As a repositioning cruise, 3 days was a great way to know whether the Sprit would be added to our cruise repetoire. Sadly, We made up our minds not to return before we were even onboard
Since we are used to embarking around lunch time on most cruises, we were not impressed to have to wait till 4 pm to check-in. When asked why we had to wait till then, I was told first in first served, so the earliest you check in online, the earliest you get onboard. Hmm interesting! Then when we checked in, my husband was given a different card to me. Seems that they just forgot that we had both cruised with Carnival before. When we went to change the card - since he got a free drink and I didn't - it took over 30 mins with the staff member apologising constantly that the computers were very slow! Dear me Carnival, bit out of date are we!
As we would be staying for a week in melbourne and visiting our friends, we had 2 reds in the back pack. Carnival took these off us when they spotted them on xray! Not that that worried us as we had no intention to open them onboard but most cruise lines allow at least 1 bottle of wine/person, so grow up Carnival!