We made a point to leave our house at 7am and parked at 9am. We took our time and with that timing the previous passengers were vacating their parking spaces which had us right up front. Yes we waited, made sure all was in order. Everything in car taken out and nothing valuable in plain view. We walked across the driveway to the tent showed our medallion info and waited .Snaked to security medallion scans and waited in terminal for about an hour and on the ship by noon.
Ship didn't depart until 4:00pm.
The best part about leaving early was taking our time because we've never been to the cruiseport before and parking was amazing because of empty spots from the previous departing passengers.