Carnival Splendor Review

First Timeas a family

Review for the Mexican Riviera Cruise on Carnival Splendor
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PAW4344
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Aug 2009
Traveled with children

Our family of 4 decided to take a cruise as this year's annual family vacation. Although we generally enjoyed our cruise, we will most likely pick a different cruise line next time. The decor was not our style and sharing a ship with 3,700 other passengers is also something we won't do again. If you want to party into the early morning hours or beyond every night and you don't mind around the clock noiseCarnival is for you.

We simply felt that no matter how hard we tried, there was always noise. Whether it was 50 people packed into one of the pools trying to "out yell" each other, or performances by musicians that were amplified way too much, or the karaoke expert who thinks that bad singers will sound better the louder they arealways noise.

Food: could have been better, especially on the first night. We were shocked to receive a salmon apetizer the first night that contained 3 small cubes of salmon amongst a whole bunch of lettuce and soggy croutons. Very disappointing. In general we felt that the buffets served better food than the dining rooms, with the exception of The Pinnacle. Had it not been for the outstanding attention provided to us by our dining room servers Sam and Sirimon, we would have chosen the buffet most nights.

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