We were skittish about taking Carnival again (this was my 5th Carnival cruise, my wife's 3rd). It turns out we had reason to be. But it was the only itinerary which worked for us on the one week we had to get away.

Let's begin with Day 1. Our luggage is exactly the same, just different colors. I tagged both bags and turned them into the curbside porter at exactly the same time. Carnival somehow loses my wife's bag tag and, even though her name tag was still attached, no one bothered to cross check it and deliver the bag by 5:15 pm (an hour into the voyage). So I had to fetch it myself by walking up to Guest Services.

Early that evening a steward came by to service our room. I told her we were getting ready to clean up for late sitting dinner and asked her to come back while we were eating. She said that was fine. When we returned to our cabin after dinner... the room hadn't been touched. I called Guest Services to tell them about it and told them we needed fresh towels. We left for awhile and came back to find a pile of towels on the desk. No one took away the soiled towels, nor did anyone replace our beach towels. Read more