This was my second cruise in two years with Carnival, first was to Caribbean and this one was to Canada - Saint John, NB and Halifax, NS.
The cruise left and returned to New York. We travelled from Philadelphia via van service to NY the same day, which took about 2 hours including a 15 minute pit stop.
On this cruise I traveled with 3 childhood girlfriends and we all celebrated our 50th birthdays this year. Two of them cruised on Carnival before.