Background Information  This was our honeymoon and first cruise. We had researched quite a bit on what to expect through travel agents, websites and a friend who cruises several times a year and has been on several different cruise lines. They recommended another line, but that one didnt have the itinerary we were looking for.

Travel To Port of Embarkation  We traveled down the day before and stayed in the Port of Miami/Holiday Inn. Nice room, decent price, but one of the elevators were out of order which caused us to have to wait 30 minutes just to get down to the lobby. Once outside, there were more than enough taxis and shuttles lined up ready to take everyone to the terminal.

Stateroom  Our cabin was wonderful. Plenty of room for clothes, put the suitcases under the bed. We didnt need any extra space in the bathroom as we both had plenty of space to share for our toiletries. There were only three things that were disappointing. One was the sink stopper wouldnt open, but a call to housekeeping and within 5 minutes someone was there and had fixed it (and this was before we had sailed). The second was that the TV volume was hard to adjust. Either it was too loud or too softwe did use it to watch some of the Carnival informational shows and some news. The third and most important was that the bed was two twins shoved together and there was no comfortable way to snuggle (being newlyweds) as it was bumpy and they continually separated. We asked to have it fixed, but nothing was done. Read more