This was my 3rd cruise with carnival for me and my wife but 1st for my sister and Mother. we decided to spend the night at my moms the night before so we can all get ready and leave together. we take a cab to the airport for our flight the day of. everything went smooth, as i always fly in the day of the cruise so i wasn't worried. we get to miami and catch a cab to the pier. pass our bags off to the baggage handlers with a nice tip.( 2 out of the 4 bags were destroyed more on that later) now getting onto the Ship was a bit tedious with the long lines but we persevered and made it lol i was a little disappointed that they no longer had the miami welcome aboard pic when you walk thru the grass, but the pic we did take was nice.

we got on the boat at 1:20pm and proceeded to our rooms hoping our bags were there, no such luck. we decide to head to the lido to grab a bite to eat and i noticed a few cut backs on the food carnival served. it was still good but not what i remembered. the hot dogs were def different, no more fruit punch and now the ice tea has no sugar lol that was weird to me so basically you were to drink lemonade or water. the new yorks deli cornbeef and pastrami wasn't as good and they acted as if putting extra meat was gonna bankrupt the place lol i tipped him a few bucks and he gladly did it , but it wasn't what i was expecting, gave it a try once more but was disappointed in the taste.

i was surprised at the chicken fingers, they were delicious as were the burgers, the chinese place was barely open and carnival would close it at 330 but would have it open all day during excursions , by the time u get to the boat it was closed. Read more