Carnival Paradise Review

3.5 / 5.0
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Carnival Paradise is no Paradise

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Paradise
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cathydavitt5@gmail.com
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Aug 2016
Cabin: Ocean View

We chose this cruise based on the vacation dates we wanted to travel. We had never cruised out of Tampa and have family in the area so we thought we would try it.

We were disappointed in the overall service and lack of seaworthiness of the Carnival Paradise. This ship is older and clearly not well maintained. We had our itinerary changed during the journey due to the inability of the boat to cruise at certain speed to get to our destination. We challenge that Carnival was not aware that there were issues with this boat ahead of time and could have made cruisers aware and they chose not to. Overall that was the theme of the cruise- Carnival did not communicate or take any responsibility for the disruption . When you are a traveller everyone knows that things can happen but the lack of communication and lack of organization when these changes were made led to confusion at our ports of call and the timing of excursions. ( We went to Cozumel first and then Grand Cayman instead of original plan). Not only did we lose time at both Cozumel and Grand Cayman, but the time of reschedule of excursions was not communicated in Grand Cayman. The tender off the boat at Grand Cayman was not prioritized based on excursion time- it was unorganized chaos with an hour wait to tender.

The reason why this cruise was not rated terrible was that we really enjoyed the excursions. In Cozumel we did the Jaguar Bus and beach bbq . The ecological area was beautiful , amazing beach views ( the private beach area was disappointing ).The Grand Cayman excursion of sand bar and snorkel was amazing! The staff on this excursion was informative, friendly and made sure that everyone enjoyed themselves.

Cabin Review

Ocean View

Cabin 6E

The mirror vanity in the bathroom was rusted and did not open. We did not have a refrigerator in our room and we asked about we were told that our room was "not updated"-we were not aware prior.

Overall the space in the room was good.

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Tampa

Easy access to get on boat

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