Carnival Fascination Review
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Background Info - It's are 4th Cruise with Carnival, and our first time to the Bahamas (Freeport & Nassau), as well as our first short itinerary (4-day). We've enjoyed all of our prior Carnival Cruises and when booking we tend to find that Carnival has the best value price-wise for the destinations/itinerary.
Travel to the Embarkation Port - We drove roughly 7 hours from NC to Jacksonville and parked at an Airport parking facility. It was a short shuttle ride from the Airport/Parking to the Port. Jacksonville Port parking was $15/day (steep!) and they even had drop-off fees for shuttles, etc.
Embarkation - at Jacksonville, Embarkation was by far the quickest and easiest we've ever gone through which was very nice.
Cabin Review
Ocean View
M65 - Ocean View, Main Floor, Aft
Window is a square window, unobstructed.
Closet has 3 doors - 1st houses the safe and two shelf spaces, 2nd has hanging space and a bottom shelf, 3rd has hanging space and bottom shelf.
Bathroom - small, but good layout (linear) with sink across from door, toilet and towels to the left, shower to the right.
Bed(s) - You can have 4 singles in this room or a king with 2 stow-away beds (which we did). It was the first time we had the stowaway bunk-beds in a room, and I was nervous before the cruise about the space, but it became a non-issue. The stow-away quite neatly, and although jet out a bit into the room, it didn't take away too much space.
TV - small TV in the corner near the window. Sufficient.
Other - Mirror and desk combo was sufficient (3 drawers, a stool, large lighted mirror). 1 chair and two small stool/tables added extra seating.