I'm a first time cruiser 27 years old female and I sailed with my 26 year old fiance.

I did a lot of research before my cruise so I felt that I was pretty much ready for anything. Well not everything, after waiting for and 1 1/2 at the airport for the carnival shuttle to pick us up I was pretty exhausted from all the traveling, since I flew in on the same day and was not expecting to wait that long for the shuttle, since mostly all the tips was talking about flying in the same day and staying at a hotel, I thought there would not be that many people waiting for the shuttle. I was wrong there were a ton of people and 4 buses came and went before it was our turn to get on and we arrived just shortly after 10 am. Not really a problem, I'm just impatient which is my own problem, lol. When the shuttle finally came the ride there was short and a breeze mostly because I fell asleep and so it went by in like 5 minutes.

When we arrived at the port the line was so long I almost fainting I was hungry and thirsty and it took about 1 1/2 hrs to get to the front because the dream arrived late because of weather. I actually told my fiance half way thru, I want to go home this isn't worth it, lol. I was of course lying, I've been planning this vacay for 8 months and there was nothing that was going to keep me from getting on that boat.When we finally got on the boat, there was really no direction for what we were suppose to do, so we went on the search for our room. We upgraded to a deluxe ocean view the month prior and was so glad, the room was big the window was nice but dirty the whole time, no problem though we could still see ocean and it was nice especially at night, it was scary looking out and seeing nothing, it made me really calm though. Read more