We had a lovely cruise, the ship was spotless, only complaint was the food in the buffett was cold, there was very little choice,, As i only eat white meat we decided to eat in the dinning room and we found this was the same (very little choice if any) unless you wanted to eat chicken breast dinner everynight. went for breakfast the in the dinning room first day we waited an hour and a half for ...
We have cruised on The Splendor before, when it was cruising the Western Mexico coast. It was fairly new then and seems to have held up just fine! Boarded in New York, which went fairly smoothly. We flew to Newark and caught Carnival transportation to the port. . (The cruisers on this trip seemed to be more of the retiree/older genre, so it was a little less of a party atmosphere than on some ...
First off, let me say I have only been on one other Carnival ship before, the Carnival Magic. Great ship! Most of my cruises have been with NCL. That being said, the Carnival Splendor is in need of it's retrofit more sooner, than later if it wants to compete with the newer market of cruise ships.
To begin the review, embarkation wasn't too bad, considering it's N.Y.C. Yes, they are rude at the ...
This was our 4th cruise overall and our first with Carnival.
Having cruised before, we had realistic expectations (average food; typical production shows; very tight slots in the casino; lots of standing in lines; friendly staff).
Carnival has the Faster to the Fun excursion which is excellent. I think that they should sell more of these.
On the Lido, there is, in addition to the typically ...
Having traveled on other cruise lines and having enjoyed every trip, we were looking forward to our cruise on Carnival, which was our first for this line. Reviews seemed good, so we booked and counted the days until our sailing day.
We arrived at the cruise terminal, no big welcome, not the usual fan fair etc, just chaos trying to get onto the boat. No band, no welcoming faces, oh...just those ...
Sailed out of New York City on a rainy day. Was fun to go past the Statue of Liberty. Had originally booked the cheapest inside cabin on deck 1. About 3 days before the cruise got a call to see if I wanted an upsell to Aft Balcony on Deck 8 for $300 total for 2 of us for the week. I immediately upgraded. I am glad we did. This cabin was much larger than the inside cabins and had a large ...
On September 27, 2014 I arrived to JFK airport in NYC and headed to the ground transportation desk looking for the Carnival Cruise Lines provided transfer I purchased. After waiting for about 15 minutes, a nice lady showed up and introduced us to our driver. My very first cruise vacation was officially underway.
Not having cruised before, I purchased the Faster to the Fun for all three cabins of ...
My wife and I have sailed Carnival a handful of times now, and after cruising with Disney and NCL, we were excited to return to Carnival, as we truly had fun in the past, and thought Carnival had the best activities and food. Unfortunately Carnival seems to be going through some sort of change. We could not help but feel like they were cheaping out on all sorts of things.
Most notably, the dining ...
First of all let me say that my wife and I are veteran travelers of cruises and we are platinum on carnival. They certainly call them "The Fun Ships" for a reason. We enjoyed a four day stay in New York prior to departing on our cruise and New York can be confusing if you let it be. Enough said about that.
Our cruise was awesome. Our journey began with a speedy embarkation (about 30 minutes) and ...
Just returned from Carnival Glory 7 night from New York to Halifax. Halifax was 88 degrees.
I have personal suggestions.
New York - we stayed one night at The Verve Hotel and taxied into Times Square and took the red hop on hop off bus tour. We didn't get off. We got off where we started, ate dinner, and returned to take the night light tour of New York. These were very different tours. Being ...