Carnival Elation Review

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ROUGH SEAS

Review for the Mexican Riviera Cruise on Carnival Elation
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bellacruzicee
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Oct 2009
Cabin: Ocean View

We boarded the boat and went to our room which was decorated as I specified for my husband's birthday. My husband and I walked around and everything was good until the safety drill. It was the worst drill we have ever had! They were so unorganized. I couldn't hear a thing the staff was saying because they couldn't even keep the other passengers quiet. It was also very long because they were so unorganized. The rest of the cruise was ok. The room was a little run down and could use some updates. Today as I was taking a shower so that we could disembark the cold water turned off completely and almost burned me, then the hot water turned off also. I waited to see what would happen but they didn't even know it had happened. I called the front desk and they didn't really seem to care at all. I waited about 20 minutes freezing while I waited until it was finally turned back on just for the water to come out BLACK!!!! I called the front desk again but this girl cared less than the first one. I just waited for the water to come back to normal and then brushed my teeth with bottled water.

On the second day the water was rocking the boat back and forth quite violently and it was about 3/4 of the day until the CD finally said anything about us sailing through a TROPICAL STORM! They did give out Dramamine to everyone and provided bags to throw up in at every elevator. We had another rough ride on the way back up on Sunday but were never told what it was until we arrived late to San Diego on Monday, also my husband was told to report to immigration since he is a resident and not a citizen at 6:30 am and there was never an announcement that postponed it since we arrived late and my husband and others that waited an hour and a half were the last ones to be taken care of. they took care of the stragglers that didn't show up until 8-8:30 first. How rude was that? He couldn't even come back to the room and relax as promised in the letter that they give out to all the residents and visitors.

If it wasn't for the rough weather and staff that didn't care it would have been good. We loved Cabo and were happy that we didn't fall off the tender boats in the extremely choppy water. I think we were much happier on the Liberty in May. Oh well back to the carribean or if we sail Mexico again it will be on another boat.

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Ocean View

Cabin 6E
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