Carnival Fascination Review
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Debarkation at Jacksonville is very easy. Shore porters are plentiful. Plenty of direction as to where to enter. Initial customs employee cordial and got us directed to the correct line to proceed. Counter customs employee was fast and friendly. We had our sail and sign cards, debarkation photo made and were on the lido deck eating by 12:30.
We had the Italian Buffet and it was great. Salads and desert bars were excellent. Choices of supplied drinks are still water, tea, lemonade ,coffee, milk (white and chocolate) and hot water with available various hot tea bags.
During the week we had excellent pizza and hot reuben sandwiches from the lido. We were a bit disappointed at the hamburgers this sailing. The patty had the flavor of having been cooked earlier and kept warm with water which I never had on previous cruises on Carnival. The breakfast buffet on Lido deck was very good and was kept full. Omelettes were very good. Lunch buffet was good but nothing outstanding. Not disappointing but nothing to be excited about. We chose to eat in the open seating dining room for lunch the last three days. The service was excellent and it was a welcome calming environment. However... the lunch menu is very limited.
Cabin Review
loved the balcony. Due to bad weather leaving Key West the balconies were all locked and the furniture stacked in the stateroom that night. Made for a very tight plight into bed !. Next day mid day they were reopened. !!!! A a bit frustrating though the night before the last sea day a note was left in the cabin saying please remove personal effects and stay out of balcony and keep door closed for "routine cleaning" to be done until noon. After losing one afternoon and night that was a bit disappointing. It was opened not long after we ate lunch though.