My wife and I took our first cruise without kids. We have had success with Carnival in the past and booked on the Destiny for a 5 night Eastern Caribbean. Grand Cayman and Ocho Rios, Jamaica as our ports of call. Over-all, this is just a tired ship and it shows. It's scheduled for an over-haul. However, the ship was clean and well cared for. In a nutshell, Carnival needs to update its formula for its passenger agenda and things like its menus if it wants to attract repeat customers. It was too much a repeat of our past cruises on board a Carnival cruise, the last of which was last March. For more specifics, read below:

EMBARKATION: At the Port of Miami. WOW! Got there at noon. We had everything in terms of paper work ready to go. We were ON BOARD in about 20 minutes after entering the terminal. WELL DONE!

FIRST DAY ABOARD: It is always interesting getting used to a new ship. Since the Destiny is a near carbon copy of the Ecstasy, we knew our way around immediately, since we were on the latter last March. Allegedly, the Destiny is the only ship of its class, but you could not tell the difference. Our stateroom was ready very quickly and so we were able to jump right into the cruise style of living quickly. Again, well done, Carnival! Read more