We usually fly/bus/train into the port a day or two before the cruise. I almost always work my last day at home and I actually pack at the last minute. I start organizing as soon as the cruise is booked, and many of my "travel items" stay with the suitcase, so it is mainly just my clothes that need to be packed. I have packing light down to a science and it only takes a few minutes. Then we drive either from two to four hours to one of the cities we fly out of to stay in a hotel where we can leave the car for the time we are away and fly/bus/train out next morning.
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