We booked our cruise through Carnival's office in Colorado (the 1-888 number). We booked our airfare through Jet vacations in Winnipeg and our excursions on the Carnival website as well as the Drink Tickets in the gifts area. We left Wpg where it was a balmy-29 degrees Celsius. We had to be de-iced on the tarmac before we left. We finally dept. at about 6:30 am. and arrived in Minneapolis 50 minutes later. Departed for San Diego in about an hour. Arrived in San Diego and was accosted by the Carnival shuttle people as soon as they saw our tags for the ship. We were told it was 16.00 for the trip and was better then taking a taxi. He didn't tell us it was 16.00 pp but he really lost out when we got a 2 for special!! We found out on the way back that it was still less to take a cab (8.20).
We got to the terminal( could have thrown the bags there it is so close) and went to bay 1 to get in line. Took about 5 min or less and we were in chairs for 45 min. then got called to board.
** This is the second time we have been on this ship in a year. Last year it was the Southern Caribbean. We got a 20% off this cruise, 100.00pp on board credit and a welcome aboard gift, (we chose the photos). We also got a second welcome aboard gift letter for a phone call to Carnival's HQ complimenting our PVP for her friendly service. There were lots of problems on our last time on this cruise line but we thought they deserved one last chance.