We wanted to go on a Princess cruise for our honeymoon, only to see that about a month from our wedding, our dream cruise was sold out. So, we found the Carnival Freedom, a large, fairly new ship from Carnival (our second choice to Princess), at a good price and going to ports of call that I had been dying to try. I wasn't expecting it to be amazing, to be honest, but it fell short.
Embarkation
We got to Port Everglades around 11am, and joined the massive line. Overall, I think Princess does a much better job at embarkation, they divide up the line by ship deck so you don't have to wait so long. The line was huge, but when we finally got to the desk they were efficient and friendly, and we went to sit down to get called to board and sat for less than 5 minutes. We brought our luggage with us (since it was our honeymoon we didn't want to take any chances losing luggage on this trip!). It really wasn't so bad to bring the luggage on board ourselves. I sat with the luggage at the buffet while my husband got us a plate of food, and we ate, and then he sat while I got more food. By that time, our room was ready so we just took the luggage in and kept on exploring the ship.