Carnival Tampa Cruise Reviews

Just returned from a 5 day 2 stop cruise. I referred to this cruise as the "Walmart" cruise, totally no frills. The boat was super clean. The food was good and all service was very good. That's about it for the good. There was only one stage performance all week. Makes you wonder what those talented performers did the rest of the time,[fold towels perhaps?]. The cruise director Steve played the ...

15 year veteran cruiser couple who have always enjoyed Carnival and have never had a reason to try another cruise line will be trying out the competition after this cruise. Carnival has changed in several ways, and none of them for the better. I booked the cruise on the Carnival website only to immedately thereafter be pelted with ads from an agency for the same cruise at the same price with ...

My group of 9 women ages 27-65 had an amazing cruise experience. There were no dislikes, or any incidents and all of us had a great time. Some had never cruised, many were long overdue for a cruise and everyone had nothing but good things to say about Carnival and about the embarkation/disembarkation process. This was the best "on/off" experience I've ever had in any port. The staff went out of ...

This was our 7th cruise on a Carnival ship this time we went on the Paradise. Nice ship but starting to show some age. The staff and the crew were very friendly and helpful. However Carnival is starting to get a little cheap. My husband and I are Gold card members and found out that the party they have for GOLD, Platinum and Diamond members no longer includes the Gold members. Then there are the ...

Girlfriend and I booked this as our first ever cruise. We normally stay at a resort when we travel to the Carinbean but decided to try a cruise at the urging of friends. We loved it. Although the Paradise is an older ship, the awesome staff and great entertainment more than makes up for it. Room service and ship staff were perfect (and I want to stress perfect), extremely helpful and made it easy ...

My history: 5 cruises. 2 disney (small and large), 1 carnival (sensation, tugboat class), 1 norwegian (Epic, large class). Having cruised from ports of Canaveral and Miami, large and small ships, i feel like I have a good grasp of Caribbean cruising including Cozumel. When we booked this cruise, we knew what we booked, we booked an inexpensive small cruise ship (for today), with a single ...

First time on the Paradise and we weren't disappointed! Our first encounter with the crew was at the Guest Services desk where we were helped by Caesar. We had not been able to get cash before boarding and didn't know our PIN #'s for our CCs. Caesar noticed that we had paid for our concert tix and a massage with a CC when making our reservations and he said he was able to refund that to us in ...

Let me preface by saying that I have been on 3+ cruises with Carnival and about 3 with Royal Carribbean. With that said, I was deeply disappointed with the condition of the ship and the fact that we were not credited for pictures. This was a small group of 7 that went and we were supposed to have a ten dollar credit on our bills towards any photo purchases. Unfortunately no credits were any ...

although this was my 5th cruise on carnival it was my children's first. I also took my girlfriend and her 2 sons which was their first cruise as well. after reading reviews about the carnival paradise I was really nervous that this trip would not live up to the hype. because of the week that we had to go and the port that was convenient for us this was the trip we were taking. I saw a lot of bad ...

We have been on 15+ cruises, several on Carnival so there were no surprises. We hosted 20 cruisers in a group to celebrate a birthday. The Ship – Old, but well maintained. Elevators were frequently out of service. Occasionally for crew use but often it looked like they were trying to save electricity. Atrium elevators were the worst. Trivia games and musical entertainment were held near the ...