Below I posted a summary review of our trip on the maiden voyage of the Inspiration from the New Orleans port. experience.

Embarkation - You first must realize that this was the first time the Inspiration had left from the New Orleans port. My wife and I arrived at 1:15 pm only to find out from one of the porters that our names were not on the manifest. We carried our luggage to the terminal and I found a Carnival employee who was very helpful and found out our cabin assignment so we could get our luggage picked up. I had booked an inside room and was upgraded to an outside room with two portholes. The terminal was a little overwhelmed by all of the passengers. The New Orleans port had never handled a ship this big or this many passengers. Considering that, I thought they handled it well. After boarding the ship, my wife and I spent the next couple of hours just looking around the ship and becoming acquainted with the surroundings. This is a big ship and it was very clean.

Two Sea Days - We had two sea days until we were to port at Montego Bay. Some folks don't like sea days buy we loved it! The Lido deck and the casino and being able to sleep in after dancing all night was great!! We had requested the late seating but were assigned early seating. Before going to dinner on Sunday night we stopped by and spoke with the Maitre'D, Peter. We put our name on the waiting list and when we got back to our cabin after dinner there was a note saying we had been changed to the late seating!! This was great! We had great dining table and met some wonderful people and our service was splendid. We did luck out because the table we were seated at was a VIP table (I can't tell you why for obvious reasons) but we received some nice perks. The VIP at our table was staying in one of the Owners Suites and we were invited to go see the suite and it was unbelievable!!! Read more