We cruise on Oct. 8th, with a group of 10. My Family, My Mother, and My Sister and her family. This was our fourth Carnival Cruise.

We drove by personal car to the Port of Tampa, since we live about 15 minutes away. When we got to the terminal, we got split up and My car got spot checked.. Not a very sophisticated way of spot checking, but he was a security guard. So, of course we got separated from the rest of our party, due to them checking our passports and ID?? Whatever. We finally got our luggage out and parked.

We made our way to the Check in counter which took all of 5 minutes, great job to them, they were pushing people through like crazy. We went to sit down until our boarding number was called, which was about 10 minutes. Read more