I was nervous about sailing on a ship with this many people. Some of the areas are definitely too small for this many guests. Specifically center stage, the Mardi Gras theater, Punchliner comedy club and the limelight lounge are all too small for this many guests. They try to alleviate this by having multiple showings of the same shows. Unfortunately the times don't always work out with how long dinner takes in the main dining room. On the plus side, the variety of food options and the layout of the buffets actually resulted in smaller lines at most eateries than I have experienced on smaller ships. It can be both a good and bad thing that the venues are separated. It does help with crowds but it's a challenge if one person wants a salad (deck 16) and one wants pizza or sandwiches (deck 8). I thought the crew was very good as I expect from Carnival. The shows were terrific and the comedy shows were very funny. The weather was terrible and seas were very rocky. No big deal for me but there were a lot of people with bored kids since the pools and water slides were off limits the first 2 days due to the rain and wind. We had decent weather for the ports. Rocky seas again for the trip home. Overall despite being sick 2 days and not getting to go ashore in Amber Cove or Grand Turk I still enjoyed the cruise and would cruise Mardi Gras again though I usually prefer longer cruises than the typical 7 day Mardi Gras cruise. The roller coaster was only open one day in Grand Turk and we could not get tickets. Next cruise I would hope we could ride it. I wish Shaqs Big Chicken was open later as that was my daughter's favorite but it closes at 5 so it isn't a dinner option. The new digital debark seemed to work fine. They changed our time we chose a few days before in the app by 15 minutes the morning of debark but they were just about right on and called us to depart right on the beginning of the revised window. The birth certificate line was huge but we had passports so our line was much shorter. Getting out of the terminal if you pay a porter you can get right out but if you don't they siphon you through a much longer line. Still it wasn't too bad moved pretty well.