Carnival Barcelona Cruise Reviews

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My brother Trevor and wife Lee Lee during breakfast ( my nephew T.J. standing directly behind them)
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My wife Geneva and two daughters ( Desiree and Imanne) during elegant evening event
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Me my two sons (Cortney and Elijah)and Triston (soon to be son in law) during elegant evening event
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Too many issues

Review for a Transatlantic Cruise on Carnival Freedom

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JimmyTheSaint
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

This was our third Transatlantic cruise with Carnival and by far the worst. If this had been our first Carnival cruise we'd never set foot again on a Carnival ship. The cruise got off to the worst possible start and never really recovered to an acceptable level. It started on a sour note with Embarkation and finished on a sour note with Disembarkation, the bit inbetween was only slightly ...
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Sail Date: October 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony


Carnival spares no effort to disappoint

Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on Carnival Horizon

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hflight
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

The Carnival organization should be recognized for its ability to take a brand new ship and reduce it to a floating tribute to poor food, bad service and mediocre entertainment. The food was cheap, overcooked and boring. The only possible exception was breakfast where Carnival staff had nothing to do with boxed cereal, yogurt and some fruits. Toast was dry and cold. Eggs were immersed in oil. ...
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Sail Date: April 2018

Cabin Type: Balcony


Only bad cruise ever

Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on Carnival Horizon

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paulja1
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

I chose it as I had never been on Carnival before and mistakingly thought being American and new it would be great, sadly the description didn't live up to reality. I have been with, RC, NCL, MSC previously so was able to compare. Food. Breakfast, very poor choices, only toasted bagel and toasted bread put out. Had to ask for untoasted. No different breads or batches such as crispy, ...
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Sail Date: April 2018


1st and last cruise with carnival

Review for a Europe - All Cruise on Carnival Horizon

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Joanne griffiths
10+ Cruises • Age 40s

We go in at least one cruise a year and have cruised with RCI, NCL, Disney, P&O and TUI in the past. Everything about Carnival came bottom of our list compared to the others. Food - hardly any choice, cold all Asian style food. Cabins- smallest we have ever stayed in. Wardrobe was only sufficient for 1 person. Air con didn’t work properly. There was drilling and banging going on all through ...
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Sail Date: April 2018

Cabin Type: Interior Upper/Lower

Traveled with children


A disappointment in vacationing

Review for a Transatlantic Cruise on Carnival Vista

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Mason Jahr
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

We chose to take the Vista's transatlantic re-positioning cruise because we found the travel itinerary of interest to us. The good: The Skyride. The specialty dining, in particular 555 Fahrenheit, and to a lesser degree the Italian Restaurant was very good. Afternoon tea in the main dining room was great with well prepared and delicious offerings every day that it was offered. Staff at ...
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Sail Date: October 2016


Poor Cruise

Review for a Europe - Western Mediterranean Cruise on Carnival Vista

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mktravel
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

Carnival Vista 29-07-16 to 06-08-16 Having taken a cruise on the Carnival Vista on the above dates all I can say is thank god this was not my first cruise because if it had been I would never cruise again! I think warning bells started to ring when we had to take all our luggage to the ship whereas on all the other cruise’s our luggage was taken from us at our home airport and delivered to ...
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Sail Date: July 2016

Cabin Type: Havana Aft-View Extended Balcony

Traveled with children


Bigger NOT Better

Review for a Europe - Western Mediterranean Cruise on Carnival Vista

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Aquarius115
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

The Food has become a POOR selection. Its not the original Carnival food that made it something to talk about. Its more Corporate. The Lido buffet sitting area increased by 10percent. Not enough to handle the 1000 more people on the ship. Employees cannot keep up with the demand of keeping dirty tables clean and it is VERY CROWDED and unable to find sitting. They do now have an eating area ...
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Sail Date: July 2016

Cabin Type: Interior Upper/Lower


Avoid Carnival Vista; too noisy!

Review for a Europe - Western Mediterranean Cruise on Carnival Vista

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Finshell
6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

Worst cruise ever. I have been on a few cruises and this was the worst. Our main gripe was the noise, we stayed in room 6241 Fwd avoid this area. After the shows, 6 nights out of 8 a DJ set up his equipment and we had to endure boom boom boom until 3am. We complained and we were told they would monitor the noise. They didn't even come to our room to see how bad it was and didn't ask the DJ to turn ...
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Sail Date: June 2016


I want my old Carnival back

Review for a Transatlantic Cruise on Carnival Sunshine

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drrobg
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

I want my old Carnival back, I just got off of the Sunshine on it's transatlantic 16 night cruise. In one word HORRIBLE, and I will detail most of the things that went wrong. You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, this kept coming to me over and over during the cruise. I am a platinum member and should be a diamond since I never got credit for the cruises I took on the Marti Gras, and ...
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Sail Date: November 2013


Ship of the Lost

Review for a Transatlantic Cruise on Carnival Sunshine

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Garden Party
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

I'm an avid cruiser platinum with Carnival and many other lines. On Sunshine tranatlantic cruise from Barcelona to New Orleans, If you were a first time cruiser you might think everything was ok,or if you just cruise to drink and don't care about much this ship would be fine. But as one who cruises for the sites and things to do on a cruise ship I'm very disappointed, they say this is like a new ...
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Sail Date: November 2013


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