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Carnival Elation Review

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Carnival Elation

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Willsot
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jan 1970

We flew to LAX from Minneapolis on Saturday, arriving by 9:00 a.m. We rented a car and spent the day driving up the coast. We stayed overnight at the San Pedro Hilton, an excellent hotel and location not far from the cruise departure dock (complimentary hotel shuttle to the pier on Sunday). (Background - 52 and 50, both professionals, celebrating our 30th anniversary with our second cruise, first time on Carnival).

Embarkation - The hotel shuttle dropped us at the pier sometime after 11:30 a.m. The lines were already very long, but the only wait we had was for obtaining a porter to take our luggage. After dropping the luggage and tipping the porter, a Carnival representative directed us to wait in the area directly in front of the front entrance. He said that we would be admitted just after the passengers with special needs. I would estimate we stood maybe 5 minutes, then were ushered in. Just inside the main entrance there was a conference table set up to check in those of us in category 11 and 12 cabins ("Skippers Club"). In my opinion, this was one of the greatest advantages of paying more for these categories. While we were signing for our sign and sail cards, they began letting in the long outside lines. We went directly from the check-in table to the waiting area chairs. When boarding began, we were among the first dozen or so people to go through the photo station and on to the ship. I don't think it was more than 30 minutes from the time we got out of the hotel shuttle to the time we walked up the gangplank.

Cabin - We were in cabin V7 on the Verandah deck. The mini-suite seemed to be about the same size as outside standard rooms but was a little more nicely designed, with a real queen-size bed and a small balcony. The nice thing about the balcony was just being able to open the door, latch it and leave it open when we wanted to just stand on the balcony or let the sea air and sounds of the waves into our cabin. There were numerous bar and wine glasses, a mini-refrigerator, TV with VCR (I brought a few VHS tapes). Our room steward Winni (Winnifredo) did an excellent job all week. We've heard the comments about there being more motion on the higher decks and this seems to be accurate, but we really liked the Verandah deck. There are far fewer cabins than on the lower decks and it seemed very easy and convenient to move back and forth from the cabin to other locations, especially to the outside Lido deck. We also noticed fewer children on this deck.

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