size and I enjoyed looking out the window. We never had a problem with noise. The one night they held the parade late, we watched it from our room. The funniest view out our window was the night they had the watch sets on sale on the promenade deck,that was one of the only times I could say I would have felt crowded if I was down there. It reminded me of the day after Thanksgiving sales in the stores.

We had the late night seating for dinner and enjoyed the other two couples at our table. We had a table for 8 but it wound up just being the 6 of us the entire cruise. The dining room was not crowded around us and that could have to do with having 3 levels for the dining and the Windjammer for dinner along with their specialty dining. We found the food on this cruise much better then we had back in February on board Adventure of Seas. I go for the steaks and my husband usually goes for the fish. We did dine at Chops Grille one night and found it to be very good. Lunch in the Windjammer tended to be pretty much the same each day and since they have different food stations we didn't find a line longer than 5 or 6 people in front of us on any of the days we ate there for breakfast or lunch. We did go to Johnny Rockets twice during the cruise and enjoyed it. Read more