Patty and I recently took a cruise on the Carnival Miracle. We took the trip for our one-year wedding anniversary. We did not have the money to take a honeymoon when we first got married, so we decided to wait a year. We knew we wanted to take a cruise for our honeymoon early on. We wanted to avoid the stress that came with planning and carrying out your own trip - with the planes, trains, automobiles, tickets, times, routes, ups, downs, highs, lows, and all that jazz.
It was all worth the wait! We had a wonderful time on the Miracle. It is a great thing to get away from the normal worries and stresses of daily working life. The sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of the trip were exotic and unique. It was an experience we will remember the rest of our lives.
We thought it would be a good idea to write down our experiences for others to read. We had a couple reasons for this. First, we have many friends that are considering a cruise as a possible future vacation. We want to write down our observations, tips and recommendations to help them make informed decisions. Second, there were so many interesting things that happened on the trip, both in port and on the ship, we wanted to write down as many stories as possible so we could remember as much as possible. When you have so many stories to tell to your friends, you wonder if you forgot to tell this or that person a particular story. Here we have written down the definitive account of our trip.
This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses the practical aspects of cruising and what to consider before going on a cruise. Section 3 discusses what the cruise was like, including the food, the people, and what it looked like. Section 4 discusses our shore excursions. It tells our stories, what was fun and what was not. Section 5 is a compilation of our comments and tips from our cruise experience. If you want to know the tricks only someone who has been on a cruise will know - this is the spot!