This is my 7th cruise, and 4th on Carnival. This is the best cruise yet! Some of my main issues with cruise food is that it can be blah. This cruise had tasty desserts (and yes, they had taste!!!) and the dinners were excellent. Even the on-board lunch, which is usually my least fav, was a WOW Italian buffet. The cabin stewards, wait staff, and entertainers and bar people all were very cordial and were service oriented. The onboard was a breeze, the tendering was well run, the drill at the beginning of the cruise was nice since most was indoors and you weren't sweating to death.

Had 2 at-sea days, great brunch! The 2 ports of call (Cayman and Cozumel) were both interesting and the tours from them were really great. The beds were comfy and although I made the mistake of getting a room under the dining area, mostly quiet. (It appears at 10p till midnight they move the chairs around in the dining room. Why???

Only odd thing was the room was never cleaned at the right time. They always wanted to do it after I came back from means. Read more