This was our fifth cruise on Carnival and our 10th overall. We were on an 8 day Eastern Caribbean itinerary during the week of July 20, 2013. Our ports were St Thomas, Antigua, Tortola, and Nassau. We left from Miami on Saturday afternoon.

Passengers: 4700 on our sailing. There were many young families and young couples as usual on Carnival. This is a young people-family cruise. There were older people on this cruise but maybe 15% of the ship. Not like Celebrity where the average age is 50 plus. If you do not like young people and kids with lots of go, go, go----then find another cruise, you will not be happy regardless of price.

On Board Info: There were almost no announcements made. This is a huge change from the Carnival of just a few years ago. When on the Dream in 2010 the announcements were constant and even woke you up in the morning. That is all gone. You get an occasional announcement in the hall----much better than before. The Cruise Director Butch also does a morning show on sea days which is put on video in the stateroom. There are no in cabin announcements not even on the day of disembarkation. Read more