This was my very first cruise and I enjoyed it immensely. I looked forward to it for months, and now that it's over, I'm hooked on cruising. My only disappointment was that I couldn't be in two places at once so I could do more.
My friend and I arrived at the cruise ship terminal between 12:30 and 12:45 PM. There were already a ton of people in line even though the official embarkation time was 12:30 PM. With this being my first cruise, I wasn't aware that we could have gotten there a lot earlier.
After standing in line, filling out more paperwork, getting our sign and sail accounts set up, and having our pictures taken, we were in our cabin by 2:00 PM. Our cabin was just like the pictures I've seen online...very nice and spacious. We had an inside cabin on Deck 6, Category 4C.