Just a little background on us, it was my husband 46 and myself 50 from Miami, Oklahoma. I had a friend of mine that had her sister come with her. All of us had been on a cruise before except for the sister, first cruise.

We drove down Friday night and arrived in Galveston Saturday morning just in time to see the Ecstasy arrive, went to the pier and watched her dock. We then went to our hotel Galveston Hilton and they let us check in early, at 8am. The hotel was great, would stay there again, great price(got on hotels.com). The only thing I would change, park your car in the Lighthouse parking lot or across from the pier, we did the free shuttle from the hotel(free parking at the hotel)and waited 1 1/2 hours for the shuttle to pick us up after the cruise. Never again!

Embarkation was easy, long line but went very quickly for the amount of people that were there. Got on the ship and first Drink of the day by 1:00. Was very chilly the first day out and the day coming back was very rough(went through a cold front)so you almost felt ripped off those two days, too cold to enjoy the lido deck. Read more