We sailed on the Disney Magic last year and loved so we tried a cruise a little closer to home on the Carnival Pride.
BOARDING
We flew in to Long Beach with America West and they sent one of our bags to Minnesota. So my mom had to buy clothes from the ship until we got Puerto Vallarta. We did early check-in at 10:00AM on the Queen Mary. Getting on the ship took about an hour and we were eating lunch on the Lido Deck.