Carnival Breeze Review
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Overall ship look and feel New and clean. These are two huge plus factors this ship has routing for it. The pools were warm not overly busy which surprised me, and the waterworks was fantastic. Two main waterslides and both had minimal line-ups.
The adults area is was on the top deck forward, which made reading near impossible... crazy wind! Good luck finding chairs to sit it, clearly this space is not large enough to accommodate the need. No adult only pool to relax by.
The pool deck was very over-crowded with lounge chairs and the set up is poor. You'll find people are squeezing in near impossible walk-spaces to get to their lounge chair. Towels are not readily available and will need to be "checked out" with your sail and sign card. As for the interior, the ship layout is pure chaos. The two main restaurants which are both two levels run the full width of the ship, meaning, you can pass by them! Since the shops, lounges and theatres also occupy these same decks, it requires passengers to go up levels walk thru stateroom areas and then back down/up to the desire area of the ship..... a ridiculous design and extra load /wait on the already high demand elevators. Leaving the ship on port days was also crazy... think.. 3600 passengers and everyone debarks though ONE.. yes ONE gangway!! People were nose to nose waiting 3 decks up. It was just a plain mess.
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Balcony
Our stateroom was nice. Average size, plain, bare bones, no clock, no curtain between the bed and living area (a nice to have when you are travelling with children if you're wanting some privacy while getting dressed). We had an aft view balcony which offers a fabulous view, but we paid for an extended balcony and the balcony rail tilted on such an angle that truly our usable space was the same as any other balcony, it just cost more!! Our stateroom attendents were very pleasant, although I was surprised when on by day 2, they had not made my sons bed into a sofa during the day. When I asked if this could be done to give us some space he hesitated took a breath and said... Umm.. I guess we could do that, he made it clear it was extra work on his part. Other cruise lines I sailed with this was just a given. it was at the back of the ship.. which was quiet.. a bit of a walk to the elevator but worth the trade off.