Arrival Day
After all the waiting it was finally time to get out of town to Miami and start relaxing! We flew out in the afternoon on friday so we could have a couple days in Miami before our Cruise on Sunday. We looked at the pre cruise stays on Carnival but they just seemed overpriced. We settled into Hampton Inn and Suites in Miami. We got a Suite for the same price carnival wanted for a regular room at a ok hotel. We flew into FT Lauderdale because tickets were about $300 cheaper but getting from the airport there to Miami looked like it was going to cost about $50 bucks. We would have had to take the Super Shuttle and it stops at every freakin hotel. We found a pretty cool solution, it was just my wife, no kids or anyone extra. We decided to take the light rail. A free shuttle takes you from the airport to the rail, which tool 5 minutes to find and 5 minutes to get out of the airport to the rail station. So for $3.75 each we took the rail. It was comfortable and in about 20 minutes we were at Miami airport where we found our free shuttle to our hotel. It wasn't bad all.
Embarkation
Cabin was nice, room was awerage size, the bed and pillows were a lot more comfortable than we had on the Pride last year. Refrigerator wasn't all that cold. Normal cabin.