This was my seventh transatlantic sailing and I know what to expect. I saw this cruise on Carnival and the price was good so I booked it using my personal vacation planner at Carnival. I am a platinum sailor and very familiar with Carnival.

Boarding was a breeze and there we no lines at all. Went directly to my outside stateroom which was nice and big, clean and updated.

We had nine sea days in a row before the first stop. The library almost immediately ran out of books but I had brought some paperbacks. Entertainment means alot to me so I was looking forward to the nightly shows which turned out to be a little disappointing. Instead of getting entertainers to do the nightly shows, they used the comedians already on board to do some of the shows and had guests sing almost like Karaoke on stage. The two on board production show were good though. Once we got to out first port, they brought on some professional singers which was very welcomed by all the guest. Read more