We had taken a flight into Seattle that arrived around 11 AM, and took the light rail to the Westlake Center - easy, and about 30 minutes. It is a longish walk from the baggage carousels but level, and well sign posted.

We left our suitcases at the Mayflower Park Hotel (with some discussion - we had e-mailed but they couldn't find it) since we were staying there on the return from Vancouver - and went off to Serious Pie for lunch & a little shopping.

The cab dropped us off close to 2:45 PM which I guess was cutting it a bit close - there was no line & we ended up dragging our suitcases the whole time, since as others have posted, there is apparently no baggage drop off on one nighters. We dodged the photo line just inside the gangway, and were directed to the atrium elevators. Arriving at our cabin we discovered twin beds despite our cruise personalizer clearly stating "queen". The room steward was adamant that we had specified twin, until we showed him the print out. Once that was taken care of, we read in the Patter that Muster was scheduled for 3:15PM, not 3:30 as we had guessed....so really not much time to unpack if we had wanted to. Read more