My girlfriend and I sailed on the 4/25 - 5/2 sailing of the Carnival Valor. Neither of us had sailed this ship before, but both of us have sailed on Carnival before, so we knew what to expect.
Embarkation was a breeze! We live in Orlando, so we merely drove to Miami and made it in just over 3 hours. We turned our bags over to the porters at 9:22 am. We boarded the ship at 11 am and had lunch on the Lido deck.
We were allowed into our stateroom at 1:30 pm and found it to be most comfortable.
We were in cabin 1205. The bed was extremely comfortable. The shower did not drain well, but other than that, we had no problems with the cabin.