Carnival Destiny Review
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No problems arriving in San Juan, a little late as we had an issue with our plane out of JFK. We arrived at 11:30am and were on the lido deck by 12:35pm. Check in was such a breeze and everyone we encountered were very nice and helpful. The alcohol rules were the most lax I've ever seen on Carnival. I tempted fate and was able to bring in a virtual bar in a carry on, the girl at the xray machine just looked at the bottles and smiled We opted to just stay on the ship as we had been to San Juan just a month earlier.
OK, well our last cruise was on Carnivals Miracle, this was our first on the Destiny. We picked this cruise for the itinerary. Well lol all I can say is it was like going from the Hilton to the days Inn. The ship is "dated". It was dry docked within the past couple of years, I'm not really sure what they did but I'm glad I wasn't on the ship before the update lol.
Our room was ready at 1pm, we had a cat 8a balcony. All of our preordered stuff was waiting for us in our room, and was set out perfectly. After unpacking I'm looking around for the fridge...looking...still looking...finally I call down to the desk and ask someone, the nice girl on the phone says it must be there somewhere or maybe they took it out because it wasn't working. I paige my steward, after introductions and pleasantries, I ask him about the fridge....this is when he gives me the bad news that there are no fridges...only in suites....I shrug and just tell myself its no big deal really (our steward surprised us that afternoon with a cooler and always kept it full of ice for us...we never had to ask)...so finished unpacking switch on the TV to check the account on fun vision...damn the remotes not working I keep pushing menu and nothing happens...so I call down to the desk again....opps no fun vision either...This I was sad about. I love to check my account balance daily. All the rumors you've read about the air conditioning are true. It doesn't really work well in the rooms. Our room was hot. We took the cover off the vent ourselves, still didn't help. Alot of people had it worse than us though, especially the interior cabins on our floor. It was weird all the public places were super cool, just the rooms were hot.