I don't know what is wrong with some of these people or what they expect, This is our second cruise with Carnival our first one was on the Elation 1 year ago and that was our first cruise to tell you the truth thats the only way to go, we went to on a 5 day to Ensenda and Cabo didnt make it to Cabo because of a hurricane threat, so we decided to try it again and went on the Splendor in Long Beach to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo WOW did we have fun, yes there were 3700 people aboard (1200 children) but not one time did it ever feel that way, the lines for breakfast lunch and dinner you had maybe 15 people in line at a time. The ship as like the Elation is beautiful, the crew was FANTASTIC!!! For all of them to put up with so many people every day up to 8 months at a time my Hat goes off to you. They job must be very stressful. Any ways my favorite port was Mazatlan at a beach called Stone Island the kids and us went ATV riding, horseback riding, and on a banana boat all for $45.00 per person beautiful beach. And in Cabo went to a beach call Medano beach on a water taxi great fun they even took us first to see the arches and also made sure we were back in time to catch the tinder boats. So to make this short and sweet maybe some people expect tooooooooo much we all had a wonderful time oh also the Camp Carnival for kids is awesome there was so much to do we probably slept about 5 hours a night so we wouldnt miss anything, Dinning EXCELLENT entertainment EXCELLENT will book again on next vacation. SUPER JOB CARNIVAL BEST VACATIONS EVER.
Two times we had a stateroom because of the price but I think next time if we book far enough in advance we will go for a balcony room.