Carnival Pride Review
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We sailed the Carnival Pride on Sept 22nd, headed to Grand Turk, Half Moon Cay, and Freeport. This was our sixteenth cruise, and our fifth on Carnival.
Embarkation: Baltimore is a DREAM embarkation point. Helpful, friendly people directing you where you need to go; handoff of checked luggage to smiling folks who don’t shake you down for a tip to carry your stuff from your car to the waiting luggage trolley two feet away; parking that is easy to find and access; an embarkation terminal that is not confusing . . . well, you get the idea. We arrived at the parking lot at 10:30 am and were on the ship by 12:30 pm . . . this despite a very delayed disembarkation, if what we saw was any indication.
(Op/Ed: it’s a crying shame that Carnival chose to pull out of Baltimore in 2015 rather than reckon with the new EPA fees. The Future Cruise Consultant’ on our cruise lamented that they just COULDN’T make it work in Baltimore in 2015, despite all reports of the ship consistently being full. I’m not buying it: I bet they could have passed those onto their cruisers and STILL would have had the huge capacity/on board revenue they swear they’ve been seeing at this port. Something doesn’t add up. Just MHO.)
Cabin Review
7211 is a square interior cabin (rather than a rectangular interior cabin). Can’t say if it’s more or less overall square footage, but we liked the longer desk/vanity/drawers area, and didn’t miss the second side chair. We’d book this cabin in a heartbeat due to its convenient layout and proximity to all things above and below.We note that we had a ghost in the shower. Seriously: at 12:45 am, there would be this constant (and LOUD) gurgling from the shower drain that lasted for a couple of minutes . . . which stopped, and then restarted seven minutes afterward. The last couple of mornings, it had a third round at 6:15 am. We think it has something to do with them draining the system . . . the guest services staff were very sympathetic, but no one seemed to know what was going on. This is the first time we’ve ever experienced such random weirdness. It won’t deter us from booking this kind of cabin again, but caveat emptor.