This was my wife and my second cruise (we had previously taken a Princess Caribbean cruise in January 2008). We travel several times per year, but are relatively new to cruises.
Our lodging and travel to our port of embarkation and from our port of debarkation was not arranged by the Carnival.
Our entry onto the ship and the handling of bags were accomplished in a very efficient and ...
This was our 2nd trip on the Carnival Spirit, and our third and likely last trip with Carnival. We'd had a good experience on the Spirit in Hawaii in 2004, a bad one on the Jubilee in the Caribbean during Christmas 2003/2004 and now a bad one on the Spirit.
This will be a review (rant?) about the shipboard experience. The ports of call we visited were good, even if we were late getting to them, ...