We arrived at the bus for the ride up to Manhattan about 06:20am Saturday morning Sept 5th at the Susquahanna Valley Mall in Sunbury, Pa - met up with the folks runnin the show, and we were all onboard by 7am on our way to Manhattan, we stopped at a Cracker Barrel along the way for breakfast, and arrived at the cruise terminal before 12 noon
Embarkation was seamless as usual, we had to wait a little longer than usual to board do to the late arrive of the Miracle, seems the night before they had a medical emergency and a passenger had to be air lifted off the ship and transported to a hospital
We boarded the Miracle by 1pm, and had our first DOD in hand on the Aft Lido deck area soon after while waiting to have the First Meet & Greet, we met carnival connection & cruise critic members there and had drinks & lotsa laughs
We had cabin 8275 ( aft extended balcony ) cabin was great, only thing was that in the morning we had a little noise from the above Lido deck when they were putting out the deck chairs, no biggie as we were usually up by then
Overall well pleased with the cabin, cabin steward, and everything else