Carnival Miracle Review

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Good time but not great with an under 2 year old

Review for the Mexican Riviera Cruise on Carnival Miracle
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First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Mar 2015
Cabin: Balcony
Traveled with children

Review on the under 2 years old restrictions for Camp Carnival:

My family of three just did the Los Angeles - Puerto Vallarta - Cabo San Lucas - Los Angeles trip in March 2015 on Carnival Miracle. We travelled with our almost 2 year old (just shy of 2 year birthday in April 2015). Unfortunately we did not know that Carnival has restrictions on the age and could not accommodate in allowing our son to participate in Camp Carnival in the 2 to 5 year old group. The activities seemed like they would have been a lot of fun. We were able to participate in some of the activities - first night was a family dance night in the Frankenstein Nightclub which was fun as the dance floor lit up and my son danced and ran around catching the balloons while the other older kids danced. I believe that activity was about 45 minutes. The last group activity we participated in was to watch the younger aged group kid's talent show - it was fun for my son to see the older kids do things like dance, say jokes, etc. On the 3 sea days, we took advantage of going to the play room with my son from 8am to 10am. This was the only time my son (at under 2 years) was allowed to play there with parental supervision, but they also opened the play room to under 2's during two build a bear days, one of which we participated in building a bear. The "babysitting" times were only from 10pm to 1am which really is inconvenient because most babies / toddlers are sleeping by 10pm anyway. We did this twice and went to a 10:15pm show at the Phantom Theatre but it was a struggle for me to stay up that late having had to entertain our son all day long. The camp counselors watching the kids were very nice and sweet. Although my son was not able to participate in the camp, they all enjoyed seeing him and he seemed to like them very much having spent sometime with them in the morning and at night for the babysitting. They were all looking forward to having him in the camp once he turns two years old - so we will definitely put him in the camp next year.

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Balcony

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RoomWe were in 5-136 (balcony) room and our steward Edwin was excellent and very accommodating. The room was right at the entrance to the elevators. I thought we would hear a lot of noise but surprisingly we did not hear noise in the hallways or our neighbors. It was a solidly quiet room. We had a nice size balcony with two chairs and a small side table. Very comfortable king size bed. A sofa which we turned into our toddlers bed which he slept in all night long. Plenty of storage for our clothes with 3 closets and 3 available drawers. Also had plenty of shelving in the bathroom. Bathroom itself was a bit outdated but it was clean and nice shower pressure. Don't expect to take a hot shower until Day 2 because it took awhile for the hot water to push through the pipes. RECOMMENDATION - you are allowed to bring onboard with you - Wine, Champagne and Soda / Water Bottles. We did not know that. However, we purchased a 5 wine bottle package onboard for $114 and were able to pick up bottles at our leisure at any bar on the ship. There is a fridge in the room where you can store a bottle of wine but the fridge was already filled with sodas and liquor, etc.

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