It was a very nice vacation get-away. This was my 4th time out since the shut down. Food quality has greatly improved over when they 1st started. There was plenty of live music around the ship. The cover band was wonderful. Grand Turk and Amber Cover were very nice, but Grand Turk remains my favorite. We had a great time and in all honesty, our vacation was very nice.
The negatives were the very long lines for everything. Pizza was closed from 3am until 10am, but that really didn't affect me personally. However, the pizza was horrible. I usually love the pizza on Carnival. It changed. The dough was often raw, the color of the suace was off, basically it sucked this time. It was my 24th time on Carnival and this was the 1st time is was actually bad. Also, another negative that can't be helped. It was an unusual situation which will be fixed - there was a lot of soot from the damaged funnel. My new white shirts have black soot spots on them, might be ruined. So keep that in mind if you go out on deck with light clothes.
But the room was nice, the food improved, the music was good and I loved the ports.