This cruise was a dream vacation for me and the best vacation ever. Ever since I was a kid and my parents cruised to the Caribbean, it has always been my dream to go on a Caribbean cruise alone with my husband. Well on June 4th that dream finally came true. My husband (47) and I (48) sailed on the Carnival Miracle out of NY to San Juan, St. Thomas and Tortola. We went without our kids so grandma watched them. I am going to post this review in categories because I think it will be easier.

Embarkation

We live in NYC so we took a cab over to the ships terminal. We arrived at the terminal at 10:30 and were one of the first ones there. I had a roll call and saw one of my fellow roll callers (Illionoisgal). We struck up a nice chat and it was great to finally meet in person. We were able to do early check in around 11:20. They started boarding us around 12:30. We were on the ship by 12:45. Everything was very organized. As soon as we boarded we made reservations for Nick and Nora's. (more on that later). Our cabin wasn't ready but we were able to drop off our carry-on bags and then off to the Lido we went for lunch. We had burgers and fries which were very good. Read more