Fun Week at Sea!

Very easy! I got there a little bit earlier than my time (I was with half of my group who had a slightly earlier time) and they let me embark with them. It was simple and easy.

Overall, great food on the ship. There was one night where they didn't have any non-dairy desserts on the menu other than fruit. They were able to make a last minute accommodation but it would have been nice to have another option. Also, I was waiting to have waffles or pancakes until the last day at sea (they had them on the days in which we were in Grand Turk & Amber Cove). All that was available on the last day at sea was the ricotta pancakes (which I couldn't eat) & the 12 hr french toast (which a friend tried earlier in the trip & didn't like). I wished that the waffles/pancakes were available on the last sea day. Other than that everything else was great. Favorites: The turkey sandwiches on pretzel bun @ deli were amazing! Pasta at the pasta place was great! Chia Seed pudding in the dining hall was a favorite. Also the drinks on the ship were all great! Loved the shots at dinner - it was really fun. One of my favorite drinks was the Agave Pineapple Tea @ the Tequila Bar.

Trivia Nights (90's & Country), Karaoke, Art Auction, Country Night @ Limelight Lounge, Serenity Deck. They were all very enjoyable (especially the Karaoke, Serenity deck & country night) except the 90's "Trivia Night" and the Art Auction were not. The 90's trivia night in the Sunrise Lobby was not really trivia AT ALL. It was who could sing the song the loudest/competition between two sides of the lobby. We were pretty disappointed as this was not trivia. Also, the art auction was interesting but they said it would be an hour/hour & 15 mins and it ended up being over 2 hours. A lot of people left early and my friends won a mystery prize & a grand prize on the wheel before hand and it ended up being a lanyard and an extra small print. It was a big waste of time on our last day on the ship. Also, they didn't do any of the raffles until about an hour and half into the auction.

We didn't go to any stage shows. The violinists in the sunrise lobby were amazing. The DJ's were great.

The child in our group was a part of the kids club and I often went up with her & her parents to drop her off. The staff was great and the facilities looked so cute. I wish there had been more toys for the little ones. However, loved seeing the drawings/art she came back with and the face paint (which she loved). The check in staff person on the first day didn't really seem as knowledgeable about how things worked in the actual rooms (I forget the specific example, sorry). The other times, it was a different person and she was really great. Also, the kids movies on the big screen on the lido deck were really fun.

Our room steward Richard was so amazing. he really helped us out with a bathroom situation and was very approachable & friendly when we would see him throughout the halls. We loved our waiters in the dining room - Randolf (he was the best!! He was so kind, really took care of us - especially those in the group with eating restrictions and he was just so personable & nice), Shervon (he was really great too) & Moises were all so helpful. I also really appreciated the guy who came to separate our beds on the first night. We had asked for 2 twins and not 1 king bed. It was not taken care of when we arrived. We called and they said they would come during the muster drill to take care of it. No one came. So we had to call at 11:00 at night! This guy came right out and took care of the beds. He was very kind and I enjoyed talking with him. He made the experience of this a little easier. (I wish I remembered his name!). Everyone else on the ship was really helpful, except for the people who were running the clearance sale. I still don't think there was a piece of jewelry that was priced right and the girl was trying to convince me it was and had kind of an attitude about it. It had a printed price with a barcode on the inside and nothing else (no red strike through any part of the tag), so I thought the printed price was the original price. She said it was the sale price and pointed towards another style of the item with a tag on the outside of the package that had a much higher price. She was trying to tell me that the price on the inside of the package (with the barcode) was the sale price. But, I still don't understand how all the items had two prices and the one with the actual barcode was the sale price. It still doesn't make sense to me. Especially since everything else on the whole table had red handwritten prices on it. I didn't like my interaction with her at all. Lastly, Henrique at Carnival Adventures really took care of us. We got screwed over on our Grand Turk excursion and we really felt like he had our backs in a not great situation. We really appreciated his help.

Everything was pretty great in the cabin. We did have an issue with our toliet a couple times towards the end of the trip. The button to flush wouldn't even work or you would press it and 5 minutes later it would flush. Other than that everything was great. One thing we did was actually move the end tables to different positions in the room so that we could separate the beds a little farther so that there was more space for us in our cabin.

Very easy! I disembarked with my Everglades Excursion group and they helped us off the boat and into the customs line. The line was LONG by the time we got there but it was moving pretty quickly. We waited about 45 mins (maybe?) to get thru the line but there wasn't a lot of just standing still.