My wife & I tell everyone that wants to know that our favorite cruise line is Royal Carribean. We are working diligently on a status level where can have free drinks before dinner one day- if they don;t keep stretching the rules on their program.

Anyway, enough about RCL - this is a Carnival review. Our cruise was 5 nights from Galveston, and this review will highlight comparisons with the RCL Mariner of the Seas, which we sailed only 3 weeks prior from Galveston.

We were pleasantly surprised with the overall experience. Read more