This was the second of our back to back cruises as my wife and I celebrated our honeymoon aboard the Carnival Destiny. I wrote two separate reviews to chronicle our adventures. Sailing date was January 17th, 2013.

Day One -- Embarkation Day. As we were cruising back to back we had special processing and were off of the ship for perhaps fifteen minutes. When we returned to our stateroom we were very surprised to see that the Destiny's Hotel Director had dropped off a bottle of champagne with his compliments. Nothing like starting a cruise off in this manner!

Following the muster drill and prior to departure the captain came on the public address system to advise guests of a mechanical problem with the aft thrusters. The Destiny would only be able to go to ports with tug boats. Consequently we would not be going to Cozumel but would be going to Nassau instead. While a bit of a disappointment, we had never seen Nassau and were excited about going there. Guests had the option of departing with a full refund or receiving a fifty dollar onboard credit. We weren't going anywhere and made use of the credit. Perhaps two hundred people disembarked -- their loss! Read more