If you have some time before or after your cruise, give the Carrie B. a whirl. It's extremely interesting to see how the ".00009 Percenters" live. $25 million dollar homes with$50M yachts tied up out back. It's not extremely intimate, so don't expect to have the personal chat, but it really is a perfect way to get an overview of the canals, the homes the boats and how the upper crust lives. (as well as a couple of real dirtbags, but they'll get their just desserts before long.)
Just around the corner from their dock is very good shopping, dining, drinking and people watching. (Las Olas neighborhood.) The guys were kind enough to hang onto our luggage while we were on the Carrie B, then long enough for us to go have lunch and stroll a bit. Very nice bunch of guys.