I had been on a 5 day cruise with Carnival before and absolutely LOVED the experience so I was looking forward to this 3-day to Baja for quite some time with my mother and two friends. The first thing we noted upon the ship was that hardly any of the staff was smiling or at all friendly for that matter. We greeted a few and either the smile was brief and somewhat annoyed or they just looked at us as if we were aliens. We quickly concluded the second day on the ship that some of their reactions could've have been a direct result of the passengers.

Chaos was the kindest way of putting it. There was hardly any order. People were getting horrifically drunk to the point of stumbling into complete strangers, throwing up, getting into fights. I was shocked. The cruise before was very elegant and had little tolerance for rowdiness but in this cruise even security just turned their gaze away.

The Dinning room was the worse experience. Absolutely NO order. On one night in the dinning room Carnival typically has a black tie attire night. Meaning the ladies dress in their gowns and the men in their suits. At the 5-day ship if one wasn't wearing this they were not admitted into the dinning room. Wearing our dresses, we entered the dinning room that night only to feel extremely overdressed. Some women and men were in their black tie attire, while others weren't even wearing shoes! The entire atmosphere was ruined because of their lack of rule enforcement. And then came the last straw. Read more