We joined the Carnival Victory in Barbados as part of a Stay and Cruise. We had no problems joining the ship, and was quickly shown to our cabin, which was lovely and clean on arrival and we were impressed with the size of it.
The ship was in immaculate order and very clean, staff worked around the clock to keep it that way too.
I have to say that we were very disappointed with our cabin service, we had friends onboard down the hall from us who received far better service than we did, infact I had to complain after our room hadn't been serviced for 2 days! even then they never replenished bottled water etc.