Alrighty folks, here it is. Everyone elses reviews helped me to plan our cruise and had some very useful tips, so I hope that we can return the favor. My husband and I sailed on the Carnival Conquest around the Western Caribbean in a group of 10 friends (ages ranging from 7 years old upwards to 50 ish maybe. My husband and I are both 27 and had 2 similar aged friends that we were with.

We live in the DFW area of Texas and so we flew from DFW to Houston where our friends live. Unfortunately the day before our cruise, we got into a car wreck (rammed from behind by an idiotic woman on her cell phone who was not paying attention...). Thankfully no serious injuries, except for our friend's truck...it looked a little sad :(

We drove from Houston to Galveston the next morning and got in line about 12.45pm ish. Went through the first security point then got inside the terminal building and seen a huge long line. seen a sign for non-US citizens and as I am a Green card holder (moved from Northern Ireland 3 years ago), we migrated towards the desk indicated. In less than 3 minutes we were boarding the ship. That was awesome skipping that line!!! Read more