Carnival Splendor Review

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Review for the Mexican Riviera Cruise on Carnival Splendor
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carnivalanna
6-10 Cruises • Age 30s

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Sail Date: Feb 2011
Cabin: Balcony
Traveled with children

OMG! I know it wasn't Carnivals fault but it took us 4hrs to get on the ship, and we got to the ship at 1:30pm. I am sure most people got there about 10am or 11am...imagine there wait! the reason for the long long wait was there were only 2 federal custom employees working. Only 2 people checking everyone off the ship and everyone on the ship. So the wait got backed up. No one wants to start a vacation standing in the cold for 4 hours. It took us an hour alone (on top of the 4 hour wait) to find the check in desk. This part was carnivals fault. . . . they set up desks outside the terminal instead on inside were there are lines and organization. I have no idea why they made us wait outside. We got on the boat around 5:30 and our room was ready! The lido deck had food out however my partner and I didn't partake because our dinner seating was at 6pm. We did make a trip to the bar, we needed a drink to start the vacation!

Food was hit or miss , I think that goes for every cruise. we ate breakfast on the lido deck every morning. The best thing was a bagel, grapefruit and cup of coffee. Everything else was cold. Cold eggs cold French toast ect.. I didn't try the omelet station but I heard good things. We hit the lido again for lunch, one day we had hamburgers from the grill, and they were great! one day a sandwich from the deli, I asked for extra meat and chesses and omg it was yummy! Another day I eat lido food, it was left over's from the night before. I didn't mind but they could have gotten more creative. The build your own burrito bar was GREATTTTT! I have a bean, chesses, and guacamole burro and yum yum yum! Then next day I had the Mongolian gril (waited in a line of 15 people for 45 min) if I knew this grill was here I would have ate lunch here every day! It is like a fire and ice restaurant. You get 2 bowls, the fist bowl you fill with your noodle type, the second with all the vegetables you want. (the vegetable choices were great and very fresh) then you pick your meat and sauce. They cook it right there in a Wok, give it to you piping hot! It was perfect! They had a midnight Mexican buffet one night, the min chimms were good, but everything else was too spicy for me, my partner loved it! The chocolate affaire was mid day and it was ok. For some reason there cakes are always gross. . . . They did have homemade donates that they dipped in chocolate, and good ice cream too.

Service: lets start with the positives. My room steward was awesome! He always filled every container I had with ice. My bar drinks came in fun glasses, if I left them on the counter dirty her washed them out. I always drink water in the middle on the night. And he noticed I had a glass by the bed. So at night (for turn down service) he actually filled my glass with ice water! Guest service was super friendly, the understood everything I asked for. Pool deck service was great, the waiters were fast with your drinks and ready to get you more without ever having to look for them. Now the negative.... Room service you suck! It took one and a half hours to get our lunch, mid night snack took one hour, breakfast was an hour late. We kept ordering it b/c it was really good. But how can they expect a tip when there service sucked? The main dining room: I loved our waiter; he was really friendly and talked about his life with us. I really liked him as a person. However, he only had 3 tables of 8 to deal with, he also had a busser.

Cabin Review

Balcony

Cabin 8C

great balcony, just don't be loud b/c the people next to you can hear everything! lots of clothes space, if you like to hang you stuff, bring your own hangers they only gave us 15. across from my room was the steward stock room i never heard a peep. and i would rather be in that room then across from a nosie inside room. when i booked this room i thougt it was too close to the elevator but it wasn't i never heard the elevator nosie or people from there ever!

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