This was my 5th cruise and my husband's 8th cruise. Unfortunately, I think this was the last Carnival ship that we will be going on.
POOLS:
The Conquest ship was old and outdated and the pools were WAY too small for the amount of people on board. We had 3 days at sea during our 8 day cruise and those days were honestly the worst. The main pool area was extremely loud with music and tons and tons of people. We are only 31 years old and the main pool has been where we have spent most of our time in the past, but it was not relaxing AT ALL this time, so we decided to spend our days at the adult pool. That was obviously much quieter, however, the pool was just as crowded. There were times that my husband and I wanted to go into the pool but had to wait until a few people got out because there was literally no room. When we did go in, we had to keep our hands to our sides and kind of hop to an open area to stand in the water hoping not to touch anyone else. Because the pool was so crowded and it was so small, the water didn't seem to filter because there was no water flow. There was a film on the water (probably from everyone's sunscreen) that made you feel gross when you even went into the pool. My husband and I didn't even put our head underwater because it was that gross.