Our Trip on the Carnival Miracle was one of the most enjoyable family vacations we have ever had. We are a family of 5 our oldest is 14, and the other two are 7 and 4. They all enjoyed the kids club almost more than they did anything else. In fact it was very hard to drag them away. The fourteen year old had more freedom in his club, because they did activities all over the ship. Since we had a 4 year old we were given a cell phone for use on the ship in case she needed us, which she never did. The nice thing about having the cell phone is that our teenager could call it from phones in side the ship to check in. There is no charge for the cell phone, unless you lose it, plus it doesn't work off of the ship.

A little bit about our background. We traveled by mini van from Ohio a day early so we could get in the warmer weather sooner and hopefully allow extra time for the just in case that might come along. We looked into air fare for all of us and it was going to be around $2,000 so it was much cheaper to do it this way. It only took about 16 hours to get there.

My husband and I have been on 4 cruises 1 of which was with a competitor. Carnival just keeps winning us over with their low prices and wonderful ships. The kids were nubbies to cruising and are life long cruise addicts like us now. Read more