This was our honeymoon trip and I have to say that both my husband and I were extremely disappointed in Carnival, in general. Though there were some highlights, we have decided to not sail with Carnival ever again. This was our second cruise, but our first with Carnival. We had an excellent time on our first cruise (with RCI) and was looking forward to a similar experience with Carnival. We were wrong.

EMBARKATION: Total chaos. We dropped off our luggage and were then told to go have a seat to get checked in. We were told to sit as close to the front as possible as that is how they would begin checking people in. As we sat, we watched countless people go get in line--some were checked in, some were told to go have a seat. After about 1/2 an hour, more and more people were getting in line and being checked in--even though we had followed our original orders to have a seat and wait to be checked in. Eventually, we got to the line and checked in. This checking-in process was being completed by TWO people. I'm not sure how many passengers had to check in (I'm guessing at least 2500), and they had TWO people checking in? This just did not make sense to us. After we checked in, we were told, once again, to have a seat and then we would be allowed to get on the ship in a little while. Luckily, the process of actually getting onto the ship was a lot quicker & smoother than their checking in process. It seemed that all of the employees at the pier doing the check in procedures were not organized and did not seem to know what was going on--they were definitely not on the same page.

SHIP'S APPEARANCE: The ship's interior was beautiful. The themes of each room and/or lounge was very detailed and it seemed like I was always finding something "new" to look at. Read more