The Fascination Carnival Cruise Ship. This is the Jacksonville port as we arrived. We drove all night to get there and it was a cool and overcast day. We were lucky in arriving when there was a lull in the check in. It only took us an hour to get through security and check in. Our stateroom M299 was out of numerical order so we only had to walk the entire length of the ship and back to find our room just a few yards from the elevator we had come up on just past 51. Needless to say we took a much... Sign in to see full entry.