My husband and I went on our first cruise together and we had a wonderful time. It did help me a lot to check out the "Cruise Critic" website for helpful advice. Here is our trip---
We landed in Orlando and took the Mears transportation service. The bus was completely full but we did leave just a few minutes after getting on the bus. The staff was courteous which is always nice. The trip to Port Canaveral took about 45 minutes. When we got to the port it was raining, so that did make getting off the bus and checking our luggage a little crazy. Overall it went smoothly.
After entering the area that we check in we were overwhelmed by all the people, but to our surprise the entire process of checking in (checking birth certificates and ID's) and getting our Sail &Sign cards. We thought with all the long lines it would take forever...we were wrong. The staff moved us along quickly and were nice about doing so. We landed in Orlando at 1:00 and were in our ship cabin at 3:00 pm (not bad we thought!!)