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Day 4 - Roatan (knew I was gonna mess this up.......)

Day 6 - Cozumel

Day 5 - Belize

Day 3 - Sea Day

Day 2 - Sea Day

The Fun Times is not in a scanner-friendly size, so there are 2 images per side. However, it's a lot clearer than trying to take a digital photo of it. I'll do one day per post in this thread.

Also, at the end will be the Circle C and debarkation instructions in case those are useful.

This is fantastic advice, so glad I found this post! I will be cruising alone with my daughter who will be 12 by the time our cruise gets here. While I really want the quality time with her, knowing that she can find some friends and I could make a spa reservation or just have some relaxing me time will be fantastic!!

You may get more "me time" than you expect! Our kids are not extroverts by any means and they had no trouble finding a group of kids they wanted to hang out with. We were also very comfortable with giving them the freedom to explore the ship. We said early on that they were never to go to someone else's cabin, have them in our cabin, accept food or drink from someone else, and to stay in public areas of the ship. We got the chat plan for the Carnival app and they had to check in using that at preset times.

Chat is not 100% reliable, though. Have a backup plan for check-ins - we said that if they sent a message that was not acknowledged, they had to leave a note in the cabin with the time and where they were going. If they were going to the pool without their phones, they had to get us a message right before and after their trip to the pool.

Just came back from the Breeze. The Liquid Nightclub was typically empty during the day, you may be able to get it reserved for your M&G on the morning of day 2.

The lanais that are on deck 5 on either side of midships have good seating but may be hard to seat more than 30-40.

If you want something the first night and people don't mind standing, you could try the aft area of Deck 5. It's mostly out of the wind, not that noisy, and you could get dozens back there. Just have them stop by a convenient bar on the way.

We purchased one value plan and switched among four devices. Sometimes we had glitches where it would not switch, but turning devices wifi off/on usually cleared it. I would not depend on the value plan to do anything other than trivial text e-mailing. Multi-megabyte attachments will take forever to download/upload.

Hi everyone,

We just got back from the Carnival Breeze Western Caribbean itinerary (June 24 sailing). I'm going to post some more later on our experiences but I wanted to get this out there first.

If you have teens/tweens that are in the Circle C age group, get them to go the first night to the mixer/orientation above all else. Don't go swimming and figure you'll "catch up" later. Our kids (14 and 12) found a group of eight or so right away and they spent the whole cruise together as a group. Those friend groups are formed that first night and it's a lot tougher to join in later on. I first caught this on this board and was glad I did, otherwise our kids might have missed out on one of the best experiences of their lives.

Our kids mainly used Circle C as a place to meet and hang out. They participated in about 0.3 organized activities. Other kids may have done more but ours just hung out with their friends.

Our daughter turns 15 in July and before the cruise really wanted to be in Club O2 - she just finished her freshman year of high school and didn't want to hang out with "middle schoolers". Once she got into her friend group (which had middle schoolers), there was zero talk of jumping up to Club O2. So if you have a child who is on the cusp of joining Club O2, have them give Circle C a chance first.

We had a good mix of family time and friends time with Circle C. Generally we ate breakfast and dinner together and were together on excursion days. Otherwise the kids hung out with their friends from late morning to around 5, then from 7:30 to when they got too tired to stay up. This left my wife and I free to do whatever around the ship without feeling guilty we were ignoring our kids.

Organized Chaos - thanks for the review. We are headed towards Galveston tomorrow for our first cruise (on the Breeze, departing Sunday). I appreciate the "new cruiser" reviews on here a lot. It was through reading these boards, perusing TripAdvisor, and so on, that I decided we'd book non-Carnival excursions and see a bit more than the "usual" on our port stops.

Looks like two other Carnival ships already at Puerta Maya (Triumph and Sensation).

Saint Greg - thanks so much for posting this. We have the same trip on the Breeze in two weeks as our first ever cruise, but in the reverse direction. This will help us know what to expect - maybe not every last detail but certainly more than we knew before this thread!