Carnival Elation Review

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Review for the Bahamas Cruise on Carnival Elation
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vanjello
10+ Cruises • Age 30s

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Sail Date: May 2017
Cabin: Interior

We chose this cruise because our friends were looking at something relatively affordable and not bad of a drive. The ship is older and smaller, but some public areas are nice, especially the promenade, atrium, spa, buffet, and dinning rooms. Other than that, the ship is quite dated, although some decks have been redone.

Embarkation was pretty straightforward, albeit parking was somewhat confusing. Debarkation, however, was awful. My party chose to roll off our luggage so we could get back home at a reasonable time. A few of us sat down at breakfast that morning in the dinning room for 30 seconds before we had to go back to our rooms for our luggage. The information sheet said that our deck would be leaving from 9:05-9:20. But at breakfast, the cruise director said that everyone had to be out of their rooms at 8:30. That information was not published anywhere nor was it on the TV. So we raced back to our rooms and got our stuff. We tried eating at the buffet but they finished breakfast up at 8:30 as well.

The cabin was dated, but it was suitable for two people. If you're trying to cram 5 people into a room, get a suite. Our friends had a 5 person interior room and they were legitimately on top of each other. Spending extra money on the suite is worth your sanity. Our bathroom had some mold in the shower and a hole in the door frame. The shower also flooded the bathroom a little bit, but I've ran into that problem on every cruise I've been on. The A/C did not work at all in my cabin nor in my friends' cabins. We called for maintenance but it never got fixed.

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