Carnival Splendor Cruise Reviews

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Fall Break Cruise

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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rodrig54
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

My wife and I took a nine day cruise up the Australian coast departing from Sydney. Biggest port of call was Cairns and a couple of smaller places in Queensland. My biggest error was selecting a cruise right dab in the middle of a school semester break resulting in hundreds of kids joining us on the cruise. While the ship officially holds about 3100 folks, a couple of times the announced number ...
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Sail Date: April 2023


WAY too overcrowded and chaotic - my worst cruise ever

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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tropicalhols
6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

We love cruising & trying new cruiselines but this 4 day Easter cruise to Moreton Island has turned me off Carnival Cruiselines. They say they have capacity of 3,012 but kept saying they had over 3,900 onboard - so I reported them & was told they are registered to take 3,948, which they do when filling every bunk and sofa! Problem is the ship is not really made to cater for about 4,000 ...
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Sail Date: April 2023


Don't buy an Apple Watch on the Cruise!

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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MPPP
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

Our experience with Carnival was very good, that's why we decided to go on 10 Days cruise around Pacific Islands - march 2023. Cabin, food, restaurants, was all as we would remember from the previous experience. Entertaiment, however - very poor, nothing good, boring and cheap. We purchased an apple watch (another remainder to ourselves - not to buy staff like this on the ...
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Sail Date: March 2023


AMAZING CRUISE! Thank You Carnival!

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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Carnival_Splendor45
10+ Cruises • Age 30s

We originally booked this cruise back in 2019, but it got cancelled because of the pandemic. We booked again but our cruise got cancelled 3 more times. Finally, we were able to take this cruise from Sydney, Australia. The first thing I noticed when boarding is the ship is VERY pink. But that didn't bother me, I thought it added to the experience. You enter the ship via the massive, breathtaking ...
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Sail Date: March 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony

Traveled with children


60th Birthday cruise

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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mermaid69
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

So I decided to do a three day cruise for my 60th Birthday with my friend, overall cruise was good. Staff in the dining area were very good so was the food and most staff friendly. We were in a spa Balcony and enjoyed the perks very much, variety of food in the Lido was minimal but the pizza was amazing, our cabin 1016 was clean and tidy although cabins are cleaned once a day only. TV was so ...
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Sail Date: February 2023

Cabin Type: Cloud 9 Spa Balcony


Nice ship terrible food

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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Jacob saxby
First Time Cruiser • Age 20s

Chose this cruise for a 21st birthday The food was terrible only food that was half decent was 24 hour pizza and the sandwich bar. The all you can eat buffet was crap they just couldn’t even get the simple things right. We went to the restaurant for 2 nights the first night I got a steak which I thought might’ve been nice being at the restaurant but was nothing fancy at all no one in ...
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Sail Date: February 2023

Cabin Type: Ocean View


Poor communication and poor health protocols and poor cabin.

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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neil.rose
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

I got a good deal (I thought) of $890 AUD for a balcony cabin and $900 AUD OBC. I should have known that it was too good to be true (especially when the American cruisers told me what they were paying). Embarkation was a total farce. We were told that we had to show a negative RAT result, 24 hrs prior. No one ever asked to see it. When we finally got on board, we waited by the lifts until, ...
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Sail Date: January 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony


Fantastic Voyage of a Lifetime - 3 Cruises Back to Back to Back

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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RetirementGoals
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

Carnival Splendor had three cruises that lined up nicely. South Pacific, Moreton Island and New Zealand. We booked all three with the same cabin. Once we got on board for the first cruise we didn't unpack for 25 days! It was an epic journey, and with all the activities and port days, we had an incredible time. The staff were amazing and did anything and everything to be sure we were well ...
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Sail Date: January 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony


Longtime Carnival Cruiser Bad Cruise Experience

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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Inlisted
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

We had chosen and booked this cruise before the pandemic. It was canceled and reset many times do to the COVID outbreaks on ships and the lack of testing procedures laid out by the government and agreed upon by the cruiselines. We had set this cruise with 8 other people and were excited to meet up with them on this January 29. 2023 cruise out of Sydney. We were flying from the US about 9,000 miles ...
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Sail Date: January 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony


Unhappy with Management, path was blocked with hazards, food hasn't been changed

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Carnival Splendor

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Joyful8288
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

The embarkation was fast. The main lobby was very small, noisy and crowded. Their website says they use USD so I selected cash for my onboard account (I have only AUD bank card). I called hotline and they told me they use AUD, but I needed to get on board soon. So took 25 minutes to wait for guest service staff to fix my account (linked to AUD bank card ). I chose King bed for my dad online 2 days ...
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Sail Date: January 2023

Cabin Type: Aft-View Extended Balcony

Traveled with children


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