We just returned from a 7 day cruise on the Valor to the western Caribbean. Ports included Grand Cayman, Belize, Honduras and Cozumel, Mexico. 2 Adults and 2 kids, ages 5 and 8.
This is our fourth cruise and my first review and sorry if I am little critical or blunt but these are the things that I would like to have known before booking this cruise.
Firstly the ship. I think we got spoiled on NCL and Royal Caribbean but Carnival Valor really did not live up to past experiences on cruise ships. If I was to compare, I would say that if NCL is like a 4 star hotel, Carnival is at best a 2 star.
We had a balcony cabin on deck 8 which was nicely laid out but directly opposite the elevators and the noise woke us up early every morning. Our neighbors had huge fights every night at about 2am after drinking to much. Not the cruise ships fault but the walls are paper thin.