I booked a 7 night carnival cruise aboard the valor for an April 14th departure. The ports of call were all places both of us wanted to visit: St Thomas, Barbados, St Lucia, St Kitts, and St Martin.

Air: We both work for Delta Air Lines so we flew to SJU the morning of our cruise. We also had read that a cab would take you to the port for $20 plus $1 for each piece of luggage. The cab was comfortable and only about a 20 minute ride. When we arrived at the port, we found a CVS to buy a case of water, grabbed a bite to eat, then checked in. We were able to carry on all our luggage, and the check in process and security clearance took less than 30 minutes. We were onboard at approximately 3pm

I had reserved a balcony stateroom on deck 6, port side using an airline interline rate. The room decor was dated, err, down right ugly, but clean and quite spacious. We had more than enough room to unpack and store all our luggage without putting anything under the bed. The bathroom was large enough for all our products. I brought my own hair dryer and I recommend that other ladies do the same; the one in the room looked pittiful. Read more