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	Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 50 - 65 Cruise Experience: 2 - 3 cruises Traveler Type: Family w/older children Stateroom Type: Balcony A Beautiful New Ship by A Traveler from Indiana Sailing date: Apr 2012 Pros: Lots to do Cons: Disembarkation was a bottleneck We were impressed that we didn't feel crowded with so many passengers, though we're not sun worshippers who had to get up early to get a prime location... Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 50 - 65 Cruise Experience: 4 - 6 cruises Traveler Type: Family w/young children Stateroom Type: Balcony The ship is to big by A Traveler from battletown, ky Sailing date: Apr 2012 Pros: Ship was beautiful Cons: Way to crowded they added to many rooms and not enough public spaces. You couldn't get a chair on lido. You had to show up 30-45 minutes before a show to get a seat and I still missed the comedy shows because they were full and locked the doors. I will go back to smaller ships. I loved the Valor. Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities What I got to see of it. Children's Programs 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 30 - 49 Cruise Experience: 4 - 6 cruises Traveler Type: Family w/young children Stateroom Type: Inside Magic is magic by Mark h from Texas Sailing date: Feb 2012 Pros: The boat- the people, the food, camp carnival Cons: The guests/people that complain about anything in life while onboard The ship is amazing- impeccably cleaned everywhere. The people are great although they should give the omelette guys some espresso to put a little pep in their step!!! Food was great- i will never understand how people complain about the food- Do you eat like this at home? if so then you can complain- otherwise figure out what it would cost to eat on land all day non stop as so many people do- it looks like the last supper for some Ship Details: Ship Quality a huge boat but never felt crowded- some lines at peak times but we avoided the food rush Dining/Food really good food, nice variety Stateroom Quality clean- large, well maintained Ship Staff Quality everyone was great Entertainment & Activities live music is gone on lido but plenty of other live musiscians around the boat Children's Programs camp carnival will keep us coming back over and over 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 65+ Cruise Experience: 4 - 6 cruises Stateroom Type: Balcony Disappointing cruise experience by Charles R from Austin, TX Sailing date: Feb 2012 Pros: Departing from Galveston - within easy driving distance Cons: Tiny cabin, long lines, few interesting activities The ship was huge and this was the primary problem. They put in lots of extra (very small) cabins, but didn't increase the "commons" areas proportionately. Long lines. Dining "your time" was a disaster on several occasions (lines again - even a pager to summon us). Limited room service menu. Room service not delivered on one occasion Ship Details: Ship Quality Ship was clean and well decorated Dining/Food Food was good overall - The "your time" dining was generally not acceptable - long lines on occasion - had to stand in line for over 30 minutes just to get pager so that we could wait another 30 minutes - will never do this again Stateroom Quality Tiny! Even with balcony we felt very cramped. Not even a chair in room Very clean - stewart did good job in keeping cabin clean and neat Ship Staff Quality Staff very friendly and generally helpful - sometimes too helpful. My wife uses a cane and felt rushed by staff who wanted to "grab" her tray and get her to a table rather than allowing her to look over selections Entertainment & Activities Not much variety "Talent" not very talented 3 out of 5 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 65+ Cruise Experience: 7+ cruises Traveler Type: Couple Stateroom Type: Inside My 10th Cruise by A Traveler from Texas Sailing date: Feb 2012 Pros: The Food Cons: Too many people for the size of the common areas. If you like constant crowds, you will love this ship. It seems that the huge size of the ship is in additional berths and not in the public areas. Good for Carnival but not so good for Carnival's customers. Your time dining was a negative for us but a reserved early dining table was not available even though we were not late in making our tour reservations. Ship Details: Ship Quality Too big. Too many people. Always crowded. Dining/Food I would have much preferred a reserved table to a Your Time table. You end up lining up even earlier to try and get a good table. The food was excellent. Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities The shows were great but fewer than most ships. Children's Programs 400 kids on the ship but you seldom saw them. Programs must be good. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 30 - 49 Cruise Experience: 7+ cruises Traveler Type: Couple Stateroom Type: Balcony A mediocre cruise! by A Traveler from Colorado Sailing date: Feb 2012 Pros: Being on vacation - Cons: the dining experience and hospitality experience The ship was okay. I was not impressed with the Red Frog Pub - would rather have seen a nice martini bar with better menu. Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food I was disappointed in the dining experience on this ship compared to previous cruises I've taken. Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality The housekeeping staff never introduced themselves to us and the dining staff made us feel rushed. Both experiences in those departments were impersonal. 