On December 20th, I realized that I hadn't yet made plans for our annual Holiday trip to the Caribbean. My husband works for a major airline, so we are used to last minute travel. Since I wasn't able to book a hotel room on one of our favorite islands, I thought that it might be nice to book a last minute cruise instead. It has been 9 years since I took a Caribbean cruise and I even though I prefer doing my own thing on the islands, time was running out and if I wanted a vacation, I needed to make a decision and fast. I learned that Carnival still had outside cabins available for their New Year's cruise that departed December 28th. I was very impressed with the ports that they were planning to visit, as I had never visited three of them: Dominica, St. Lucia nor St. Kitts. I has reservations about traveling with Carnival, as I never had in the past and had always heard that other cruise lines offered better service, food, etc. but I overlooked all of this and couldn't wait to board the Victory.

I liked the decor of the ship, the theme was the Seven Seas of the World and each public room carried the theme of one of the seas. Very creative!

Our stateroom was larger than the staterooms that I remembered from previous cruises and was very comfortable. There was lots of closet space and I enjoyed the bedding that was complete with a comforter and duvet cover. Read more