My DH and I took this cruise as our honeymoon, and my sister, Bro-n-law, and 15 yr old niece also went. We arrived in Port Canaveral two days prior, to start our vaca early and to meet some great people we met on our rollcall and FB, staying at the Radisson. The hotel was extremely crowded, and I was really not impressed with the accomadation with the price we paid. I will say the shuttle service was great though.

The day prior we recieved notice that embarkation was delayed until 3pm due to and emergency stop and late arrival of the ship, emergencies happen, while we were dissappointed, it was understood. We still ended up at the port at 12 for lack of anything else to do. We had purchased F2F and quickly processed in, but had to wait for passengers to disembark. We were the first group on once boarding started at around 2, went straight to our rooms and our luggage was there. Dropped off carryons, and hit the food area and explored the ship. As with other reviews I was not impressed with the layout.

A real negative was while we were able to get to the port and on board earlier, Many people we spoke with later were not able to get their shuttles until after 3, which they reached the peak arrival time. (Due to the late embarkation, the ship was not set to sail until 6pm) There were ALOT of people we noticed in line for food as soon as they arrived on board, but were made to leave the lines to attend the mandantory muster, only to return after muster to find the buffets had closed and had missed early dining seating. We thought that was just wrong of Carnival and the ship management. Read more