There were 21 of us who had booked a group cruise through Carnival's Group department. Overall, we had excellent service from this department. We were 15 adults and 6 children under 10 years of age. This was our family dream reunion cruise and most of our children and grandchildren were able to join us. Other than the effects of Hurricane Wilma and the change to Galveston from New Orleans, we were not disappointed.

Pre Cruise & Embarkation: Most of us came in one day early, rented Enterprise cars & stayed at the Holiday Inn on the Beach. Others flew into Hobby the day of the cruise & hired a limousine to get to the ship. Embarkation was easy and efficient. We were on the ship in probably 30 minutes.

Our cabins: Our sons & DIL's who had 3 children each had cabins 2300/2304 and 2332/2336. The parents were in one room and a door opened to the children's room with 3 beds. Their steward made a different towel animal for each room each night. He left large cookies with M&M's for the children. They were very pleased with the rooms. Two of us had 9A's. Our daughter's room was 8449 and was very spacious. Ours was smaller & the balcony was unbelievably super long. All the other rooms, insides and outsides had couches. Our 9A's didn't & that was disappointing especially for the added price we paid for the rooms. Read more