For sports fanatics, there is a Sports Bar with satellite ESPN on seven large-screen televisions, in addition to video poker machines built into the bar.

Hidden on Deck 4 is Winston’s Cigar Bar, a cigar bar which features jazz music and dancing before dinner. On the opposite end of Valor is the three-deck high Ivanhoe Theater aim for the lower balcony seats, a little off-center, for the best view. The ship’s secondary showroom at the stern, is the Eagle’s Lounge, where entertainment varies between a live 4-piece band playing Beatles tunes and late-night “blue” comedy. The “Promenade” on Deck 5 includes the Jeanne’s Wine Bar, the kid’s area called The Caboose, The Shogun Club Casino, The Lindy Hop sing-along piano bar, The Paris Hot for combo music and the One Small Step adult disco. In the center is a small stage for non-imposing background music behind the musicians glass elevators rise to the top deck. Valor’s layout includes a skeleton which is ideal to her sisters, starting with the imposing nine-deck American Atrium rising above the American Lobby.

Rather than brass and glass, most of the ship is molded with chrome & mirrors, which tends to send you confusing visual signals as you navigate the ship. There are stark marble stars & stripes embedded in the floor and gilded eagle sculpturettes throughout the ship. Along those lines, Joe chooses to play to his audience by using the American flag as inspiration for the main atrium. Carnival’s ship designer, the renowned Joe Farcus, in keeping with the name chose “Heroes and Heroism,” as the theme for Valor.

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