My wife and I have sailed about ten times before this July 12th to 20th trip and we have reached the stage where we will be cruising once or twice a year as long as the good Lord's willing and the creek don't rise. We just returned from an 8 day cruise on Carnival's Miracle. It would understate our disappointment to say that it would take a miracle to get us back on a Carnival ship. It is not that everything was terrible, but in our view, the bad and mediocre far outweighed the good.

My wife has multiple sclerosis and is wheelchair bound. Our cabin was a handicapped accessible cabin on 7 aft, port side. The bedding is comfortable, our cabin keeper, Babb, was competent and friendly and did an outstanding job. Our outside balcony was huge, three times the size of normal. We used it often, because the ship's offerings were not to our liking.

The ship is easy to navigate for those in wheelchairs. We learned that we should wait for an empty elevator (sometimes going in the opposite direction), and my wife could enter and turn around while I held the door open and would be facing forward when we arrived at the floor we wanted. Most people were helpful in this regard, though we always seemed to find a couple of dopes in the passageways who felt it beneath them to move out of my wife's way. She didn't take my advice to run the #*&*^%^ down. Read more