My husband, 3 year old and I travelled with my sister and her husband on this cruise. My husband, child and I had an oceanview cabin (1276) which we loved. The shower was the biggest we had seen. The A/C didn't work extremely well, but it was cool enough. The window was huge and my daughter liked to sit in it so she could see outside.

This was our first trip on Carnival. All of our other cruises had been on Norwegian. There are good things and opportunities for improvement for each cruiseline, and I can't rate one over the other. We really like that Carnival gave us the opportunity to dine at our leisure because that's one of the things that we liked about Norwegian. I was a little worried that we might have to wait to be seated at dinner, but we never waited more than 5 minutes and most days we didn't wait at all. We were assigned to the Golden Dining Room. The menu selections were great! One night, we even had an option for Filet Mignon, which is one of my favorites. The Chocolate Melting Cake for dessert is great. Also, for the calorie conscious, they had diet banana cake, and it was great as well.

We typically ate our lunches at the buffet. The crowds at the buffet sometimes had us waiting 30 minutes or more for lunch, and this made it difficult for all of us to eat together. The food on most days, though, was good. Read more