My name is Penn and wife is Ginny. Started cruising in the 50,s out of Miami to Nassau and now have over 40 plus cruises on most of all the main line cruise lines and did take the 49 day Carnival Splendor around SA last Feb. Ft. Lauderdale to San Francisco. For those of you that have not done SA put it on your future list. My other advice and that is all it is try different lines and you will find something to your liking that beat your last cruise. Since we live in South Carolina we will now be looking at Celebrity,s Mercury which will be doing cruises out of Charleston the first quarter of the year and Carnival will also be doing year round cruises beginning 2010. Have never had a bad cruise and sure beats staying at home.