Carnival Sensation Review

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Carnival Sensation - Bahamas

Review for the Bahamas Cruise on Carnival Sensation
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gigglebabe
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Sep 2006
Cabin: Ocean View

Sailing on the Sensation, finding the port was very easy, we were dropped off by a friend, and within 20 minutes of handing our baggage to someone we were standing on the Lido deck eating some lunch. Embarkation at this port was very simple, walk in, smile for a picture, hand them your ID and birth cert. and a credit card for sail and sign, and we were handed keys to the room, and sail and sign cards. We were well on our way to a wonderful cruise. Around 1:30 they allowed us to go on to our cabins, most of our luggage was already sitting in front of the door, we were very stunned by this, as we had heard it would take well into the night to get everything to our cabins. We had all of our luggage by the time the lifeboat drills were completed. Around 4:20pm we started drifting out to sea...what an amazing feeling, this was our first cruise. I took my cousin along with me, as she never does anything for herself either, and on board I met a very nice lady whom I met on the internet almost 10 yrs ago. We have chatted every day since meeting, and become very good friends. She came all the way from Portland to go on this cruise with us. We had the time of our life! The food was amazing. Our server in the dinning room was Ritti, and Igusti. They were wonderful. We had to have the two best servers on the ship. Ritti always told us what to try if we were unsure, as some of those foods we had never heard of. He was extremely helpful to us all.

Our stateroom was very clean, and kept very neat and orderly throughout the cruise. It seemed everytime we stepped out and would come back the bed would have been made, or turned down, ice refilled in the bucket to keep our drinks cold. We often wondered where our room stewart was, as we never saw him! But he was always doing something in our room cleaning while we were away. Once I forgot my camera and walked back from the elevator to get it real fast and caught him turning my bed down...I just giggled...it was very funny, he was trying to sneak around when we weren't in the rooms to do his job and I caught him. His name was Edde...a very nice man.

In Freeport we didn't sign up on any shore excursions, we thought we would just go into the International Bazaar and shop for the day, and maybe go to a beach in the afternoon. Well, we were disappointed, once off the ship and asking for a taxi to the Bazaar, we were told no, that no one would take us there. That since the last storm, there were no shops there at all. We were told to go shop we must go into Port Lucaya. So we did, but once there we were smart enough to figure out how to take a city bus on to the Bazaar. And did so for a dollar each. The bus driver was very nice, he took us to the Bazaar and dropped us off, telling us he would come back at 11:30am and pick us up and take us to a beach. He was extremely nice. We shopped at the Bazaar, I got better prices and deals from there than in Port Lucaya. The workers there were stunned to find out they would not bring us there to shop. We were the only people there until just before we were leaving that area, another lady happened to come in the shop we were in, and she to had asked to come into the Bazaar area and was told no. I was very disappointed that we could not be taken to where we wanted to go from the port into Freeport.

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Ocean View

Cabin 6A
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