Carnival Victory Review

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Carnival Victory Southern Caribbean Cruise - April 29, 2012

Review for the Southern Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Victory
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Sail Date: Apr 2012
Cabin: Balcony

We took our seventh Carnival cruise on the Victory, sailing from San Juan, P.R. with 5 other friends. This was our first time on the Victory and our first time visiting this side of the Caribbean. We flew from Boston to San Juan on Saturday, the day before the cruise, as we usually do. We all stayed at the Embassy Suites & Casino in Isla Verde, which was only a short ride from the San Juan airport. The hotel was nice enough, but dated. Clean, nice pool area, an Outback Steak House inside the hotel, small cramped casino which we walked through but didn't play in. The rooms showed the hotel's age, nothing terrible or "Oh my God, we need to leave" but clearly in need of some upgrades and TLC. One room our party got didn't have a shower curtain -- how do you miss that? To the hotel's credit, they bent over backwards after remedying the problem, offering free dinner or lunch (which we couldn't use because we'd already eaten and wouldn't be there the next day for lunch) but that's something you think would be noticed when cleaning the rooms. The Manager's reception was ok, free drinks and snacks are free drinks and snacks. The breakfast buffet -- you should skip that. Eggs were uneatable, potatoes cold and bacon barely cooked. Thank goodness for cereal and fruit!

We taxied to the port around 1130am Sunday, and checked our bags and headed up to check in. We were literally one of the first 25 people there so check in went quickly. We only had to wait about 35 minutes before they allowed us to board the Victory. Once on board, we went to the purser's desk and put cash down on our Sail & Sign account, which we always do. Work off the cash before the credit card (and interest) kicks in. Then it was up to the Lido deck to eat lunch and sun -- we decided not to leave the ship once we were checked in. Our cabins were ready around 1pm, which was nice. Our luggage showed up while we were still looking at the room, which was better!!! Our cabin steward greeted us while we were moving our bags into the cabins, and throughout the cruise he (Famir) was seemingly ALWAYS right there when we opened our doors. We had three cabins in a row (6395, 6397 & 6399) and had the balcony partitions opened up to create a huge balcony.

We all changed and cleaned up and went to the open seating dinner around 8pm and had a nice dinner. Lifeboat drill went smoothly after dinner and at 10pm we sailed. This was another first for us, something other than an afternoon departure. Not sure if I care for it but at the time it was nice seeing San Juan's light fade behind us as we sailed away. We all turned in around 11pm and slept nicely as the sailing was smooth.

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Balcony

Cabin 8B

Our cabin was an 8B balcony, cabin 6395. We found it a little smaller than other Carnival ships - no room for even one night stand with the bed in King Size configuration - but other wise quite nice. Bathroom was larger than we've seen before too.

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