If you are looking for a great family cruise for a family or for your bored text happy teenagers, then book this carnival cruise today! We wanted to see the caribbean, and experience the islands, and this cruise delivers. My Wife and I cruised in 2001 on another cruise line, and were satisfied, but now we cruised on Carnival and will be back with Carnival. We loved it!

If you love to do excursions, or try new things/see new beaches/ islands, go to Carnival.com and book this cruise. We are a family of 5, 3 older teenagers, who like to do and see things, so this cruise delivered for them and us.

We took other suggestions and booked the cheapest room, and we had all 5 of us in one room. The savings was worth it, as we were 4 steps from the forward part of the ship, and could see sunsets, and sunrises, or ports at any time.  We were inside and had four beds, two of them bunks. My kids will tell you my snoring was not worth having one room, but budgets are budgets, and we decided to spend $1200 on excursions,  and not having 5 more feet in our room, or a 2 foot balcony was never a loss for us. It proved a great move, as we saved over $1200 on one room versus two. The excursions and activities are great, and have you out of your room all of the time. So we spent the savings on shore excursions. Read more