CARNIVAL VALOR 4/16 to 4/23 WESTERN CARIBBEAN
Embarkation- We booked through Carnivals PVP (Personal Vacation Planner) and used the Fly Away Program and got our flight plans 1 month before sailing. They had half of us arriving into Miami at 1:30 and the other into Ft. Lauderdale at 12:00 so the Miami crew arrived at port around 2, not long after the Ft. Lauderdale crew. Since we arrived so late it only took us about a half our to get through all the check-ins and were right on board. It was nice that it was quick but I would have rather arrived earlier and waited in more lines in order to get on board earlier in the day. Rosies closed for lunch at 3pm so we were rushed at getting our lunch.
A NOTE ABOUT THE FLY AWAY PROGRAM DO NOT book your flights through Carnival. We booked the whole trip about 9 months in advance and could have found pretty decent prices at that point on flights. Instead, we were stuck with whatever Carnival gave us, which were HORRIBLE. Like I said, our group flew out of two different cities so we both had different experiences. Group 1 had to wait 12 hours Sunday at the airport the day we went home (since they kick everyone off the boat so early). The other group had to spend that Sunday in Miami and fly out the next morning, missing yet another day of school/work for no good reason. That was the most horrible part of the trip. If I ever do it again, I will never let Carnival pick my flights& it would have been worth it to pay more and book them myself and get a good flight schedule. When we tried changing our flights thru carnival, they said there was nothing they could do for us, which I highly doubt seeing as one of the previous post-ers said they changed theirs for her.