Extremely long loading times

Has anyone else been experiencing ridiculously long loading times between zones lately? I've never had issues with this throughout alpha & beta, nor did I after launch, but ever since the server expansion maintenance, my loading screens feel excruciatingly long at times.

It took me a good minute and a half to load after teleporting from Ul'dah to Camp Tranquil just now.

Not from me. Nope. :o

Not me, but my GF who has almost the same pc as me. She also has an issue sometimes with NPC's that won't load once the long loading stuff starts. A restart of the game fixes it usually but no idea what causes it