If you're traveling or flying to the departure port the same day, (which we are going to try for our next cruise, 😬), make sure you're leaving home very, very early that day, Way back, on one of our first cruises flying from New York to Ft. Lauderdale, we left New York airport at 8am, our cruise was leaving at 4 p.m. Plenty of time, so we thought. We had a delay leaving New York due to an equipment problem with the plane and we finally got to Ft. Lauderdale, there was another delay-- getting a gate because we were off schedule. Bottom line, we got to the ship a little past 3 p.m.; too close for my cup of tea. Wife wants to leave and arrive same day; lost the argument! 🤞