My husband and I (I am not educated in the cc abbreviations yet) cruise every November. This is our second cruise with Carnival, and I talked my brother and his wife and their best friend into traveling with us this time.
We used the Park n Go parking service which was very convenient and I prepaid online and got a discount with them. They parked our car and took our luggage and dropped us off at our embarking area. We got in there around 12 noon and had no waiting in line at all. Everything went very smoothly.
Upon boarding, we went straight up to the Lido deck(which became our traveling partners favorite hang out)with our cooler of beverages for lunch and a view. It brought me joy to see my brother and his wife so enchanted with the ship since they have been on vacation by airplane but never this way.