Chose this ship due to great price with OBC by both Carnival and travel agent. We liked the itinerary. Ft. Lauderdale was only a 2+ hour drive from our home in Florida. Used a par-n-ride service and was very pleased.

Embarkation was a bit hectic. My wife needed a wheel chair due to mobility issues and had to walk over a block to where this service was available. Once there, had to be put on a waiting list. Carnival knew from registration with travel agent that this service was needed. Apparently, it was either ignored and just mouth service. Once the chair was available, we has a smooth transition through check in. We were wheeled to where the elevator was and at that point had to give up the wheel chair only to wait for another one from that point to on the ship. Never experienced this before. Serviced no purpose and overall delayed our getting aboard.

Debarkation was a bit of a challenge. We are accustomed to having our disembarkation luggage tags delivered to our cabin by housekeeping. This trip, it was not done. Our cabin steward also failed to give us the FunTimes flier which had a debarkation seminar. That day, by the time I found out about the debarkation procedure, the luggage tags (we had to get them ourselves) for early disembarkation were all gone. Had to get #14 which was a late disembarkation time. Cheated by cutting off the 1 and our luggage was in #4. Read more