EMBARKATION: With Priority Boarding it was easy. We were on board around 11:00AM and our room was ready. This was a new experience walking onto the ship and going straight to stateroom where we unloaded our carry on and refreshed. Went to lunch at Lido at 11:45 and food was reasonably good - actually better than we expected,

My husband and I have cruised 50+ times with many lines, this was #18 with Carnival. We’ve been to the Caribbean many times, so we cruise for the ship sake and not the ports. We are seniors, like really good food, enjoy the theater productions, like shopping and meeting people. We have been on tours in the past so we seldom take the ship tours.

CABIN: We selected COVE BALCONY Room 2381 because we had read that being close to the water was interesting - that you could see fish jump - well, we didn’t see any fish, and we were not on the port side so we couldn’t see the port or people boarding, To us the Cove Balcony was no big deal. The room is the same room you would get anywhere else on the ship. The room was kept clean, ice twice a day (at our request), plenty of towels always, duvets were exchanged for blankets at our request. We gave the room steward $20 upon arrival and our service was excellent all week. There was some bumping overhead at night (must be MDR galley) but this was only a slight annoyance. Read more