I have been on four cruises; one Norwegian, one Royal Caribbean, Carnival Freedom and now Carnival Splendor. I have also had the opportunity with my family to experience an inside cabin, ocean view stateroom, and balcony staterooms. I went on the Carnival Freedom January of 2012 on a six night cruise to grand Cayman and Jamaica. I only mention this because what I discovered on my first few moments on Carnival Splendor is that Carnival Freedom and Splendor are carbon copies of each other. The only strong discernible difference was instead of fish & chips on deck 10 of Freedom, Splendor offered a Rotisserie stand instead at the same exact location.

So my first impressions of Carnival Splendor after boarding were "this is nice, very pink, very "classic" decor. This particular cruise was of a 5 night round trip out of Manhattan New York cruise to St john's New Brunswick Canada, and Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. I traveled with my girlfriend of six years, this was to be our first time cruising without family and traveling abroad without family. We were super excited to meet up with some fellow cruisers who although we had never met before we had connected through the smartphone app shipmate (an amazing free app all cruisers should check it out). We were very excited to meet up and were initially worried that it might be difficult blind meeting another couple on such a large ship. Our fears were proven to be unwarranted however because quickly after boarding we realized we four were the ONLY 21-25yrs on the entire ship. So finding each other was easy and quickly we all became traveling buddies and good friends.

Now being completely Objective about this voyage there are some very good and some not so good things about the ship and my experience on the ship. Read more