The week before we took our cruise on the Carnival Elation, we made the mistake of reading the reviews on here and were suddenly scared to death that we had burned our vacation on a potentially horrible experience. After our five days aboard, our only question is what everybody's problem was.
Maybe it's because we don't go out to eat all the time and when we travel we don't stay at the Ritz, but we had an AMAZING trip that more than met every pre-review reading expectation we had.
The staff was friendly and helpful, we were certainly never wanting for food or drinks and we were never short on things to do.
Not huge, but even with four people in it, never really felt crowded. Carpet a little dated, but nothing catastrophic. We didn't really spend any time there unless we were asleep.