We're flying into FLL to sail out of port everglades, hope it's not that bad! We're flying in the day before and staying in a hotel though so there is no time pressure for us.
Our previous cruses have been out of Port Canaveral, Long Beach and Seattle. All were mostly ok though somewhat time consuming, but this was before everyone got on board with online checkins and such, so I'm expecting this time to be smoother. Overall I'd say Seattle was my worst experience and least favorite port. It's pretty small and seemed completely unable to handle the crowds of the larger ship (a few years ago when we went Explorer was the largest cruise ship to ever sail to Alaska). Getting on board was not terrible because we arrived early and crowds weren't bad but getting off was a complete nightmare. They had two ships disembarking at the same time and finding your luggage in the giant room they unloaded into was a mess (most of our luggage was not even in the correct alphabetical zone). After we finally managed that though we had to go outside with a mass of other people and wait for one of the 3 shuttles that were taking people to their cars (the only parking was a half mile away). People were waiting hours, in the rain, to get on a shuttle to get to their cars. I'm at a loss as to how they only had the shuttle vans to take around 5,000 people to their cars...