We had a great trip! We got back on Friday and I've been playing catchup all weekend with mail and laundry and shopping. We had no food in the apartment since we spent most of the summer at the lake. Thankfully we have a supermarket that delivers!
It took about 45 minutes to get to port, and then from the door of the taxi to our stateroom was another 45 minutes. In spite of all the posts on Cunard boards about the mess that Brooklyn CT is, we found it extremely organized and straightforward. It helped that we knew in advance exactly what was needed and we had our paperwork -- yes actual papers -- very well organized. In fact we arrived way too early for our 1pm boarding time, but we were already in our cabin dropping our bags before 1pm and on our way to lunch. It has us thinking about other cruises from this area just because it is so nice not to have to fly.
Our cabin was starboard so we had the city view instead of the Brooklyn view upon boarding. We were on deck 6, forward of center. On QM2 we learned everyone refers to their location by the nearest elevator bank, so we were near the B elevators out of A,B,C and D. After a quick lunch we did our tradition of starting at the top of the ship and visiting each deck.
We had absolutely beautiful weather for our departure day. These were taken from our balcony.