I would like to start off by saying this is my first review, so be gentle when critiquing.
We sailed out of Galveston on Dec 2, 2013 on Carnival Triumph. We had never been on her before, but this was our third cruise with Carnival. We have cruised on Ecstasy in 2008, and Conquest in 2012, and enjoyed all three of our trips with Carnival.
I will talk about Faster to the Fun in more detail later, but I'll start with this, it was worth it to us.
I upgraded our room from a interior to balcony as a surprise for my wife, and we probably will get a balcony room again.This room, even though it is near the elevator, was EXCELLENT. We didn't hear very much noise from the hall as people came down from Lido to go to their rooms.We LOVED being able to just run up one flight of stairs and grab something and come right back down.The location of the room was over the very last bench in the Restaurant on the port side of the ship, all carpeted. I would book this room again if we sailed Triumph, there was very little noise from upstairs, I never heard any vacuuming, or chairs. 100% would recommend this room to friends or family.