Well, it has been a few weeks since we have gotten back from our six day cruise on the Carnival Breeze and I wanted to pass along some thoughts and observations that might help future cruisers of this ship. We have seen many different ports in the Caribbean and we decided that the ship was going to be our destination and since this particular sailing of the Breeze only had two port stops, it gave us an extra day to stay on board and relax and at the same time reduced the price of the cruise since the port charges were less. The cruise itself had many different aspects that would be categorized as either Good, Bad or Ugly. I think I'll start off by mentioning those aspects of the cruise that fell into either of the two negative categories and then I will go into the many positive aspects of our cruise.

When we ate lunch at the Cucina del Capitano on day two, we were surprised to find out that right above us was the basketball court. It was a very enjoyable lunch, but less so because of the thump, thump, thump of the basketball that was being dribbled overhead. Another not so brilliant move when they designed the ship was to put the water slides in an area that was somewhat adjacent to the adult Serenity area. I realize that these two areas need to both be up top, but it would have made more sense to place them at opposite ends of the ship. It sort of defeats the purpose of having an adult only Serenity area when there are many people within earshot splashing around and having fun at the water park. The final area that would be under the Bad heading was the fact that the aft section of the ship, which had a bank of 4 elevators, had only 3 of them working for the first four days of the cruise.

Under the heading of Ugly, I would like to make a comment regarding the Comedy Shows, or should I say, lack of. It has been previously reported on the CC boards that the 8 day version of the Breeze had two different sets of comedians and thus they had comedy on four out of their 8 days, while we only had one set of comedians performing on two out of our 6 days. Because of the extreme popularity of the Comedy shows, it would have made sense to have the comedians perform on at least 1 other night, so the ratio would have been the same on both the 6 and 8 night sailings. The way it was set up, made us feel a little bit cheated entertainment wise. On a positive note though, the manager at the Comedy Club did clear the club between shows so that those that were waiting outside to get in had a chance, making it fair to everyone, so that was a very positive note. The only other things that would constitute Ugly, IMHO would be the fact that the ship only had two pools and that they did not have an adults only pool like many of the other ships in the fleet have. Read more