Our Carnival Dream embarkation 11/5/17

There has been a lot of discussions about the staggered embarkations Carnival has adopoted. This was our experience.

We flew in the night before and stayed at the Marriott Fairfield Inn near the airport. Our scheduled cruise check in time was 11:00 to 11:30 so we planned on arriving a little before 11:00 intending to get in line. We took Lyft Plus (5 people, lots of luggage) - it cost $37.00 including tip. We arrived at 10:45 and found out that we could enter the building early, but so could the 11:30 to 12:00's and the 12:00 - 12:30's. We gave our bags and a $10.00 tip to the porters and essentially walked up the the check in counter at wihich time, we were given our sail and sign cards. We were in group 8. We sat about an hour and by noon were on the ship. I went straight to Guy's burgers and was sitting sitting down enjoying it in about 5 minutes. My son got in the Mongolian wok line and eventually ate (the wok was sloooooooow all cruise long). At 1:30, they allowed us into our room. .