I've never felt the need to write negative reviews about anything before but my experience on the Carnival Pride was so bad that I'm compelled to warn any others who are considering taking this cruise as their first "cruise experience" to reconsider.

For those who are experienced in cruising, some of things I've mentioned below were probably expected but having never been on a cruise before they completely ruined my experience:

Overall: The cruise was supposed to be 7 nights with 3 days at port but unfortunately we were told that the weather was too severe to dock at one of the ports (Freeport). This means that out of the 8 days, 6 were spent at sea and parts of 2 days were at port. If you've never been on a ship before, spending 6 days on a ship that has terrible food, limited TV channels, and no activities for individuals in my particular age group was torture. Obviously this is partially due to leaving from Baltimore which takes 3 days just to get to the Bahamas. However, one would think that due to the fact we could not go to one of the scheduled ports that some sort of reimbursement would be provided, but no. Read more