My husband and I are platinum on Carnival, with a total of 35+ cruises across several cruise lines. This is our first cruise on this class ship and got a great last minute deal (2 weeks out) on a cove balcony. There were plenty of platinum and diamond guests on this cruise. (The past guest party was split into two different times and held in the main theater during the last sea day.)

Since this new Carnival ship seems to be getting a bad rap, I thought I would share some of the good...and there was plenty (of course a few negatives, and I'll give those later.)

This was our first cove balcony and we would definitely book again. The only downfall was it was located on deck 2, right below the galley and loud thumps woke us numerous times (we're light sleepers.) Read more