Aside from our wedding, our honeymoon cruise on the Victory was going to be one of the highlights of the year. Not only did we pay for our own wedding, we saved for over a year to pay for our honeymoon. It was the silver lining to a year filled with financial sacrifces. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the nightmare of our year. I will now factually tell you what happened.

We booked our cruise to the Caribbean in January of 2012. My husband doesn't like to take any risks so he booked everything through Carnival...airfare, transportation, etc....which means everything is more expensive. We also purchased the insurance for our trip. At the agent's recommendation, we were to fly in on the same day we were supposed to embark. We both had a huge problem with this, but were assured they do it all of the time. We reluctantly agreed, but were excited. We splurged and got us a nice room with a balcony. Ocotober couldn't come fast enough.

Fast forward to the end of October 2012...the day we leave for our honeymoon. Just like we feared, our American Airlines flight was delayed in Dallas for four hours...we weren't going to make the ship. We immediately called Carnival to figure out what our next move should be. We were upset but knew they would just fly us out to the next port to meet up with the ship in St. Thomas the next day. After two hours on the phone with the Carnival agent, we were told they couldn't find us a flight to St. Thomas. We would have to wait until mid-week to get on the ship when it docked in Barbados. We asked for a partial refund and they refused, saying they would put us up in Barbados for two and a half days. They gave us a food allowance (an allowance we had to pay for upfront but were promised to be reimbursed for)and booked us a flight to Barbados. We asked about our luggage and were told they were already pulling our bags to make sure they came with us. Read more