Firstly,a little about ourselves: we are mid 40s, no kids. self proclaimed wine and food snobs. we cruise for the ship, not the port. usually. More on that later.... this was our third cruise overall and first with Royal. ur first, Carnival Pride out of LA was enough to convince us we liked cruising. just not THEIR style of cruising, Second was Disney. What?! a couple of childfreebychoice middle agers on Disney?! .. yeap..and we had a blast. but this is not about the Disney Magic. This is about The Enchantment of the Seas.

and she was definitely enchanting. Baltimore is a grand whopping 20 minutes away from home so getting there the morning of was breeze. until my husband missed a turn. but I digress....

got there around 1115 ish. Didn't even have to take the luggage out of the car, they send you over to the porters first and they do all the heavy lifting before sending you to the lot. parking was a breeze, although the line to pay in cash was definitely much shorter($15 a day). since we had a suite we were whisked over to a short line and waited maybe 2 minutes before being ushered over to check in. as soon as that was done we went straight on board and were on deck for before noon. Read more