Carnival Magic Review

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Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Magic
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Kurt Cobain
6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Nov 2018
Cabin: Balcony
Traveled with children

I chose this cruise 8 months ago after a 7 day trip on the Carnival Dream. My plan was to take a trip on all the dream class ships. Now I am questioning this decision. The crew is tired and not up to par with any other cruise I have been on. The drinks were very syrupy sweet and weak lacking alcohol and taste as if they are premade. The food was by far the worst I have ever had on a cruise. We ate at the burger place and taco stand because they were the best. The MDR was awful and slow. One night I had a filet that was ordered medium shouted up well done and was about 3/8” thick. It almost seemed boiled and chewy. The buffet was always crowded or closed food was below average quality and taste. A few things such as the Asian ribs and a BLT sandwich were my only A+. The staff st the stir fry wok were making fun of people in their language if any one asked them anything. Everything that was open was crowed or closed no in between except after 7 pm. The lines would be 30/40 people deap at times tacos, burgers, buffet, pizza and bbq.

We missed a port at grand Turk due to a distress signal/report of help needed so we circled for hours to find out hours later we were not going to make it. The captain and crew knew we would not make it but withheld it from the passengers until 10:30am after they had been searching for 5/6hours and we were at least 4 hour from the port. We has a see day but the problem was they were not prepared for it one bit. Thousands of people where up getting ready to get off the ship then port cancelled and understaffed bars Barely open with massive lines and awful bartenders

Cabin Review

Balcony

Cabin 8A

Cabin was pretty standard balcony. It was above the pig and anchor bbq and they play loud music 15-8 hrs a day so sitting on the balcony was not as relaxing as it could have been.

Port Reviews

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata)

Went to sea adventure place for some sea animal shows and swimming

St. Thomas

Went to Megan’s bay via taxi truck thing. Very cool beach

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