You certainly can't beat the price and itinerary. Flew into San Juan a day ahead of departure and stayed at the Caribe Hilton. Boarded the ship at about 2pm and got on in about 10 minutes, thanks to our Platinum status. But at 2pm the boarding process was orderly and efficient and the regular line seemed to have about a 10 minute wait.

Ship is clean, lively and credit as to go to cruise director Felipe. This guy was a bundle of energy and a lot of fun. He's proud of the fact that he's involved in a lot of activites and certainly did not disappoint. The Motown singalong and trivia was a lot of fun.

While I'm singling out people by name, have to mention Jules in Karaoke. Sweet, intelligent and a talented singer who also did a great job as part of the Carnival Legends on the final night at sea. She was very accomodating to my son Jake who might have been a little overexposed in the karaoke lounge, but she nicely balanced his desire to perform for the crowd and the audiences need not to have the same person performing over and over! Only criticism of karaoke is that was held a couple of nights in a ridiculously smokey cigar bar that smelled putrid. Clearly the cigar bar is a money maker for Carnival, otherwise it wouldn't be open. But if I ran things I'd shut down this malodorous cancer hole or put it at the very, very, very back of an open deck. Read more