We flew into Tampa from Pennsylvania. Had a fog delay and missed our connection in Detroit. This was a nightmare we have traveled on the day of the cruise before with no problems but not this time. We called the emergency travel delay number from Carnival and they were great as we didn't get to Tampa until 2:45pm and were the last guests on the ship. Missed the muster drill because of this but that wasn't such a bad thing. We had an inside cabin but we got an upgrade to a 4-F with an obstructed view of the life boats. We had a balcony door but no balcony. The cabin was big enough for the 4 of us, but it could have used more hangers in the closet, next time I will bring my own. Also the hair dryer is in a drawer and it is attached to the drawer so it was hard to use. I will also bring my own the next time. My husband wanted to use the gym but it seemed crowded most of the time and not much free weight equipment either. Our dining waiters were Ryan and Venera they were great very nice to our kids. Our stateroom person was Omar he was nice but didn't see alot of him. But my 18yr old liked to sleep late. They club 02 was ok but my 16yr old said the club on the Inspriation was better. The ship itself was nice and clean and very easy to get around. The entertainment was ok boring at most. Jen the cruise director was okay alittle annoying at times, but I have been on ships where the cruise director was great. We never had a problem getting a chair by the pool it was better in the adults only section but when its hot the pool deck gets really hot and also the stairs into the pool we hot. Getting off the ship was not bad we were one of last numbers to be called and we had breakfast and went back to our stateroom and stayed there until the stateroom attended asked us to leave. One thing we learned is that we will travel the day before as I said before we had a travel delay and it was very stressful as we were not sure that we were even going to make the cruise. Lesson learned. We didn't do any tours from the ship as they can be costly especially for 4 people. We are looking forward to our cruise on the new Carnival Dream in November.