Our cruise was actually a disappointment after many months of anticipation. We are Platinum - this was my l3th Carnival cruise and my husband's l2th.
We drove down the day before our Oct. l5th cruise and stayed at a local hotel in Cocoa Beach. There was nothing special about it - good or bad. I booked thru Kayak website and used Easy Click Travel.
I had pre-booked a reservation @ Park-N-Cruise for the parking. I was a little disappointed with this. I thought we just dropped off our luggage and got on a shuttle bus as pictured. NO. We had to stand in a long line wrapped around inside the warehouse like building carrying our 8 pieces of luggage for the 3 of us. Yes LOL I know we over pack. So my l5 yr. old daughter and I are moving the luggage thru the line as my husband parked the car. I think line was about 45 min. long. It was not organized and I saw people skip the line and walk up from another direction - get on before us. I thought I was to be riding in a shuttle bus as pictured on their website. NO - they called in vans - taxi type vans we were loaded into. Harder to step into without steps/seats very close together w/no knee room and the windows were down blowing our hair. I do understand there was 3 ships in port that day leaving - Norwegian Sun, Disney's and the Dream but they should have anticipated that better.
Noisy late at night about midnight. Did not like the "new closet" with clothes from front to back on one of teh closets.