Carnival Miracle Review

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Carnival Miracle - Western Caribbean

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Miracle
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critcatny
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jun 2006
Cabin: Balcony

This was our 2nd cruise on Carnival and honestly I'm not sure I'm willing to pay more money to find out if there is any difference with the other cruiselines.....We have had 2 wonderful cruises on Carnival. We cruised out of Tampa this time and embarkation was a breeze. We did get to the terminal at 10:30am which might have helped. We were on the boat by 12.

First we checked out the boat a little...beautiful and clean and NEW (our last cruise was on the Fascination-much older ship). The Miracle is a great ship...We then headed to the Lido Deck for some lunch and just relaxed till our room was ready (1:30pm). We had our fist balcony room on the Verandah deck. Really enjoyed that. That 1st day we checked to make sure we had the table for 2 in the DR which we requested and found out we did. We unpacked and enjoyed our balcony a little (which we didn't have on the Fascination). I agree it will be hard to go back to an oceanview (never an inside room) after having a balcony room. I understand it also depends on the "cruisers" shiplifestyle as to whether a balcony price is worth it...but I thought it was. We made sure we were up on deck to see the ship go under the Sunshine Bridge and they are right...it really does look like it comes awful close to hitting but of course its not as close as it looks. We checked out the buffets for dinner instead of the DR this night and were happy with the selections and quality. My boyfriend likes buffet style eating while I opt for the full service DR so we compromise and do a little of each...breakfast as well as dinners. The only thing we have a problem with is the dining room dinner times. On our last cruise we picked the early seating since that was closest to when we ate at home..but found that interfered a lot with the amount of time we had in the ports in order to get back and showered and dressed in time for dinner. So this time we picked the late seating (8:15) and although I had no problems with it, he seemed to think it was much too late to eat dinner and we ended up missing some nighttime activities cause we were just too full and tired at 10 or so when we finished dinner. (A 6:30 or 7pm dinner would be perfect but guess that's not happening unless we choose not to eat in the DR).

2nd day: Sea Day- we just enjoyed the food, pools, music, etc and had a great day. Never had any problems (even on these sea days) finding chairs by the pools. The music was fun by the main pool, but too many kids so we opted for the adults only pool in the back. This was the 1st formal night which I was not missing (lobster tails). We ordered 2 each and they were excellent as was the rest of the meal.

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Balcony

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