I will start out by saying we really enjoyed our cruise. This was my 5th cruise and 1st for Wendy. Unfortunately for us we did not have the greatest weather. In my previous 4 February 7 day cruises I only experienced one rainy day and this cruise we had 4 days of rain. It only reached 60 F when we were in Belize. We managed to get some sun and there was plenty of fun stuff to do when it was raining. Our first port of call (Cayman Islands) was canceled due to choppy water. The first time I have had a port of call canceled. None of this was Carnivals fault. We enjoyed most of the entertainment on board the ship. Some of the shows were duds but most were entertaining. We enjoyed one of the comedians on board the other two were mostly dull to me, I enjoyed the hypnotist act and I always enjoy the dance shows. I enjoyed all the bands on board and in particular I enjoyed the Latin Band the best(they played alot of Salsa, Meringue and some Cha Cha). We also made new friends on board which always seems to happen with some 3,000 odd people aboard there is plenty of opportunity to meet new friends. We had late sitting for dinner and had great company with the 4 other couples at our dinner table. The service for dinner was great and we were served quickly though I have never raved about the food at dinner (average), I appreciate the scope of serving 3000 dinners in two seatings. I would not complain about dinners, I know for some people the food is high priority and people want to notch meals and food throughout their cruise. We found the food better than adequate. I found somethings on board that I really enjoyed, But I have to say that at the end of the week I was happy to be heading home were I can get a better variety of meals. One of my criticisms of the past week is the mixed drinks on board. We are not "drinkers" by any means, but if I purchase a mixed drink I want it to have a little kick behind it. We only purchased 4 mixed drinks and a couple of beers the whole cruise. I believe the Carnival must think that by watering the drinks down yo will buy more drinks to compensate for the lack of alcohol in the drink, this had the exact opposite effect with us. We purchased drinks on shore to get our modest alcohol fix and is essence Carnival made nothing off drinks from us. If they ever stop watering down their drinks we will buy drinks on board. My other big turn-off on board is the constant stench of cigarettes on board. I can never remember such on awful smelling cruise. Of course we had no choice to endure the disgusting smell of tobacco our entire vacation. I guess we must have had an inordinate number of smokers aboard. I have to take every piece of clothing we took on our cruise and put it in plastic and have all our clothes cleaned we we came home because when we opened our suitcases it smelled like a smoke house. If cruise lines do not offer smoke free cruises they should seriously look into offering this, because if they did we would never cruise on a smokers cruise again. In closing I have to mention the staff was excellent. Our room was always clean. The did a terrific job cleaning the whole ship with over 3,000 people on board. All in all a terrific experience, I would definitely do it again.