My wife and I decided to take a cruise for our honeymoon as we had never taken one and were both told be several people that we would enjoy it. I did a lot of research into cruise lines, ports of call, etc. in determining which cruise to take. We settled on Carnival as we didn't have an extravagant amount of money to spend but wanted a very nice room. We settled on the July 11, 2010 sailing of the Carnival Valor to the Western Caribbean. We were also looking at the Mexican Riviera cruise out of California, but we would have had to have gone with a lower grade room because that cruise was more costly at the time we wanted to sail and because the flight from Chicago to California was more expensive than from Chicago to Miami. We settled on room 7440, which is a Premium Vista Balcony room. More on that later.

A few things first:

Yes, I understand that this review is many months past the date we sailed. However, in the vast amounts of research to which I cited above, I used many reviews from this site, so I feel it is my duty to write one myself. Moreover, a week after we got back my wife and I moved across country where I began law school, so I haven't had tons of time. Read more