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Carnival Luminosa Cruise Reviews

4.0 / 5.0
25 reviews
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2.6
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"Free movie selection in the cabins was a plus for watching in bed, but the ship lacked a dedicated sports bar for watching sports on a large screen...A highlight for me was free drinks including cocktails at the Captains parties x 2, was a great night...."Read More

Defiant1

6-10 Cruises

Age 60s

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Terrible

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

Beckyntim
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s

Started off with medical emergency no Dr available. Needed medication and couldn’t find my bag. My husband went searching and found it on a different floor in a random hallway. Just sitting there. The ship isn’t comfortable and there’s not much going on. Staff searching is a mess. Wanted kids to take off beanies to look under them. Food is terrible. Not a lot of options. Can’t find soup and no ...
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Sail Date: May 2023

Traveled with children


Worse experience ever

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

Elnunep
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

Carnival Luminoso cruise out of Seattle, Washington to Alaska, is the worst cruise you can book they will lose your luggage to start ,on the dinner table fine pubic hairs on the cloth tops and lousy food service we spent 2 1/2 hours to be served at dinner Customer service is always backed up to be able to resolve any problems you have due to understand staffed or they just don’t care. at the ...
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Sail Date: May 2023


Not our usual great experience

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

Gurli76
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

Staff overall is great. Loved the dance shows, loved the "mustache" guy sorry I lost his name, loved some of the photo staff, dancers/singers great, dining room staff was hit or miss, I Mean table 169 wonderful!! Arnawa is amazing!!! The girl going around with the shots wonderful! Ports were great, excursions were fantastic, highly recommend zipline in Skagway and the crab boat in Ketchikan! From ...
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Sail Date: May 2023


Great Alaska Cruise

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

rbos4988
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

This was our first cruise so we don't have anything to compare it to, but I know when I'm having a good time and if I consider the service we received to be good and overall we thought it was very good. All of the staff was very helpful and courteous. The first morning at the breakfast buffet was a bit hectic especially with a lot of people not setting their time back an additional hour which ...
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Sail Date: May 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony


Alaskan cruise

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

Hyperchild
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

We choose Alaska to check off our bucket list. Over all we had a great experience, good food and wonderful excursions. I have cruised with Carnival for over 20 years and this is my 6th cruise. Had this been my 1st cruise it probably would have been my last, I did not like the ship and how the Lido deck was set up. To eat up there we had to stand in long slow lines and seating to eat was at times ...
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Sail Date: May 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony

Traveled with children


DONT DO IT!!!!!

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

Chrissy3204
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

The food was terrible! The food was always closed! If the food was open the line was so long! Then you get some generic hard store brand bread with one piece of meat and some chips!! The bed felt like sleeping on a box spring that some got from the landfill. The public restrooms were always dirty with overflowing toilets. There was no laundry on the ship. You could pay $15 to the room steward to ...
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Sail Date: May 2023

Traveled with children


Sailor beware

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

Hulagirl024
6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

We chose this cruise for the Alaska itinerary. The ports were amazing. However, the ship, service and food left so much to be desired. Everything from start to finish was extremely disorganized. Overall, the staff were pleasant but most of them just didn't seem to have been trained properly. This was our 9th cruise with Carnival and up until this cruise we've been very happy with Carnival. Our ...
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Sail Date: May 2023


The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

LolaEtype
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

My sister took us on an Alaska cruise (thanks sis). We chose the Luminosa over the Spirit. Hindsight says we probably made a mistake. This was the first sailing of the Luminosa from Seattle, 4 May 2023 The Good: The food in the dining room was about as good what we've received on every other Carnival ship we've been on. The wait staff was attentive. The cruise director and "Fun Squad" ...
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Sail Date: May 2023

Cabin Type: Aft-View Extended Balcony


Worst cruise ever - being covid negative and being locked in a cabin with a covid positive person - what do you think happened?

Review for a Transpacific Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

Fredette
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

BOARDING: This cruise did not start well. The line to board was not something I have ever experienced before - as this was my 15th cruise I had experienced everything from "almost instant boarding" to "wait in line" but nothing prepared us for the more than three hour wait - and we had already done the online check in! The ship was supposed to leave at 4pm, but they hadn't boarded all the ...
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Sail Date: April 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony


Worst cruise ever

Review for a Transpacific Cruise on Carnival Luminosa

Sonny1690
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

this is the worst ship I have ever been on for maintenance and services that ship is not been fully refinished the outside of the ship is in poor shape the flooring or deck of the ship is very dangerous to walk on my wife had a major fall the first day on the ship and received major injuries the ship head explain they do not have time to repair so we had to leave the ship 5 days later and fly home ...
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Sail Date: April 2023

Cabin Type: Balcony

Traveled with disabled person


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