Carnival Fascination Review

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Carnival Fascination - Bahamas

Review for the Bahamas Cruise on Carnival Fascination
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girlinchicago
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Mar 2007

This was a spring break cruise, so keep that in mind! On the cruise were me and my younger sister, both college or grad school age. We are from the midwest, so were looking forward to SUN and WARMTH. We flew into Miami late on Wednesday night and took a cab directly to the hotel, Howard Johnson in Miami Beach. Cabs are EXPENSIVE in Miami, I should have remembered how far apart everything is. When we got to the hotel, there were drunk spring breakers stumbling all over the place. It must have been because it was a cheap hotel. I don't know how old the average spring breaker is these days, but I swear the kids looked like they were 16! And they were loud and obnoxious and made me feel old (and I'm only 25!)

Anyway, our day in Miami was really fun. We laid out by the pool and on the beach all day. It was about 80 something and a GREAT beach day. We went looking for a grocery store after we were completely fried, and bought some snacks for the ship (which of course we didn't need since they feed you every five seconds) plus some liquor to take onboard. We then went back to the hotel to get ready for our night on the town on Ocean Drive! I've been to Miami once before and remembered how much fun Ocean Drive is, and I wasn't disappointed. We took a city bus and it was easy and cheap. The food was awesome, etc etc. Then we went back to the hotel to get some sleep before getting on the ship on Friday!

Embarkation was supposed to start at 1:00pm, but we got there early because we were at the hotel, and it was raining, and we really didn't have anything else to do. We took a cab to the ship and were VERY excited to get on board! As soon as we got out of the taxi, we were accosted by porters (I think because we were so early they had nobody else to bother). They grabbed my suitcase which did not yet have my room tags on it. I filled it out and handed it to the porter, but later found out that he didn't even attach it and just threw my bag in with everyone elses. Not that big of a deal, except I had to go look for my bag later after my sister had already gotten hers.

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