Carnival Triumph Review

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Carnival Triumph - Western Caribbean

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Triumph

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Sail Date: May 2007
Cabin: Ocean View

We are a couple in our late twenties who have lived all over the U.S. This is our third cruise, but our second with Carnival.

We chose to take the pre-paid transfers from Miami Airport to the Port of Miami. We will never choose this option again. Once our flight landed, we rushed to get our luggage, but we had to wait for 30 minutes for the Carnival representative to show up. Then, we followed him through the airport to a bus outside. Once we got on the bus, we expected we would have to wait for other passengers, but we didn't expect to wait for close to an hour. In fact, we also had to wait for people who were taking a timeshare visit to board the bus. Even though we were dropped off first, it sort of got us off to a bad start to have to wait for people who were not even on our cruise.

The embarkation process was relatively smooth. The whole process was about 40-45 minutes, but it was split into three different stations. You first had to register (even with your Fun Pass in hand), get your Sail & Sign card and then you had to go on the ship to register your Sail & Sign card with a credit card. After that, you were able to get to your room. We went to check out our room and found it was a good size - it appeared larger than our rooms on the Jubilee or on the HA MS Amsterdam. We were on the main deck, where most of the cabins are located, and we had an ocean view. Our luggage arrived soon after we got into our room, but we were upset to find out that someone broke our Delsey luggage between when we put our locks on it at the port and when it arrived in our room. The damage was so bad that we think it must have been hit with the forklift. We recommend lugging your luggage in with you so as to avoid this unfortunate problem. Carnival was not willing to do anything except tell us that they would be willing to refund us up to $50 if we bought new luggage on the islands. Obviously, $50 won't buy you a large piece of Delsey luggage! So, we will have to take this up with Carnival later this week.

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Ocean View

Cabin 6A
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