Heather's Happenings: Carnival Ecstasy Cruise

I recently just took a vacation on a cruise. I flew down to Florida with my husband, and my parents met us there (mom doesn't like flying). I do NOT recommend Spirit airlines, they charge so much for luggage and they were not very comfortable and probably the worst plane I've ever been on, but enough of that lets move on to the enjoyable parts of the trip.

We flew into Orlando they day before, and our cruise was out of Port Canaveral, so we stayed in the hotel at the Orlando airport which I highly recommend, its called the Hyatt Regency and its actually in the airport which makes it really convenient to get your shuttle from the airport the next day. The hotel had pretty nice spacious rooms and another great thing was the airport had a mall in it for shopping.

Then we took the shuttle bus about 45 minutes to Orlando the next day. It wasn't a bad ride.Then we met my parents coincidentally in the cruise terminal line, and boarded the ship. We got our id cards and then headed up to the lido deck for lunch since our rooms were not available yet. The food was OK but not as good as the Royal Caribbean cruise we were on or the previous Carnival cruises I had been on. We then founded our rooms and waited for our luggage to unpack, and then explored the ship. There was all the usual cruise ship activities, pools, hot tubs, water slides, mini golf, show lounges, casino, restaurants and bars.

We had a really nice formal night where we all dressed up and went to a nice dinner and then course the show and had drinks etc.

The first stop on our cruise was Half Moon Cay Bahamas it is really pretty island owned by Carnival. So all the places there take the carnival sail and sign card. We decided to go snorkeling with stingrays here and it was a good time. We also got to feed the stingrays a piece of squid. Then we decided to go to the barbecue lunch which was provided by Carnival since this was their own island. It was really nice not to have to pay for your own lunch on an excursion. Then we decided to go to the beach, which was also free, and it had the most beautiful water, it was as clear as a swimming pool. It's honestly my most favorite beach I've ever been to.

You have to take a tender boat to get to this island, while going on the tender boat we saw para-sailors.

The next stop we made was Nassau, which I've been to before but no one else I was with had. It was really fun we went to the Atlantis Resort which I had also previously been to. But we had a great time exploring the aquariums, and going to the water park etc. It was very overcast that day and it was supposed to storm, so the cruise ship was offering refunds, we decided to chance it and still go to Atlantis, and it turned out fine it only rained for maybe 5 minutes when we were leaving and it wasn't a heavy rain. Atlantis is really beautiful and I will post some photos now.