Carnival Splendor Review

4.0 / 5.0
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Great ship. Don't bother with art auction if you won "free" art

Review for the Southern Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Splendor
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6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Aug 2016
Cabin: Balcony
Cabin view of desk with safe.  Inside the cabin door on the right of the safe is a small refrigerator.
View of cabin's bathroom sink
View of cabin's bathroom shower and toilet
This is to show that the cabin is right across the hall from the crew's door they use to enter and exit the hallway with their noisy mop buckets, laundry hamper, etc.  The crew door is right behind me when I took this picture.  Plus the elevator lobby is right around the corner.  We were given this room as an upgrade by Carnival.
This is the opposite view of cabin location to crew door, to show that the cabin is right across the hall from the crew's door they use to enter and exit the hallway with their noisy mop buckets, laundry hamper, etc.  The crew door is right behind me when I took this picture.  Plus the elevator lobby is right around the corner.  We were given this room as an upgrade by Carnival.
Gold Pearl dining room on night in which servers entertained us.
View of Carnival Conquest docked right across from us at Grand Turk.
View of Carnival Conquest docked right across from us at Grand Turk.
Big screen at main center pool.  Pool has a retractable enclosure roof.  As you can tell, the roof is open.
Night time pic of ship docked at Aruba.
Night time pic of ship docked at Aruba.
View of laundry room which is located on the opposite hallway from cabin 9261

Just got back from a beautiful 8 day cruise off of Splendor (Aug 13 - 21, 2016).

Splendor is very typical with other Carnival ships like Liberty and Legend down on the deck where the casino, clubs, piano bar is located. The ships decorations are a bit over the top, especially with all the pink donuts and spots wall paper everywhere. One nice touch is at the main center pool which has movable enclosure for bad weather.

Our cabin # 9261, deck 9 starboard side, is great location to the pool, buffet and elevator to lower decks, spa above, but lousy location because it's right across from crew entrance door where they enter and exit with their carts, mop buckets, etc.....too noisy, elevator and pool when people are still pump up in the middle of the night and talking loudly and kids running around. Cabin have 2 beds which were put together for us, sofa, table, small desk, frig and safe in cabinet, plenty of closet space, bathroom with shower. Note: these rooms and bathrooms are bigger than Norwegian Dawn's room and bathroom. Cabin balcony has 2 chairs and a table. Very close to deck 9 laundry room which is just at the other side of the elevator lobby on the port side cabin hallway.

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Balcony

Cabin 8B

Our cabin # 9261, deck 9 starboard side, is great location to the pool, buffet and elevator to lower decks, spa above, but lousy location because it's right across from crew entrance door where they enter and exit with their carts, mop buckets, etc.....too noisy, elevator and pool when people are still pump up in the middle of the night and talking loudly and kids running around. Cabin have 2 beds which were put together for us, sofa, table, small desk, frig and safe in cabinet, plenty of closet space, bathroom with shower. Note: these rooms and bathrooms are bigger than Norwegian Dawn's room and bathroom. Cabin balcony has 2 chairs and a table. Very close to deck 9 laundry room which is just at the other side of the elevator lobby on the port side cabin hallway.

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