My husband and I were on the Costa Fortuna, Eastern Caribbean itinerary, from March 23 - 30, 2008. This was our 15th cruise and our second with Costa. We are in our 40's, just the two of us traveling. We have previously cruised with Carnival, NCL, Princess, Royal Caribbean and Costa.

Embarkation: We flew to Ft Lauderdale the morning of the cruise, something we don't normally do, as it makes me nervous! But, no problems on our flight and we arrived at FLL at 12:15pm. We got a cab without much wait, but the traffic to the pier was very heavy because of all the cruise ships that were in that day. We sat in traffic, across from the Fortuna, what seemed like forever, but there was no jumping out of the cab and running across the street with our luggage!

Once in the terminal, check-in was fast and efficient. Read more