We have been on 5 cruises, Carnival was the worst. Our luggage was lost and our other bags were torn and two we did not get for one day as they delivered it to the wrong room. One never showed up the entire cruise and they could care less of our loss. The food was terrible and made us sick. We had 4 cabins and everyone that ate fish got violently ill. The rooms stunk, and were noisy and our mini balcony room was no balcony, it was a joke with two doors that opened inward to show you a little 3 foot wall that blocked you from moving further and your view was a stinky, noisy, creaky life boat that blocked any view you thought a window room would give you.
The kids activities were non existent. They had no supervision and sick kids in the play rooms and they let kids as young as 9 like my son leave the play room and get lost or go anywhere they want, while the teens in charge lounged and chatted with each other. Then they lumped 17 year old with 12 year olds (which was our daughter) in this two story disco room that was filled with kids smoking and making out that made you sick and scared all at the same time. They had no planned activities, just suggestions of things to do and even then they never followed through so our kids never went back. It was a joke unlike the Royal Caribbean line that had jam packed supervised fun stuff all day long. This ship was downright dangerous for kids to be on.
There was no kids pool, so they just dropped off into 4 feet of water, so the not so strong swimmers struggled. The slide ... OMG what a joke, it doesn't even go into a pool!!!! It stops at the end and they have to climb out, to which our son fell out and had to go to the infirmary and he was cut up and bruised and there were no adults anywhere near the end of the slide. We waited at the steps and realized how dangerous it was and they never went on it again, not to mention it did not have enough water so they got burned coming down.