Carnival Conquest Review
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We flew into the Hobby Airport at 12:30 am the night before our cruise. Since my cousin lives in Texas and planned on driving us to the port we didn't have to worry about hotels or transfers; we were able to stay at her house that night. We arrived in Galveston around 11:30 am and were on board by 12 or 12:30. We were pleasantly surprised at how quickly we made it through check in and to the Lido Deck. We tried to check out our cabin as soon as we boarded but were unable to get in it until 1:30 or so. Our cabin steward came in as soon as we opened the door and introduced herself; unfortunately, I didn't catch her name. She did a fine job with our cabin; nothing extraordinary, but we didn't really ask for anything. Our cabin was what we expected except for the sewer smell that we would occasionally get in the bathroom. It wasn't bad enough to complain about though. We were extremely happy with the location of our cabin since we could walk right out the door and be on the Lido deck. We didn't have any noise problems at all.
This is the first trip we took with the kids, but they never really did use the kids clubs. They spent most of the time with us. Our son (11) went a couple times, but didn't spend more than an hour. And our daughter (14) didn't have any desire to go hang out there. (she is a little more shy than our son)
We had late seating in the Monet dining room; which we ate in every night. Our waiters were Ricardo and Gun; they were amazing with the kids. Infact, the last night when our son was saying good bye to Gun he started to cry. We were not very pleased with the food in the dining room or else where. We had really been looking forward to the food but felt we could cook everything better ourselves. I think the only spice the chefs used was salt. Everything was salty and cold. The only night that was really good was the first formal night; I had pumpkin soup, shrimp cocktail, lobster, some prime rib and of course the awesome melting chocolate cake. I tried the pizza, burgers, and Sur Mer and I was disappointed in all of them.