Ok, here is my attempt to review my family cruise. My wife and I took our 6th over all cruise, 2nd on Carnival. We took our 7 year old son with us for his 1st cruise. To say that my wife and I love cruising would be an understatement. While we have not been on as many as some people here on Cruise Critic we go as often as we can afford to.

Travel to the port in New Orleans was a little confusing. We planed to and did park at the Fulton St. parking. But when I pulled into the parking garage I was not even sure that I was at the Fulton St lot. But at that point I was tired of driving around downtown New Orleans and wanted to be off the road. But Fulton St. was cheaper by $20 I think then the terminal parking and the shuttle was right their to get us to the terminal.

There did seem to be an issue with how many people Carnival had checking people in. One line (left side of the terminal) had about 8 people checking you in. While the right side only had 4, and my luck we got in the right hand side and waited longer then we could/should have. The only reason I mention it is because we noticed at least 4 other Carnival people standing and walking around that I'm guessing could have helped check people in. Read more