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If I could change anything, I'd change where I am right now...to sitting on a Carnival ship! We've been cruising with Carnival since 1993 and we still love Carnival! Sure there are some things onboard that we avoid. Instead the gravitate to what we like about Carnival. A couple of notable additions we liked on our 11/10 5-day cruise on the Fascination was:

1. They added a Comedy Club every night. This was great because one night the seas were too rough for the dancers to perform in the main theater, so we went to the back theater and enjoyed a comedy act. There were 3 comedians that had varying acts throughout the cruise.

2. Carnival brought back lobster to the 5-day cruise. They had stopped that a few years ago, but brought it back.

We've been able to take multiple cruises with our kids over the years - mostly with Carnival - because it is a super value! I live 2 hours from the Outer Banks and it costs more to rent a house 2 rows away from the beach for a week than for the 4 of us to cruise Carnival. The beach is just a house - the cruise includes food, entertainment and beautiful tropical destinations. Still a no-brainer for us.

The enjoyment you get from a cruise is in direct correlation to the attitude you have on the ship.

CPAYNE1997, the links above are working now. Don't know what corrupted them in the previous post. Sorry!

I can not get either one of these links to work???:confused:

Let's try this again:

http://johnheald.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/mb-post-opening-presntation-compressed.pdf

Here's a slide show put together by Carnival of Mahogany Bay. Excellent picures! Many posts have said that the snorkeling there was poor in Mahogany Bay. Pehaps they just didn't go far enough. Picture #30 shows a coral reef at the far end of the island. It says it is a 5 minute swim from the snorkeling pier. http://johnheald.files.wordpress.com...compressed.pdf

Carnival makes it difficult for passengers who book excursions outside the ship in Roatan. In this post, you see the hill you walk up to get to the gates This video shows what's on the other side down the hill to get to the independent operators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he8Xf...eature=related

We'll be there on 4/7/10. Since we've been to Rotan 2 other times, we plan to just stay at MB this time.