We flew in a day early and stayed over at the Hyatt Regency in Miami. Nice hotel, clean, heated pool. Nice and easy metro system in Miami....free too! We took the metro to Bayside Marketplace and ate dinner at Bubba Gumps. Good food...high prices. The marketplace itself was cool to be in though!

Got to the port around noon....there were 11 of us checking in at the time (the other 3 had VIP check in...la de da! LOL). When we got there we were amazed at the length of the lines. We had 3 kids around 9 with us...and they were not happy to see that! They moved the lines very quick though. We were on the boat with drinks in our hands in an hour.

Rooms: We had a balcony room...no other way to go! Our steward, Rambert was AWESOME. The first 2 nights he was waiting for us when we got back from dinner so that he could see our daughter's reaction to the towel animals. Read more