This cruise consisted of my husband, me, my husband's brother and his wife. I want to thank our Carnival Cruise planner for the assistance he ALWAYS gives us and always with a smile!!!!

All of us have cruised before and are just over the age of 50. We flew to Tampa a day ahead of time as always, because you just never know what kind of weather we will be having where we live or at our destination. I will break my review down into the ship and then tell about the excursions.

We stayed at the Quality Inn Airport on S. Mabry in Tampa the day before the cruise and the day we got off the cruiseship. They have an airport shuttle. The hotel was not the best, but definitely not the worst. Definitely in need of updating, but it seemed clean enough. People were nice, decent area and there was a Wal-Greens a couple of blocks away and several eating establishments within walking distance. Read more