My husband and I are in our late 30's and went on the November 10, 2007 sailing of the Eastern Caribbean with ports of call being Half Moon Cay, St. Thomas, San Juan and Grand Turk. This was our second time sailing with Carnival, which is the only cruise line we have sailed so far.

We flew from Seattle to West Palm Beach on Delta Airlines arriving at 9:30 am and rented a car from Alamo to drive to Miami. It's about an hour drive from West Palm Beach to Miami. We dropped off the car at the Alamo location near the Miami airport and the Alamo shuttle took us directly to the Miami cruise ship terminal for free.

We were happy to see the new Carnival terminal as last year we boarded the ship through the old and very crowded terminal. The new one is much nicer and seemed to be much more organized. We had completed our Fun Pass already, which sped up the check in process. There was a large line up right when we entered the terminal, which was the security check, and then we headed into the second long line up for checking in. The whole process to get on the ship took us about an hour. Read more