My Husband and I sailed on the Carnival Victory embarking in New York. We started planning this trip in May 2006, we used a Carnival PVP who was very helpful and accessible. We would use him again. oUr destinations were Boston, Portland, St. John, NB and Halifax, N.S.

This is the Good, bad and in-between, in my honest opinion.

We decided to use the Carnival transport from LaGuardia to the ship and back again. Although it was somewhat expensive at $70.00 per person we thought that this would be the most efficient way to get to the pier. We made a mistake! We flew out of Chicago at 7:00 a.m., arriving in NYC at 10:30 a.m.. We grabbed our luggage and went in search of a Carnival Representative. We found the rep that was handling staff for the ship and he told us that the passenger rep would be there shortly. We waited around the Airport transportation desk for about 45 minutes before the Carnival rep showed up. Short story, we were ready to go at 11:15 a.m. but we did not board a bus until 2:45 p.m. There were 22 passengers waiting all that time. When the Carnival Rep finally located a bus we were grouped with passengers from another cruise line. All the luggage was mixed and we finally had to walk about a block back to where the Victory was loading. Bottom line we waited 3 1/2 hours at the airport. We will never use Carnival transport services again. Read more