Carnival Pride Review

Beautiful ship - but nothing to do but spend money!!!

Review for the Bahamas Cruise on Carnival Pride
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crissiewithtulips
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Sep 2010
Cabin: Premium Balcony

Ok - I'm going to try to be brief here- this was my 9th cruise and the worst one. Ship was very nice and so was our balcony cabin. Very spacious and clean. We ate in the dining room several times and food was great. Was a little upset thought because we asked for a table for 2 but had to sit with another couple. Dining room is your best bet. The buffet (only one) food was horrible. The desserts were always good though in the buffet. There are NO midnight buffets - except one night they had crappy dried up Mexican buffet - very low standards. They do have the buffet grill open from 11:30 pm - 1 but it was always hot dogs and hamburgers along w/ fries and potato salad. They have 4 buffet stations but only once is dedicated to sandwiches and one for buffet and other 2 always closed. We had to wait in line 20 minutes one night for dinner - and it was crappy. When we sat down to eat our slop, we were watching the crew members standing aside pointing at the long line at buffet and apparently laughing at how long the line was......They had a 24 hour pizza place - that was good but how much pizza can you eat. Room service is ok and limited and always a 45 minute wait. Gross Coffee - tasted recycled, very muddy.

The shows after dinner stunk -always danced and sung - they actually lip synced on some of the songs and faked instrument playing. They were lame. They had one comedian one nite that was ok. They of course had bingo like 3 times a day and a few lame trivia games. There was not much to do at all (I am in my early 30s and love to do just about anything). They target people to spend money at bingo and at the casino. NO free drinks at casino.

We went to play at the arcade (just my boyfriend and I) and they had maybe 15 games to play. We played them all and all were broken but 1. We complained to management and they said they would check it out. They came back to us stating that they were all fine yet he did refunded us the money we spent in there. PLease - we're not dummies - they were broken.

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