It was the first cruise for my daughter and I. She is 31, severely handicapped and uses a wheelchair outside of the house. I wanted to try a different sort of vacation for us since Disney and Universal (definitely NOT Universal) are too much money, too much aggravation and too little reward. I am so glad we had such a bad time at Universal. If we hadn't I never would have tried cruising. This will be our new vacation!

I don't think Carnival is the cruise-line for us but we still had fun. Plenty of food and lots on the ship to explore. Since I've never cruised before I don't know what other ships are like. But I know I would like a cruise ship that has and enforces an adult pool and a kids pool. An adult hot tub and a kids hot tub. Is there such a cruise-line? I aim to find out, one by one.

Since my daughter wears diapers I was not able to go into the pool or hot tub, nor did I try. I don't think you would want her in your pool/ hot tub (and she is not allowed), so what makes you think I want kids in my adult pool/ hot tub? I have a cruise set up on the NCL Pearl next March to the Caribbean and one of my daughters aides is coming with me. I got a good price (I think?!) So it will be neat to have someone to take turns caring for my daughter. Read more