Sailed on the Carnival Paradise on 4/25/13. This was our 3rd cruise on the Paradise in the past 12 months. Let me start by saying we booked this cruise before Carnival had their ship problems in the gulf. They dropped the price to fill this ship and would not drop our fare to meet the current price. Not a good policy or the way to treat your Platinum cruisers.
Embarkation was a breeze. Flew into Tampa morning of the cruise, cabbed to terminal and was on board in about 1 hour total time from plane touchdown.
We chose the same cabin on the upper deck that we had previously used. We like this location in relationship to the lido, the theater, the dining room , and the casino.The cabin was in good shape and to reiterate this ship has the best sized showers we have experienced. The cabin steward had just got on board that day replacing the steward we had had last time on board. He was an experienced person and was very good.