I traveled October 3-10 on the Carnival Valor's Western Caribbean cruise from Miami and had the TIME OF MY LIFE! I was traveling with a group of individuals from my hometown who were all roughly in the same age group as me. We had many seasoned travelers and a few first-timers.
While the opportunity existed, I suppose, to sit back and relax on this ship we chose to avail ourselves of many of the games, activities, etc. on the ship. It was FABULOUS. I couldn't wait to get up each morning and see what we were going to be doing.
Rough seas did make tender ports difficult and I heard that they quit tendering sometime around noon to Grand Cayman.
Our cabin was near an elevator, which was sometimes handy. Next time I'd want to be on the OTHER end of the ship, though, closer to the lido deck rather than the adult-only area.
Easiest way to get across the ship from this room seemed to be go up the elevator to the Lido deck, walk shorter distance to other side, take elevator back down.
Plenty of storage in the room, nice view from the window, not a lot of noise.