My wife and I just got back from the December 7th, Victory sailing. It was our 3rd cruise and first on Carnival. We went with our 11 & 13 year old daughters. It was their first cruise.

We flew into San Juan on Saturday and stayed at the Embassy Suites. It was clean and more than we really needed. The Outback in the lobby was convenient for dinner and the free morning breakfast was OK.

We took a cab to the port @ noon. We got through the check in process pretty quickly but were unable to board the ship. They told use that due to a "higher than normal" incidence of illness on the previous cruise they were doing additional cleaning and no one could board until 3:30PM. Boarding then became a mess and we got on about 4:30 PM. Read more