Carnival Spirit Review

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Spirit in Mexico

Review for the Mexican Riviera Cruise on Carnival Spirit
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4bolts
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Oct 2009

Well we made it down to the port at 1230. Drove in and hailed a porter to take the 5 bags we were checking along with $10 and headed over to the entrance and waited in line for security. No problems there and they were letting people through that had open containers of water. Our 2 bottles of champagne were not even questioned in one bag. Walked into the next corral and received our flu survey. The check in line had only us in it and went very quickly. The ship wasn't due in until 3 and boarding wouldn't start until 4ish. They gave us a secure place to drop our carry-on's and then carnival provided a bus to Sea Port Village since the ship was late. We came back around 3:15 and they had just finished calling zone 1 and since we were in zone 2, we had no wait in the terminal. We picked up our bags and headed to the line for the pictures

Our room was ready so we unpacked what we had, found our room steward for ice for the champagne and then hung out over the balcony looking for our friends. They came to the port later and it took them over 3 hours to get from start to finish. 2 hours in the tent waiting for pictures. So of course I took pictures of these little people on the ground and then headed out to see what the ship looked like and what I could get out of the way early. We bought the premium wine package and then set out for the dining room to wait for everyone to show up. It was a free for all dining experience and the entire dining staff looked very tired and rushed. Turns out they were new to the Mex. Riv. and some were unfamiliar with the ship. That is what they told us but it seemed like the ship wouldn't change architecturally inside and the crew came with the ship from Ensenada/Hawaii. Anyway, the food in the empress dining room was okay, not spectacular, and it was warm at least and you could order as much as you wanted to. The room had the beds pushed together for a king and there was plenty of room under the bed for the luggage. all the valuables went into the safe and hubby used his sail and sign card to close it before I could stop him. The safe and the card worked fine the entire trip.

Our first caper said the life vest drill wouldn't be until 10am the next morning so our big meet and greet at the sports bar was shot. Then the drill announcement didn't take place as scheduled so we wandered down to the bar anyway and horrors, there was no one manning the bar and the TV's were not on. The bar doesn't open until 11 or 12, depending on who you asked.

Cabin Review

Cabin 7D

There was plenty of room under the bed for our suitcases and we brought 7. The larger hard shell was placed in one of the closets.

the shower needs to have a bar placed in there for people to hold onto in rough weather. Our friend fell during rough seas and she now has two crushed vertebras and is in horrible pain.

We liked being at the front of the ship. I wouldn't recommend going much further up as you can see into the balconies from the out hanging on the lido deck. There was not much traffic and is close enough to the elevators. It is a long way to the dining room but gives you plenty of time to walk off the food and take photos outside before you change out of the formal clothes.

There were many dolphins, sharks (cool) and flying fish at the front of the ship as the waves broke.

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