Carnival Pride Review

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CARNIVAL PRIDE SEPT 25 TO OCT 2, 2011

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margaritaman
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Sep 2011

Hi, we are first time cruisers but I am going to give you an honest review of what I thought. I will post a real review with pics soon. (I took 544 pics)! We are from Ontario Canada, so we left Saturday morning around 10:00 am. We got to the buffalo border crossing around 12:30. Note. I had just plugged my GPS in and it wouldn't come on. ( the daughter had it in her car for the past 2 months...go figure) anyway I did print a mapquest backup but it was from a different entry point into the states so we were on our own ! Man how much I have depended on technology and didn't even know!! Anyway after a few turn arounds and getting directions thanks to the peo

ple at the toll booths we did eventually get to Baltimore about 11:30 pm that night. Yup long drive, but it was shorter on the way home. We stayed at the holiday inn express at the stadiums. I was happy with the hotel, nice rooms and a great breakfast in the morning. Because we got to the hotel so late all the early shuttles to the port were booked. We got the 11:30 a.m shuttle. Well that shuttle didn't show up until 11:50 and by the time they got everyones luggage loaded and left it was noon. We got to the port of Maryland about 15 mins later, prob only 10 min drive but it just seemed longer. The Embarkation was a breeze, from the time we got to the port until we got on the ship was only 15 mins. Amazing. Of course the rooms were not ready but we went and found out where ours was and asked if we could leave our carry on in the room. They said no problem so we didnt have to lug around our baggage until the rooms were actually ready !! We went to the lido and got.....wait for it.....no not food...we got our first drinks! Which was pretty much all we did until sail away. We were in our rooms by 2:45 and I have to tell you I was impressed. They were bigger than I thought they would be. We had a balcony room # 8250 in the aft of the ship. It turned out to be awesome as we only had to come out of our room and walk up one flight of stairs and we were in the mermaids grlle. and no we never heard noise from up there or chairs shuffling or anything from our balcony and I spent alot of time out there. We did have the Clampetts next door who always left their balcony light on and whose kid bought a conch shell at one of the ports and continued to blow through it and yell through it and sing through it seems everytime I was on the balcony. Kind of funny now, but at the time I was getting pissed! Anyway I digress. We did the muster drill which was actually kind of fun, could be that I was already feeling the few DOD's that I had. When that was over we finally sailed away about 5:15 pm. We hung around the Lido deck (venus pool) and listened to the calypso band and met new people. We then got ready for our 8:15 dinner seating. I know people bitch about the set times, but I thought it was excellent. I did not want the earlier seating cause I didnt want to have to rush to dinner if we were at port etc... This worked out and I always brought wine from my room that we took on board, and oh ya we sneaked a 4 litre bag of wine in our luggage. I found the service prompt and excellent. Our waiter was fantastic, and made our eating experiences all the better. WHenever I ordered something he would say do you want 4 or five of them, and I would always say no just one. ( didnt want to ruin the booze buzz!)Having said this, if I was waiting for the bar steward to order booze from, they were infrequent and sometimes never saw them at all. Glad I was only a floor from my room so I could always go and fill back up.

Sorry, I realize this is long and we are only on our first night! Anyway after dinner we went to the karaoke, and ya lots hate it and lots like it. I loved it, met great people and had lots of fun. About 1:30 a.m I was in bed.

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We had cabin 8250 balcony room. It was great, lots of storage space, and the balcony was awesome, being able to look forward at most of the ship. I have booked the same room again. Also awesome to be able to go up one flight of stairs to the Mermaids Grille and the Lido without having to take the elevator. Never heard any sound from the above deck.

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