We took this cruise as a Spring Break family cruise. Our group included 34 people ranging in age from 52 to 6 or 7, with 12 being 18 year old )or very close to 18 year old)high school seniors, so we utilized every service Carnival had to offer. It's been 2 days now and I am still rocking which is not normal for me, but other than that I am ready to cruise again. (Which I will be doing in June.)
As this was my fifth cruise and second with Carnival I had some idea what to expect when boarding and found this to be pretty easy. However, I had printed the on-line fun pass for faster boarding and still needed to complete some of the forms in the boarding documents that were mailed to me. Also, once on-board the ship guests we required to activate their sign & sail cards with Carnival so I didn't really understand the point of doing it all prior to. But regardless, boarding was easy and activating the card only took a few minutes because they had lots of staff set up to help you do this.
The ship was a little broken up and hard to navigate, but by the end of the cruise we knew what decks would and wouldn't get us through to the other end and just avoided them. One downside was the whole smoking in the casino and where it was located. In order to get from the front of the ship to the back on the promenade deck you had to walk through a cloud of smoke. I noticed a lot of people who were not real pleased about it. This also happens on lido when you leave Rosies on the smoking side. The smoking section has no opening windows and is covered so the smoke seems to gather and stay right in that area.