Following is my review of our cruise on the Carnival Inspiration which departed on 1/26 from Tampa.
Our first observation was that the Tampa port is very nice. Easy to enter and get around in, and very convenient and clean. Channelside marketplace at the port was great, and we had a nice dinner at Stumps the night before. We moved very quickly through the embarkation process and were onboard in a little over an hour. They seemed to be MUCH more organized here verses Miami.
We have been on 2 cruises prior to this, on the Destiny and the Triumph, so we were excited to experience a new style of ship. Our first impression was that it was considerably smaller than the Destiny class (which it is by 30,000 gross tons), but it really felt it to us. That was not bad, just our