Not many kids on this cruise, the week after Thanksgiving. Got a great price for 7 day cruise $650 pp. for a balcony room center ship, empress deck. Carnival has made some obvious cutbacks on food in the dinning room, and on lido deck but the food in the stake house was excellent. I hear the computer went down and embarkation did not go well, boy was I glad we had priority boarding and got on early before the problem. Even in the state room you see some of their cutbacks no ice bucket you have to request one, the same with the robes. We really enjoyed the snorkel trip at Belize they picked us up from the ship, no need to take that long tender ride. Surprisingly not crowded, the gave my wife extra special attention because she was inexperienced at snorkeling. Crew - Staff were great, comedian's ranged from (1) was very good (2) were good (1) fair. Even with the cutbacks for the price you can't go wrong. Would definitely book it again.