We loved this holiday. We arrived at the terminal early - 11:05 and to be honest I expected to be turned away - but no drove up to the luggage drop off, the porter removed the luggage and of we went o park the car (a very short distance away). There was no queue at check, we had a very short wait int eh lounge before it was announced we could board the ship and by 11:45 I had a glass of champagne in my hand.
Cabins were ready at 2 o'clock but in the meantime we explored the ship and had lunch in the great outdoors in glorious sunshine looking at the white cliffs of Dover.
We had a balcony cabin, aft on deck 9, which was lovely quiet location. The cabin was great, good amount of storage, but a little more thought could have given us more - but it was fine. Bathroom was great - really lovely that it was a shower cubicle - nice and roomy and no nasty shower curtain.