We are new cruisers on Carnival. Most of our cruising has been on RCI . last year we spent seven days on the Carnival Glory and enjoyed it. This year due to time constraints we could only manage the four day.
We spent the night pre cruise at the Hyatt Ft Lauderdale, very clean hotel, their shuttle service to and from the hotel was a factor in our choice. We booked SAS to transport us to the Miami port they were on time and very pleasant.
We arrived at the ship around 12 noon and were aboard by 12 30. I was happy that we no longer need to drag life-jackets to the lifeboat drill and it went very smoothly. We all sat in one of the public areas and the drill lasted no more than 15 min.
Not noisy. Closet space adequate. Second hand smoke was a problem although they did place a ionizer in the room we had to keep the air conditioner much colder than we are used to. I wish they had no smoking rooms. We will probably not use carnival again because of the smoking issue.