Carnival Imagination Review

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mamabelladonna
6-10 Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Nov 2014
Cabin: Junior Suite

I found the staff the best thing. They were caring and helpful and earnest to make this little cruise fun. They were outstanding in name recall. AMAZING for a 4-day cruise. The ship was festive. The food was good, the ship was fun, the kids kept busy, so I didn't notice them much, and everything was clean. We had a great time. There could have been more daytime activities...basket weaving, dollar bill origami, that sort of thing would have been fun. The books were locked up and you had to go to the service desk to get someone to trek over to get a book. But the library was pretty and quiet with lots of good sitting areas. On the 4-day cruise there was only one big show, and all the entertainment started after 9pm...late for old folks, who are a large percentage of cruisers. Though on this cruise (and Carnival's reputation in general) the age was younger. But still, lots of seniors. I'd have liked the entertainment to be in shifts so early diners could catch a comedy show and still go to sleep at 10.

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The stateroom was called a Jr. Suite and it was not a suite by any stretch of the imagination, and had less storage than a regular stateroom on Princess, or Royal Caribbean and that's not saying much. It did have a shower that was a little larger than usual (I could wash my feet without sticking any part of me out of the shower.) But the room was tiny. The balcony was more of a Juliet balcony. You really had to squeeze to get past the chairs...regular chairs, not reclining deck chairs. To sit in the chairs, you had to turn them sideways. You could have fit one reclining deck chair if you put it sideways and didn't need to walk past it, that would have been the size of the whole deck. They didn't classify this an obstructed view, but there was a big boom kind of thing that did obstruct the view.

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