Dawn of New Beginnings: Embarkation Day

We walked through the doors and entered a bland hallway. We rounded a corner and were directed to a decorative buoy for a quick picture. I don’t have that picture as we didn’t buy it ($25 CAN) and my eyes were shut. We went up an escalator and then onto the glass walkway.

Although it looks pretty and gave us a great view of the ship it was air conditioned poorly and very hot! We waited in line and then finally got to the top where there was yet another security point where our ship cards were scanned and checked. After passing through security we were finally on the ship in all of it’s magnificence.
We entered through the Grand Lobby on the 3rd floor with a glass surround elevator and two white staircases leading to the 2nd floor.

We wanted to check out our stateroom to see what we ended up with; an obstructed balcony or had we been upgraded to a deluxe balcony.

We had been upgraded to an unobstructed balcony and it was much larger than I had expected. It was about 10 feet wide by 5 feet.

Here’s the view from our balcony looking down towards the stern. Our stateroom was 4144 so it was just about mid way down the ship.
Both of the below pictures were taken from just outside our room. One was taken facing the bow and one was taken facing the stern. Hopefully I captured some of the idea of just how large the ship was.

Here’s what our room looked like standing at the balcony door and looking toward the middle of the ship.

It was almost time to disembark from the pier so we headed up to the top deck (deck 12) to watch.