Carnival Victory Review

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Shadow3
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Nov 2008
Traveled with children

To give you some background, I went with my DH and two DD's ages 9 and 11. My husband and I are in our 40's and this was my 6th CC, my husbands 4th CC and my kids 2nd CC. I read the previous reviews, and my take about the Cruise is really different from the other negative posts. We took our cruise the week of Thanksgiving (Nov.23). We flew into San Juan from Chicago on Saturday and stayed at the Sheraton Hotel. It is right across the street from the pier. Very nice hotel. We checked in and were famished. We went to Senior Frogs that is behind the Hotel. We had a really good time there. The food was wonderful. After dinner, we just walked around the downtown area. It was hot and humid, and after walking around for awhile, we went back to the hotel and just stayed in our room and relaxed.

The Day of Embarkation: Around 11 am we walked across the street with all of our luggage and proceeded to check in. It was a breeze, no wait at all. After checking in you do have to wait for your zone to be called. Ours didn't get called until 1:30. Once we were on the vessel, we went straight up to Lido and had lunch and ordered a Strawberry Daiquiri with an umbrella! It was wonderful. We walked around for a while, registered the kids for Camp Carnival and just walked around. The muster drill was horrendous. They have you so packed on the deck and with the heat and humidity, people were getting faint and sick. Not good. Our stateroom had a queen bed with two top bunk beds. With the four of us standing, we were so cramped. But it worked and we vowed to go with a balcony next time. The ship is in a "green" scheme. I loved it! Some people thought it was gaudy, I didn't think so. It makes the ship.

St. Thomas - There are lots of shops right when you get off the ship. So we went shopping there. Around 10:30 we went back onboard and got the kids from camp carnival and went to Sapphire Beach. It took about 20 min to get there, the waves were rough but we really enjoyed it.

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