Carnival Ecstasy Review

3.5 / 5.0
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3rd and worst cruise of all!

Review for the Bahamas Cruise on Carnival Ecstasy
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2-5 Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Feb 2017

I chose this cruise because my boyfriend and I wanted to get away for his birthday. He does not yet have a passport, so it was the perfect opportunity to travel out of the country and he not need one. This was his 1st cruise, but my 3rd, so the experience for both of us was quite different.

It all started while booking the cruise. The first incident occured when I booked the cruise and it would not allow me to add/change my boyfriend's name in the booking info, which resulted in me having to call to have that done. Once that was completed, I reviewed our info and realized that they had us in twin beds, so I immediately edited the option to make it a full. I then recieved my conformation and again realized that they had put us in a room with a pull down bunk. I don't recall the wording, but whatever it was caused me to once again call Carnival to confirm what type of room they had us in. That in itself was a NIGHTMARE!! I was on the phone with the young lady for an 1 1/2 hours, in which she attempted to transfer me to guest services twice, the 1st time whoever answered wouldnt take the call from her, and when she was finally able to get the 2nd person on the line, it was mysteriously disconnected. Needless to say, my issue was NOT resolved prior to getting on the boat. Mind you, my boyfriend is over 6ft tall, and 200+lbs, & a twin bed is NO place for him, let alone ME! Upon our arrival, I noticed right away from the outside that the ship was not as big as the others I've been on, and not as spectacular. Our room was extremely small, but spacious enough for the 2 of us, however the bed situation presented a HUGE PROBLEM! The bathroom in the room reeked! It smelled so awful that I continuously burned incense and kept the bathroom door closed! Turn down service was not what it should've been being that we called down to guest services at least 3x's(5day cruise) for additional towels & soap.

The food was subpar, and not very good. My boyfriend looked forward to breakfast daily but after that was over it. Guy's burger joint was horrible! and the best thing the ship had to offer were the taco/burritos which was only opened 1day for about 2hrs. The drinking water started out tasting ok, but as the days went on, it began to taste just like the smell that was coming out of the bathroom in our room. The entertainment/Activities kept us occupied, and besides my boyfriend I only thoroughly enjoyed the Nassau Bahamas port! However Half Moon Cay, despite being beautiful was boring with no other activities outside of staying in the water all day.

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Nassau

Great time! Because I visited the island before and took a tour the last time, I wanted to do something different and not be restricted by an excursion, we just wanted to do our own thing, and that we did! We rented a moped once we arrived and rode over the toll bridge to Atlantis and stayed at the beach, then we rode around some more saw the sites and visited another beach before we returned the moped.

Half Moon Cay

The water was absolutely breath taking and beautiful but there was nothing to do on the island,

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