Carnival Ecstasy Review
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My friend and I flew into Orlando Airport on the first flight the morning of our cruise. Everything was a breeze. We paid for the transfers through Carnival so as soon as we got out luggage and located the Carnival desk, we jumped on the bus. We arrived at Port Canaveral around noon and it took us no time to get on the ship. There was a line but not very long and they had all the stations open so we moved along with ease.
I noticed that this ship was a smaller one than what I've been on before. It was still nice and it's always exciting to make that first step on the ship and walk into the center atrium. We headed to the buffet and it took up some time to figure out what was where. Once we did, we grabbed a table and ate. Our cabin was in the center of the ship. We loved that because we were right on deck 7 which was the same level where we entered onto the ship right down the hall from the atrium. We were close enough to the atrium to get to what we wanted with ease but far enough to avoid any noise. Our cabin was midship so we barely felt any rocking. Sometime we weren't sure if we were moving or not. We had a window so we just looked out there. I've had a balcony before but my friend had never been on a cruise before and I knew she wouldn't have wanted to stay in the room. Glad I didn't get a balcony this time. We were only in our cabin to sleep and change clothes.
I didn't particularly care for the way they did the safety drill this time. Normally, you find your muster station, and they take care of the whole drill right there. This time they had us go to the casino area where we sat and got told a bunch of instructions then they had us go to our muster stations where we had to stand there which seemed just as long as if we were to have to stand there the entire time. Seemed like a lot more confusion to me but once it was done, it was done. We got our drinks and headed up to the lido deck for the sail off. Of course, the party had started with people in the pool and all over the lido deck. It was much smaller than what I'm use to but I was still glad to be sailing.