This was our first 7 night cruise and first time to Alaska. So glad we chose Disney. It was only the two of us my DS 17 years old (Graduation present) and myself 37.
Embarkation - We live in Vancouver so we arrived at the port at 10:30am. There was only one other ship in port; The Norweigen Sun. As we arrived early, the whole process including customs took about 25 minutes. I learned later from one of our tablemates that he arrived after 1pm and it took him over 2 hours so my suggestion is arrive EARLY no matter what time your PTA is. You can always wait at the boarding area. There are pleny of chairs and you don't need to be stressed out waiting in line.
Cabin - I booked an IGT with restrictions as I booked the cruise 25 days out. Disney assigned us stateroom #5135 which is on deck 5 AFT near the movie theatre. The cabin and location was great. Not a lot of foot traffic in this area so it was nice and quiet. Cabin itself was spacious and very comfortable. Everything worked and it was clean. Our stewardess was Riva and she did her job very well. She was very polite and very accomdating. It was nice coming and going and always seeing her smiling and asking how our day is going.
I booked an IGT with restrictions as I booked the cruise 25 days out. Disney assigned us stateroom #5135 which is on AFT deck 5 near the movie theatre. The cabin and location was great. Not a lot of foot traffic in that area so it was nice and quiet. Cabin itself was spacious and very comfortable. Everything worked and it was clean. Our stewardess was Riva and she did her job very well. She was very polite and very accomdating. It was nice coming and going and always seeing her smiling and asking how our day is going.