My husband and I just returned from the Feb. 20, 2005, sailing on the Valor. We traveled with 3 other couples of various age groups. We arrived at the port of Miami at 12:30 and although everything looked very confusing it wasn't.

We arrived by private car and were directed right to the luggage drop off area. The porters took our luggage and we were off. It went very quick and painless. I highly recommend paying the porters to take your luggage on both outbout and return.

The next step was also painless, just have all documents ready before you step foot in the building and you will move through all the steps quite quickly. After all the steps we arrived on ship at about 1:15pm. Read more