A little background... I'm in my thirties, divorced, no children. This is my third cruise, and my second with RCCL.
I flew down to Fort Lauderdale from Kennedy Airport via JetBlue two nights before the cruise. (I almost didn't make my first cruise two years ago, so I wanted to give myself as much of a "time cushion" as possible.) As this was a group cruise of about forty single Christians, a block of rooms had been reserved for us at the Ramada Inn Fort Lauderdale Airport/Cruiseport. I shared my room with two other women, and the room was comfortable, but I never saw housekeeping once - or any sign of them, if you know what I mean. The food at Brewster's Pub, however, was quite good, and we had a refrigerator and microwave in the room as well.
All three of us woke up at 3:30 in the morning on embarkation day due to a drunk opening a fire door and setting off the alarm. Even after the alarm was disengaged, we couldn't fall back to sleep. After all, this was the big day! Our group met in the lobby at 10:45 and traveled en masse to Port Everglades. Embarkation was quick, and by noon, we were all onboard the Radiance of the Seas and lunching in the Windjammer. (And the first thing I went for was the honey-stung fried chicken!)