I think this is my first review of a cruise on this forum. I have cruised 3 times previously, and this cruise was the 2nd group cruise we took. We book through an agent as we can keep the booking open longer than Carnival allows, and had 46 people in our group.

First of all, I posted a question about separate lines in Galveston, because I have a passport but my sister and her kids did not. Last year there was a passport line and a birth certificate line. This year there was only one line, and it didn't seem long at all from the back of the line to boarding the ship. The sun we ordered with our cruise was missing, but thankfully it caught up with us later. We won't be cruising in January from Galveston anymore. Texas weather is too unreliable.

The first thing we did on the ship was grabbed a bite to eat on the Lido deck and looked around because my sister and kids have never cruised before. At 3 p.m. we headed to the Red Frog inside for a meet and greet for our group. At 3:15 I asked for a ball for the foosball table. The person behind the counter very loudly and rudely told me "we are closed." Um, looking around with people everywhere, they clearly were not closed, and he even sat down a bowl of banana chip things right after he told me that. I can only assume he was getting ready to close for the 4pm (45 min later) muster drill?? That instantly put me off. Read more