My mother, my daughter and I booked a cruise with carnival Pride from Baltimore on Feb. 20th. It is a well priced cruise, but I got the Vista Suite, wrap around balcony and it cost me good money, well over 3 grand. Embarkation was a breeze,V.I.P., and even the ship was late and we were not the first to arrive at the terminal, we were the first to embark. We got a great table at the lido deck, by the way the windows were very dirty, like other people said, and we waited for our rooms to be ready. The cabin was the best. Huge,with living room, walk-in closet, bedroom with 2 ceiling to floor windows and 2 plat screen t.v. but the DVD connection did not worked and they never fixed the entire week. I carry my DVDs and all these movies for nothing, and as you will read later we did need them as we spend days in the room. The balcony was out of this world, huge with 2 sets of chairs and tables and 2 stretchers to lay down.

I got all my suitcases but one, and I knew why not, and I open them. In 10 minutes, everything was in the walk-in closet and the room was neat with nothing in the open, loved it. Around 5 o'clock I start looking for my suitcase. I had a 325 mil bottle of rum inside and I was sure that they found it. It was a very small bottle, few drinks, but that was all I had. 3 hours later and after I walked 3 times from my room at the end of the ship to the guest service area in the frond of the ship, they finally found my suitcase. Then Suuan, the security guy, asked me to open my suitcase right there, in front of all those people who were hanging at the main lobby deck 2 (bar, lobby, guest service area).

I thought that he was jocking, but he was serious. Of course I refuse and asked for a private area to open my suitcase. I felt like a criminal that was caught stealing a bank. Bad judgement from his part. And there was also a lady with him, like an officer, I thought I am going to JAIL!! After a couple of minutes "here, nor here" he gave in and took me to a privet area were I open the suitcase and removed the bottle. I think he looked disappointed, too small of a bottle for such a great deal!! Read more