Pre-boarding / Hotel
We stayed at the Doubletree - Westshore and took advantage of the "Park and Sail" package. The hotel was VERY nice. The room was spacious and clean. The parking area is in a garage, so it made us feel a bit safer leaving the car there for an extended period.
The morning of the cruise, we got up and enjoyed an incredibly overpriced breakfast in the hotel before heading off to a drug store to pick up some last minute items. Then back to the room for an hour before, taking the hotel shuttle to the port. The port was less than 15 minutes away. We departed the hotel at 11am and were on the ship just after noon.