After reading a few of the other reviews I thought I would add my two cents worth.

This was our sixth cruise and fifth with Carnival and one Princess. We booked through the Carnival vacation club which was fine.

Embarkation: We got to the airport at around 8:30am. We had our transfer with carnival and they were they in around 15 minutes and took us to the pier. Stopped and dropped off a couple people at hotels and then on to the pier. No comments from driver just drove. This was in a van. Got to the pier and they were still letting off the returning pax. They didn't have a manifest yet and were doing it manually for a while. This was OK and didn't take long and then we were seated in a bunch of chairs to wait. With the vacation club we were supposed to go to the skippers club which never happened, asked several times. After seating they for 30 min. we were taken to the main check in desk, had ALL my papers filled out and were there for about 3 min. Then to the picture for S&S card. was there at 11:30 had to wait till 12:00 to get picture asked again about Skippers club no again. The good thing was we were first in line so it really wasn't to bad. Got pictured at 12:00 and were on ship Read more