I'll start from the very beginning. Our flight left Orlando on time at around 10:45am and the was a very smooth flight. We were given a drink and pretzels and they came back around offering seconds, which we took. It was a 2.5 hour flight there. When we arrived at the San Juan airport, we just followed the signs down to baggage, to collect our luggage. There were Carnival porters there, giving us stubs to get on the bus when it arrived, since we pre-paid for transfers. It didn't take long for a bus to arrive, which we boarded, for a 10 minute ride to the port terminal.

The port terminal was a breeze to get through, wasn't too busy for 2:45pm. We checked in with the terminal, giving them our passports, credit card and fun pass and we were on our way to find our room. Our room was on the Panorama deck, one floor above the Lido deck and one below the Spa deck, room # 1054. Our room steward quickly found us to introduce himself and make sure everything was at hand we needed. We hardly saw him the rest of the trip, but he somehow made sure everything was clean and tidy for us.

The ship had a very unique layout. I really liked the "theater" style deck for the movies. In the center was a huge twisty slide, 2 pools and 2 jacuzzi's. I don't have any complaints about it. The food selection wasn't bad. You had 2 hot bars outside by the pools on the Lido deck. Then inside was the buffet, with seating upstairs and downstairs. I hardly saw anyone go upstairs. Then the pizza bar was out back on the other side of the hot dog/hamburger bar, with ice cream and drink bar across from them. The casino was very cold, so take a jacket in there. The dining room was also cold, but not too bad. Our waiter, Elmer, was an absolute trip!!!! He was very humorous and entertaining!!! Read more