I must say I was disappointed with the lack of things to do and the quality of the food on board. I am going to try to leave as thorough of a review as possible since I really wish I had known what I know now before going. A word of caution though don't bother with reading the reviews on Carnival's actual website. I tried to leave my review there and listed my rating as 1 star. Every time I tried to submit the review, I kept getting an error saying I didn't have the rights to write on the server. Being a web designer and computer support person, something seemed fishy to me so I changed my review title to say, please ignore the stars, carnival won't let me leave 1 star. I then left my negative review but gave the review 5 stars and viola I could leave my review just fine. So they are controlling the amount of negative reviews you can leave on their site.

The Ship:

Getting onto the ship was a pretty painless process, but once on the ship finding your room and getting there was not a lot of fun. No one guided you on where to go and it was a cluster with people looming around the elevators not realizing there were more down the way and it taking over a half an hour just to get on an elevator as they are extremely slow. Also the setup for the main glass elevators near your entrance onto the ship is horrid. You can't tell what elevators are doing what. The area in front of the glass elevators doesn't allow you to see all the elevators at once and the elevators didn't make a noise when arriving so you didn't know if an elevator had even arrived without pacing up and down in front of all of them. This compacted with the fact that people that weren't in line were just coming in from other sides and cutting everyone off just made it a nightmare. We learned to avoid these elevators all together. The main painting scheme seems to be classic renaissance. Normally a nice theme, but when you have a bunch of kids and drunk people on a cruise it's not really the best idea in the world. Half of the walls in the elevators had people with their nipples scratched out or drawings of liquid shooting from breasts, which sort of kills the whole classiness idea and just makes everything looks trashy. The bathrooms were for the most part kept pretty clean. A warning though if you have someone that is not very strong or is feeble, someone should accompany them to the restroom. The doors an all the stalls are EXTREMELY heavy and hard to open. I think that was by far the biggest topic in every bathroom for the entire cruise. I don't know why it is, but they are super heavy. People kept thinking doors were locked when they weren't because of this. You can tell this ship has seen her better days. The carpeting is frayed and faded in a lot of places, and she could really use a facelift. Read more