Carnival Fantasy Review

Carnival Fantasy - Western Caribbean

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Fantasy
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Rodeomomof2
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Aug 2007
Cabin: Ocean View
Traveled with children

Our group of 8 headed to New Orleans on Saturday the 25th for our 5 night cruise with a new itinerary to Progresso instead of Costa Maya and Cozumel. We were: my family of 4, my husband and I and our children 12 & 15, two other couples in their 30's and 40's. We arrived at the terminal around 11:15 and were able to park quickly and the line to get your sail and sign cards and room keys took about 15 minutes. We were onboard and eating some delicious roast beef from the buffet by 12ish. We were allowed to go to our rooms around 1:20, we all had ocean view rooms on the Empress deck and they were wonderful to have because you were so conveniently located to everything. We had to sit out on the Lido deck by the pool for the lifeboat drill and it was HOT...after that we were on our way down the way the Mississippi towards Progresso.

FOOD: We had dinner in the Jubilee dining room at 5:45 and we had Jaime and his terrific dining room team for our servers. I can't say enough about them, they were wonderful. My son and husband and two other people from our group were big soda drinkers, after the first night, they knew our names and what we wanted to drink and they were always keeping the glasses full, and us very well attended to and happy. The chocolate melting cake was everything I heard it was and more....wow.....excellent. We had a lot of seafood and beef dishes, the steaks were excellent, as were all of the other dishes that we had. I loved having the alternative dining menu to choose from if we did not particularly love anything on the menu that night. If you miss the dining room experience, you are missing a lot. I was told that the Fantasy dining room staff was the highest rated dining staff in all of Carnival's fleet...I would have to agree. We also had breakfast and at least one lunch in the dining room...those lido deck burgers are pretty darn good too! ?

ROOMS: Are rooms were E143, E147, E151, E167 they were under the galley and some minor noise was heard like a drain or something over our ceiling (151), but it was not that much of an annoyance. We liked being a short walk to just about anywhere, the main atrium lobby, and one deck up to the Jubilee or Celebration dining rooms, all of those stairs kept me from gaining too much weight after eating all of that TERRIFIC food! ?

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Ocean View

Cabin 6E
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