I sailed with my family on Sun Princess departing March 29, 2007 from Fort Lauderdale. This was my second cruise (first was Carnival Legend).
The group consisted of Myself a 38 year old Firefighter from New York, my wife, our four year old son, my sister in law (spinster) and my in laws who are retired. At Fort Lauderdale we had no problems reaching the port in the Hotel shuttle, which dropped us off right at the terminal. There were ample porters and the embarkation process was very smooth. We attached our tags to the bags and later we found them outside our stateroom despite my wife deleting the deck number from the tags. This compared to our last cruise which embarked from NYC was a dream in comparison. There port was clean fairly quiet and there were no lines to speak of.
First let me say that crew on this vessel was impressive. I was so impressed that I will mention several by name in hopes that some Princess folks read this an take notice of the dedicated people they have in their employ.