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 30 - 49 Cruise Experience: 4 - 6 cruises Traveler Type: Couple Stateroom Type: Oceanview Less than by Donna H from Dallas, Texas Sailing date: Jan 2012 Pros: Disembarking Cons: Food, staff, long lines, embarking process Carnival needs to take lessons from Norwegian Cruise Lines. This was a sub-standard cruise. Even though the ship was new, the food was marginal at best, the staff was not friendly, there were long lines every where, slow service, and even though we chose "dine at your time" we had to wait up to an hour to get into the dining room more than one time and ususally at least 30 minutes. Ship Details: Ship Quality Ship layout is good and easy to get around, Dining/Food Food was not good at all. On NCL they knew my food allergies and made sure I never ordered anything that I was allergic to. On Carnival, I tried to let the Matre d know but he said I would have to ask my waiter every meal. When I did ask, the waiter did not know. Stateroom Quality Stateroom was nice, staff-Oscar and Newman were awesome!! Ship Staff Quality The staff other than the cabin stewards were not helpful at all and not friendly. There was not "above and beyond service." Entertainment & Activities Entertainment was OK but not enough room for all guest to attend, The rooms were small so only a few could go and this is not good on a ship that has 3500 guest. The lines were long and several times after standing in line for over 45 minutes, you still could not get in. Children's Programs There were children in the "Serenity-Adult only area" 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 18 - 29 Cruise Experience: 4 - 6 cruises Traveler Type: Couple Stateroom Type: Balcony Great trip! by SARAH N. from United States Sailing date: Jan 2012 Pros: The ship was beautiful & the staff was very friendly & helpful. Cons: Problems w/ the tenders in Grand Cayman & almost missed our flight home b/c Port of Galveston was closed due to fog & we didn't disembark until 2 pm. We really enjoyed the ship. It had a lot of fun activities & some neat features we haven't seen on other ships, such as the Red Frog Pub & the ropes course. Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 30 - 49 Cruise Experience: 4 - 6 cruises Traveler Type: Group Stateroom Type: Oceanview What A Disaster by Jason C from Brownwood, TX Sailing date: Nov 2011 Pros: The service in the dining room Cons: The fact that Carnival knew they had a mechanical problem that required skipping the port call to Costa Maya and going to Progresso for two days and not informing guests prior to the ship debarking from Galveston. I have sailed on Carnival six times and this by far was the worst one I have been on. Before sailing from Galveston, TX Carnival knew of an issue with one of the water jets under the ship that had attempted to be repaired in the Bahamas for two days and in Galveston, TX for two days as well. After debarking, they notified the passengers that the port call to Costa Maya had been cancelled and that the ship would be docked in Progresso, MX for two days while they attempted to repair the issue again. In a vain attempt to make up for this Carnival credited all guests $25 to their sign and sail account which was pathetic at best. Also the ship due to the issue was extremely rough and was not at all relaxing in any way. There were so many passenger on board that the line at the mongolian grill took 45 minutes to go through due to not having enough crew to cook the food. It also seemed that when the crew got tired of serving passengers that they closed the buffet lines and told people standing in line the buffet was closed. This happened at various times each day and was very aggrivating. Also, the pizza station never had pizza ready and the deli had one crew member that was too busy talking to the other crew member assisting him to take your order. Also Carnival stopped most of the special events that we have become acustom to over the years and there wern't any special parties or events that you would think they would have being an inagural cruise. Also the crew was not trained prior to sailing and they were being trained during the whole cruise. Dining at night was slow some evenings and fast others due to this. In the rooms they have the emergency pull alarms like in hospitals in case of an emergency. The alarms were malfunctioning throughout the whole cruise and when I told the emergency operator what was going on they would not assist me in any way to fix the issue. The only thing they said was tell your cabin steward and then would hang up. Also I used the internet cafe' and chose to do pay as you go at $.75 per minute. I found out that even after logging out and verifying that I logged out it after being on for no more than 10 - 15 minutes, I was charged over $40 the first time and over $130 the second time. They did fix the issue but I will never use the internet cafe' on board ship ever again due to this. I'll tell you one thing, I don't know if I will book with Carnival in the future after this experience, STAY AWAY FROM THE MAGIC! Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities 10 out of 13 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 65+ Cruise Experience: 7+ cruises Traveler Type: Group Stateroom Type: Balcony a good cruise by danielle b from houston tx Sailing date: Nov 2011 Pros: the pool area Cons: the pillows. to full. we my husband & i cruise every year it is very relaxing . the only thing was that we self debark & this time we were ask to debark at 7 am we realy had to rush & we felt like we were cheated out of a day of vacation ,. Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food Stateroom Quality we had a balcony directly in front of it! no privacy! Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities Read this user's port of call reviews: Cozumel, Mexico Collapse List of Ports Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico 3 out of 7 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful?
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