I cruised on the Carnival Imagination in early March on a 4 day itinerary to Key West, Cozumel and a day at sea. Boarding the ship was easy, do your "Fun Pass" stuff before arriving and it goes very quickly. We were on the ship by noon and eating lunch on the Lido deck. Food was delicious and plentiful. Our group of 5 young adults then started to explore the ship before our room was ready. Ship was spotless and clean. We finally went to our room at 1:30 p.m. to discover that we had a large king size bed taking up most of the room, 2 fold out "bunks" and a roll out that came out from under the king size bed. Could have been more space consciously organized, but was a good size. We dropped our stuff off, then went to the muster drill where we learned absolutely no useful information. Many people wandered in late which held up the process, what could have been informative was really just a waste of everyone's time. Went back to the room and took a short nap since we'd flown in early that morning and wanted to be rested up for dinner.

Dinner was fantastic! I had the lasagna as a starter and highly recommend it. Melting cake was delicious although it could have been cooked a little more. No complaints there, we had a wonderful time in the dining room. The maitre'd was a bit flamboyant and cheesy, but we enjoyed the servers' "dance" at the end of the evening and they must have been doing a fantastic job acting like they were having a good time dancing because they appeared to be genuinely enjoying themselves. Beds were insanely comfortable and we slept soundly.

The next morning we got to Key West early. We debarked and took a trolley into town. I'd been to Key West before and knew it was one huge tourist trap, so no surprises there. We wandered around for a bit and bought some souvenirs and fudge, then boarded a trolley at the same spot where we'd been dropped off only to realize about 2 hours later that we'd boarded some tour of Key West! We were driven around the entire island with a narrated tour for free! Ooops! Good thing we had a lot of extra time! When we got back, we walked around the corner to where the cruise shuttles were actually parked and marveled that MANY people probably do this! Why pick up someone a block away from where you dropped them off??? Anyways, made it back to the ship for a late lunch in the dining room. Then, a few of us decided to hit up the deck for some sunshine. There was a definite shortage of lounge chairs and we walked around in circles for awhile to find them before deciding to just sit on the ground. I plopped down next to a lounge chair with a pair of sandals on it to "save" it and after lying next to the empty chair on the ground for 20 minutes, I simply removed the sandals and took the chair for myself, much to the chagrin of the girl who wouldn't stop telling me that her "friend" would be back and would want the chair back, never saw him. You are not allowed to save lounge chairs, so if you see this happening, simply do what I did. Stayed out for about an hour, then went back inside, took a nap, and got ready for dinner. Another wonderful time in the dining room for formal night, this time the servers sang to us, they didn't appear as happy. Went out in the dance club afterwards and had a good time. Caught a glimpse of one of the shows, but from what I saw it looked ridiculously bad and we left within a few minutes, bad lip synching and dancing. Read more