Carnival Victory Review
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realdealneal
6-10 Cruises • Age 30s
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Sail Date: Sep 2015
Cabin: Interior
This was my 10th cruise overall - 6th with Carnival. I would say that over that time I have been able to set a bar of expectations for a cruise that I feel should be met. And I have to say that this trip came up short. I was traveling with 2 friends, one a cruising newbie that I was hoping Carnival would make a good impression on.
We flew into Fort Lauderdale (FLL) on the Sunday before the cruise was due to leave and stayed at the Comfort Suites Airport & Cruise Port (Would highly recommend, excellent service, free shuttle to and from the airport and free breakfast was top notch). On embarkation day took the airport shuttle back to the airport and met the Carnival transfer on the lower level of the airport terminal. We waited for roughly 15 minutes before walking out to the bus. Cruise Line transfers always seem to be "have to fill the bus before we leave" situations, but the bus was comfortable, air conditioned and not overly crowded.
We made it to Miami after being stuck in a traffic jam for a good hour or so, dropped our bags at the curb and made it through security no problem. That's where the ease ended. The rest of embarkation was a mad house. They had two extremely long lines that we had to wait in to see someone in the check-in desk and receive our room keys. When we were finally called the gal behind the desk had a heavy accent and was a bit difficult to understand. We had our documents ready and in hand so the process went rather quickly (I found it interesting that she needed to see my friend's birth certificates, but said she did not need to see my passport). Got our keys and up the gangway we went.
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Interior
Cabin 4H
I took a gamble on this trip and booked a cabin that was forward and on a higher deck of the ship than I normally would go. I would say that we lucked out on the Panorama deck. We were on the top floor of the atrium elevators and the forward elevators have 6 elevators instead of the 4 shared mid-ship and aft. I have to say location wise the room was perfect, we could walk straight out onto the pool deck moving aft, and onto an open air deck moving forward to the front of the ship as well.
The cabin itself is rated for up to 5 people...and it shows. We had chips in the bathroom counter, scuffs and marks on the furniture (there was a cigarette burn in the chair) and obvious non-matching tile work in the bathroom (some of the grout was coming up towards the end of the trip). There was also a ring in the toilet and it smelled heavily of urine each time we opened the lid. We were given one glass to use in the restroom for 3 people (our steward was not the best). The medicine cabinet also would not close unless you gave it a decent shove. Lots of pale green and pink colors.
The bedding in the room has been updated and was comfortable. We had multiple light bulbs out in the cabin and several had been replaced with a different color florescent bulbs than had been previously installed.
The room also still has the old fashion tube TV (a Zenith Concierge to be exact), but didn't make much of a difference, because the satellite service was out on the ship for most of the cruise (bouncing DirectTV logo...the last night we didn't even get that, just got snow) but oddly enough the Carnival channels came in just fine. We were able to utilize the interactive system to check our sail & sign accounts without issue.
As a side note, the image that carnival has on their website for this category cabin is not an image of what the cabin actually looks like.
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