Your welcome to join us on Feb 8, 2007 on the Carnival Holiday leaving out of Mobile, Alabama. Please e-mail [email protected] if you are interested. We have access to great GROUP rates as well as past guest and military discounts. Beth M

Always go to a reputable travel agent. If your state has a requirement for licensing as a Seller of Travel, select a travel agency that is licensed. Many Home-based Agents don't follow this legal requirement, but here in California it's a felony! My agency is a member of two consortiums that have group space on several different cruise lines and itineraries, so that is very important for you the client because it gives better options and sometimes pricing. Some agencies offer "perks" for booking with them as well, which you won't get from other agencies or the cruise lines themselves. You also need to find someone who can give you first hand advise - it's not the wisest to buy a cruise from someone who hasn't cruised in 10 years.... their information would be quite out of date. For more information you can contact me via MSN or Email, or check out my Cruise website www.ShipVacations.com. Always glad to help a fellow traveler - Darrin

Hello Friends~ We have 7 cabins reserved on this cruise, coming up very soon! Just wondering if any other WLS friends will be on that boat? I am going with my family and hoping to have gastric bypass the week that I get home! I am so excited. I am calling this my "goodbye to fat" cruise! We are going to Halifax, Nova Scotia. I have been on this boat before, it's very nice. Michelle in NJ

ditto what the other posters have said. the spirit class ships are great. the layout is easy to negotiate, not too big, just right. i sailed it to alaska in 2003 and the sister ship miracle to western carib in 2005, loved both voyages, i'm sure you'll have a wonderful cruise.

The Carnival Spirit is a beautiful ship. I was just on it last month... took a family on a tour whose son is getting married on the Carnival Pride next month. They were impressed, especially since they had never been on a Carnival ship before. They are avid Cruisers who have sailed on Princess, Holland America, NCL, Celebrity and RCCL, but never looked into Carnival because of it's "fun ship" image, think it was for younger crowds. Carnival had really changed their image over the past 10 years and really have a following of multi-generational cruisers. You will like it! Darrin (A Travel Agent, and fellow cruise buff)