Carnival has undertaken a huge top to bottom review of operations designed to slash costs and increase revenue and called it Carnival Funship 2.0. It has been a failure on a massive scale with multiple ships breaking down and trashing Carnival's reputation. The changes to onboard operations are also miserable failures.

First, if you enjoy having a nice, leisurely sit down meal rather than fending for yourself at the buffet, you will be out of luck 1/2 the time. During embarkation, we were directed to the buffet and told it wasn't possible to enjoy lunch at a sit down restaurant unlike other cruise ships on embarkation day.

After lunch, I went to my stateroom to take a shower. The shampoo was horrible. I had to rise my hair 3X before my hair felt clean and my wife told me she had to shampoo her hair 6X before her hair felt clean. I think Carnival should splurge a little and buy some VO5 shampoo for the shower instead of the crap they bought from the lowest bidder. Read more