Hello all! The fact that you are on here reading reviews is a great step toward selecting the best cruise for you and enjoying your experience. I am a 31 year old who has cruised 7 times in the past. All of my previous cruises were 7 night voyages. My girlfriend (27) was on her first cruise. I apologize for the delay in writing this, as now I have forgotten some of the details.

We drove from Las Vegas on the day of the trip. If possible, always try to get to the port a day early just to avoid any issues. We used my girlfriend's car, and about a week after the trip, her fuel pump died and it took a couple days to fix. Had that happened on our drive out there, we would have been in big trouble. Nonetheless, with money being an issue for everyone, I'm not sure we would have done it differently in the future, nor would we force that idea onto someone else. We arrived in plenty of time (around 1pm, I think) and were on the ship within about 20 minutes.

I thought the ship was in pretty good condition and was actually pleasantly surprised that a ship this nice would be used for 4 and 5 day voyages. I won't go into too many details here as you can easily find ship maps on carnival.com and videos on youtube, but I will just leave it with saying we had no complaints about the ship and found many things to do. Read more