Carnival Victory Review

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Carnival Victory - Disappointing Ship in the Fleet

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Victory
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jmbest78
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Jan 2014
Traveled with children

We planned this cruise as a family celebration for my mother's 60th birthday. Everyone in the group of 8 are previous cruisers with Carnival so it was the logical choice. We were looking for a cruise shorter than 7 days to work with everyone's work schedules. We found the 4 night Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Victory sailing out of Miami. In September I cruised out of Miami and was surprised to find a Carnival Check-in Desk at the airport. We flew into Miami Airport and found the check-in process at the airport pretty quick and easy. The bus was waiting for us as we finished checking-in. (We had purchased our transfers ahead of time) A short bus ride to the dock and we were ready for our cruise vacation.

When you check-in at the airport, you get to by-pass all the lines at the port. By the time we arrived at the ship, our cabin was to be ready, so we went straight there to check it out and drop some things off. Entering our cabin, we noticed 2 things. The cabin was dirty and our air conditioning was not working. We left the cabin to look for our cabin steward, and not being able to find him, we went to guest services. I had brought a can of Lysol wipes as part of my norovirus prevention kit, so I was not concerned about the spills left on the counters. We notified guest services of our A/C problem and set out to find lunch. When we returned to the cabin after lunch the steward stopped and told us the A/C was down for maintenance, but will be back up soon. When we returned to the cabin for the night, the A/C was trickling out of the vent. The room was more bearable than before but not by any means acceptable. While preparing for bed, my wife and I began to notice more and more dirt that had not been cleaned up. Most of the horizontal surfaces had a build-up of dust. There was dried splatters on the mirrors and the picture frame. There was residue from a spill still on the vanity top. All of the light switches and reading lights had a build-up of filth around the switches and the crevices. In the bathroom, there was rust on the ceiling and hair in the shower, The door frame was rusted through on the bottom. The grout in the tile on the floor was either stained or missing. When I pulled back the bed, I found a fair amount of hair in the sheets.

The AC never worked real well the entire cruise. I went to bed warm each night and the cabin became hot and humid after every shower. I was disappointed the cabin steward never noticed or followed up on our A/C problem.

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Our cabin was dirty, small, hot and lacked amenities I have come to expect in Carnival's cabins. There was dried splatters on the mirrors and the picture frame. There was residue from a spill still on the vanity top. All of the light switches and reading lights had a build-up of filth around the switches and the crevices. In the bathroom, there was rust on the ceiling and hair in the shower, The door frame was rusted through on the bottom. The grout in the tile on the floor was either stained or missing. When I pulled back the bed, I found a fair amount of hair in the sheets. The A/C never worked real well the entire cruise. I went to bed warm each night and the cabin became hot and humid after every shower. There was no place to sit except for the bench in front of the vanity of a small uncomfortable chair pushed into the corner. You could only enter the bed from one side, so I had to crawl over or around my wife each time I entered or exited the bed. The cabin had no refrigerator. Our cabin steward didn't fill the ice bucket until the 3rd day and only after we found him and asked for it.

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