Took a recent cruise we took on Carnival Paradise. We have been with carnival twice before, and on several other cruise lines. This time I took my entire family and they were so excited about the experience since we had talked it up. However, within an hour of being on the ship my brother asked me why the employees were treating us as if we were prisoners being transported. I did not have an answer for him and this was the first time I felt like it too. Not sure if it is an attitude difference between the pacific crew and the Caribbean crew. We take most our trips in the Caribbean and are always met with smiles, but not this time.

Not only was the attitude horrible, there was also a lot of things physically wrong. Below are the ones I remember. Needless to say, we did not have a good time. It is truly unfortunate, I wanted to make sure my parents, my brother and his family had trusted me in selecting carnival and the whole thing made me look bad in front of them.

• The TV in the room did not work. It took a trip from three different people over a four hour period to get it to work. That is a lot of wasted time on a 36 hour cruise Read more