Recently enjoyed a relaxing 4-day cruise on the Carnival Imagination over spring break/St. Patrick’s Day. We had two cabins, a balcony junior suite for my wife and me, and an interior room for my two teenage sons and two of their friends. Our family has been on several cruises. This was the first cruise for their friends.

After reading a few of the recent reviews on here, I was wondering if it was going to be a disaster, but it was not anywhere close to as bad as some people portray. If you want to find something to complain about, you can. If you want to relax and enjoy and not worry about the small stuff, you can do that to.

Hotel Info – We stayed on the Queen Mary the night before the cruise. This was a really fun way to start a cruise, particularly if you have never been on a cruise before and want to see how sea travel used to be done. I reserved a queen room for us, and a two queen room for the boys. My wife and I walked to our assigned room and found one twin. The front desk could not explain why I did not get my reserved room other than to say they had no vacancies and could not give us that kind of room. They moved us to a two twin cabin and knocked down the price, but I was not thrilled (I know, don’t sweat the small stuff). Read more