PreCruise: Stayed at Embassy Suites on night. It was adequate as they are still renovating. The location is excellent. Took the water taxi to Las Olas for dinner. It was very lively and fun to walk around. Shopped at Publix for precruise drinks.

Embarkation:took a cab to the port at 11am. We had to wait for our in-laws so it slowed us down, we could have gotten right on. Considering we dropped our luggage off early we did not get it until after dinner--the latest ever I have waited for luggage to come. we did tip and apparently it did no good. The embarkation itself was easy but you enter the sip in a very crowded small lobby space, difficult to navigate with my mother in law in a wheelchair.

The Cabin was an outside on the Main deck, very spacious. My in-laws were in a hc room which was TINY--all the space was given to the bathroom, there was very little storage for them and the wheelchair could not fit inside the room. Read more