Well I have been on a total of 5 cruises. I have always been very bleary to try Carnival Cruises. I have always heard they are very wild and everyone drinks too much and things get very out of hand. Well at the urging of my travel agent I decided to give the Elation a try. Let me tell you this was one of the best cruises I have been on. We loved every minute of it. We had a blast. I will go on a Carnival Cruise again.
Of course when we got there we encountered a lot of madness, traffic etc but what do you expect 2,000 people are trying to board at the same time you are. Hello! The lines were long and it seemed like we were in line forever and when it finally came to our turn the Carnival people were so amazingly nice and friendly. I mean no matter what cruise you take waiting to board is a given. So just get over it if lines bother you. The cruise is worth the wait. We boarded and we were starved so up we went to eat. The food was delicious from day one to the end. We ate breakfast and lunch at Tiffanys and dinner always in the main dinning room. The food was excellent and if we didn't like it or it was not what we wanted they would take it away and bring you something else always with a smile. It was never a problem. They called us by our names after the first meeting. They were the greatest!
Now as far as our room steward he never met us never came in to our cabin which I found unusual. He did a great job of keeping our room spic and span and cleaning it right after we left for breakfast but I really have no idea who he was. A few times someone did say Hello in the hallways so I assumed it was him. That bothered me at first but I cannot say anything bad about him. We never did room service.