This past November, I did a Carnival cruise with 15 other people. It was out of Puerto Rico and went to St. Thomas, St. Maarten, St. Kitts, Bermuda and St. Lucia. It was a great cruise, we had a lot of fun. What I loved about Carnival was there was no pay restaurants, so we ate in the dining room every night just about. They did have a drink package you can buy, but limit the number of drinks you can have per day on it, and the drinks are smaller than if you were to buy ones at the bar. It definitely must have helped with the 'partiers' because we didn't see anyone on the cruise ridiculously drunk. I've heard horror stories, but our Carnival cruise was nice. The staff were GREAT, so funny and friendly. We only had 1 day at sea our whole cruise, so maybe people were not drinking because they were always gearing up for the next day at another port. Im telling you we were gung-ho for the first 4 days, maxing our energy out, by the last 2 ports, we barely got off the ship! LOL Anyways, it was a great cruise. The dining room food was absolutely top of the line, but the buffet food was just ok. The ship was colorful and open and there were plenty of 'adult only' areas to get away.
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