My darling wife (44) and I (52) just got back from the Inspiration last Saturday and I thought I would write a review. First of all, this was our second cruise, we went to celebrate our anniversary and we had a blast. Our first cruise was on the Imagination in 02 and the weather and the food were both terrible, so it took us a while to work up to trying again. We had hoped to take a similar cruise last year on the Sensation & out of New Orleans, but...
I will go through the standard phases most folks use here for reviews.
EMBARKATION: Piece of cake. We drove down to Tampa the day before, got in a little shopping and ate at PF Chang's. We stayed at a residence inn out by the airport and even though there was a Bucs game that day, the traffic was not bad at all. Got up on Monday and did a little more shopping and got to the port at 12:15. We were on the boat and in our room exactly one hour later. I self parked for $60 and it wasn't bad at all. In the terminal we experienced a couple of lines, but all of the port folks and the Carnival folks were very nice and pleasant and we had no problems what so ever.