For a change I'll try to contribute a few things not usually discussed in other reviews...
To begin with our sailing differs in that it involved 40 people in 15 cabins. Ages spanned 2 through 75. We had mostly Cat BC Balconies, then some window and inside cabins on deck 7. Our group traveled in from Honolulu, Chicago, Arizona and from all over California.
The Hawaiian folks came in 1 or 2 days early and stayed at a Springfield suite or Marriott. Travel and transit for them was routine and uneventful.