My wife and I travelled with one other couple on the 1/10/13 of Ecstasy. Stopped in Nassau and Freeport. Cruise Director is Brent Mitchell. We stayed in Inside Cabin R38. First time on this ship but had been on Inspiration (same class) twice before. As you can guess from the title, it was not my favorite cruise. Will get into details as we go along.

Embarkation

Very smooth. There was no line to get checked in when we arrived around noon. My wife had checked a couple of weeks before to see about any upgrades to an Ocean View cabins and was told that the ship was sold out but that didn't seem possible based on the few people at checkin. The clerk got our room key packet - and what may have been an omen of what was to come occurred. My wife's key was there but mine wasn't. Instead was another passenger's named Cynthia. This lead to a few jokes with my wife about who this Cynthia person was and why she was in our cabin. It took the clerk about 10 minutes to finally locate my key and we were on our way onboard. Rooms wouldn't be ready until 1:30 so we went to Lido for lunch and a Drink of the Day (Funship Special). Food was pretty good. I most enjoyed the Mongolian Wok which hadn't been on any previous Carnival ships. Read more