We sailed in January 2014 for 2 5 day cruises back to back. One to Eastern Carribbean and the 2nd to Western.....We had sailed previously on the Emerald Princess and enjoyed that ship immensely and knew that the Ruby would be the same type of layout.
Embarkation was a breeze and did not take long at all...The only hiccup we had was the transfer from the Hotel to the pier, as they apparently forgot about us and our Princess Rep had to call to get the bus to come and get us.
Once on board, we made our way to our room, and found our luggage inside our room already, and we were promptly greeted by our room steward (Marian) who went over important issues with us. He took care of us and the room throughout the 2 cruises wonderfully.
We were not impressed with the fact that our stateroom had 2 more fold down beds in the wall. This made a small room very much smaller, as we could not even stand beside the bed. We had not been told about this fact, that our room was for 4 people. Personally I cant imagine living in this space with 4 persons. Other than that, we do not mind the size of the room. This particular stateroom was a bit noisy. We did not hear anything from the laundry room next door, however the Theatre above, provided lots of noise during show time, as well as when the Front docking propellers were activated, there was a bit more noise and vibration.