I just returned home from an absolutely marvelous time on the Miracle, so I thought I'd share my thoughts with you. The good, the great and even the not so great.

To start, we brought along my mom who is a platinum carnival cruiser. So embarkation was so easy, we were whisked right to the VIP check in line it took all of 5 minutes to check in and get on the ship.

We went right to the Lido deck to await our cabins readiness. Every crew member we passed greeted us with a friendly hello! We spent a little time checking out the welcome aboard buffet. The buffets on the Lido deck are vey nice. Breakfasts are full of omelette stations, and a variety of other yummy breakfast items, scrambled eggs and bacon are daily staples. Fresh pastries, cereals, and fruit are plentiful. The hot chocolate was always hot and very tasty! I recommend the buffet for breakfast because the service in the MDR is very bad at best, but they do offer a delicious filet and eggs if you are willing to wait for it. We choose the lunch buffet every day and the selections were always plentiful and mostly all were good. I major thumbs up to the deli area, the pastrami is actually fantastic! Read more