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About Your Ship: Carnival Ecstasy

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Departs Port Canaveral aboard Carnival Cruise Lines – Carnival Ecstasy

Sailing Date(s): Jun 2013, Jul 2013, Aug 2013, Sep 2013, Oct 2013, Nov 2013


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	Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 65+ Cruise Experience: 2 - 3 cruises Traveler Type: Couple Stateroom Type: Oceanview A Wonderful Cruise by Bill H. from Dallas, TX Sailing date: Dec 2008 Pros: We loved everything: the food, the accomodations, and all the staff. Everyone was nice and polite. We especially liked the fact that the ship was very clean. Also, the food was delicious and the menu was different every night. All the staff was gracious and polite. We were very pleased and hope to return again next year with our family for our 50th wedding anniversary. Ship Details: Ship Quality Everything was very clean, and the workers were always cleaning and making sure eveything looked nice and clean at all times. Dining/Food We loved the variety of options available on the menu. Stateroom Quality Very comfortable. We loved the nice towels and the bedding. We felt so cozy. Ship Staff Quality Everyone was friendly and ready to assist in any way they could. Entertainment & Activities We loved the shows. They were very well choreographed and the costumes were outstanding. 21 out of 29 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 30 - 49 Cruise Experience: First cruise Traveler Type: Couple The "Fun Ship" Ecstacy what more can I s by Joe from Plano, Texas, USA Sailing date: Jul 2007 Pros: Overall, the crew was best feature. Fantastic time onboard ship, and during land based excursions. Everything was perfect! No complaints; completely satisfied; would recommend and do again. Ship Details: Dining/Food Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities Children's Programs As a family we had the opportunity to spend time together and apart doing an aboundence of fun activities. Read this user's port of call reviews: Cozumel, Mexico; Progreso (Merida), Mexico Collapse List of Ports Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico Just as I imagined the beach was beautiful, snorkeling was perfect for entry-to-intermediate level experience. Our guide/host was excellent, humor and knowledge made this a great day. Overall the experience at Punta Sur was wonderfull. Don't Miss: The salt water crocodiles. Progreso (Merida), Mexico A whole in the ground, "Cenote" this was a real treat and opened our eyes to a new way to see a cave and/or to snorkel. Excellent! This was a fantastic and enjoyable excusion. Don't Miss: Do not miss sharing time with the local Myan people. On the excursion my family road in carts pulled by a horse, driven by a local Myan. This really level set the adventure to the Cenote on the land o 15 out of 18 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 65+ Cruise Experience: 4 - 6 cruises Traveler Type: Singles/friends Stateroom Type: Oceanview An Interesting Cruise by A Traveler from Dallas, TX Sailing date: Sep 2009 Pros: The Entertainment Director - Steve Cassell Cons: Lido (upper deck) food service. Cold (hot) food...unfriendly staff this deck only. There were three of us and we had a marvelous time. Overall the ship was pretty nice. After one day of the Lido food deck, we never ate there again and visited the two rstaurants and enjoyed them very much. The food was excellent. The debarkation was the simpliest and easist we have ever had. Praises for that setup. Our 'wait' staff and 'room' staff were PERFECT. We never had to ask for anything...they had it before we thought we needed it. The Ecstasy was an older ship, but the entertainment was fun, the casino staff most helpful and the space aboard was great. Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food Would have been nice to have a bit more variety in choices of restaurants. Ambiance in the existing two were fine. Stateroom Quality SUPER!!! Ship Staff Quality The best would have applied except for the Lido deck staff. Entertainment & Activities Hooray for the best Director EVER!! 14 out of 17 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 18 - 29 Cruise Experience: 2 - 3 cruises Traveler Type: Singles/friends Stateroom Type: Oceanview Amazing cruise! by Madeline K from Austin, TX Sailing date: May 2009 Pros: The staff members were extremely friendly and there were many activities to do onboard every day. The itenarary was great. Cons: The only problem was that it was difficult to get the shore excursions we wanted because they filled up very quickly. The cruise was great. It was my 3rd cruise (2nd on Carnival) and was the best yet. The waitstaff in the dining room were amazing. Our 2 waiters became friends and did magic tricks at our table, as well a dancing and singing with the other staff members. The food was great and there was always plenty of food and a wide variety available. There were plenty of chairs on deck to sit/lay on. The shows (dance revues, comedy shows) were also very entertaining. The casino staff members were very friendly and very good at their jobs. The photographers were also great-they offered many different backgrounds and poses everyday. Overall this was awesome and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to go on a cruise. Ship Details: Ship Quality Rooms were small, but that was expected. The ship was very clean and had an attractive layout. Dining/Food Food was amazing-including the huge variety of desserts. Stateroom Quality Staterooms were very basic (we were in an oceanview) but had everything we needed. Ship Staff Quality All staff members (waiters, housekeeping, entertainers...) were awesome. Entertainment & Activities Wide variety of activities and all were fun. 14 out of 17 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 50 - 65 Traveler Type: Family w/young children Stateroom Type: Oceanview Good Cruise; Staff was great, food okay by Chuck M from austin,tx Sailing date: Nov 2008 Pros: Great Staff Cons: Food I thought the cruise was okay. Last time we go in November! Water was too cold to swim and waves were pretty high making the ship rock quite a bit. Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities Children's Programs Read this user's port of call reviews: Cozumel, Mexico; Progreso (Merida), Mexico Collapse List of Ports Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico Water was too cold and waves too high to do anything in the water Tree Amigo restuarant was good food Progreso (Merida), Mexico Went to Corona Beach with a bunch of drunks. Water and beach ugly and cold 11 out of 13 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/older children Stateroom Type: Inside Family Cruise by Patricia S from Houston, TX Sailing date: Aug 2009 Pros: Kids enjoyed it Cons: Food was just so so Carnival is in my opinion a low rate cruise line, if you want to have a good time on a low budget this is the cruise line to go on!....and be prepared to be surrounded by a lot of kids running wild!! Ship Details: Ship Quality Not the best looking ship, kind of run down and the pools are too small!!! Dining/Food The seating retaurant food is pretty good, but the open buffets are mediocre at best.. Stateroom Quality If you are traveling at a family of more than 2 be prepared to sleep in very small, cramp room accomidations Ship Staff Quality The only truely friendly people are the room stewart other than that it's hit or miss as far as good friendly service goes... Entertainment & Activities Children's Programs Read this user's port of call reviews: Cozumel, Mexico; Progreso (Merida), Mexico Collapse List of Ports Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico Progreso (Merida), Mexico 10 out of 11 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 30 - 49 Cruise Experience: First cruise Traveler Type: Couple Ship Review by Harper from Texas Sailing date: Apr 2007 Ship Details: Entertainment & Activities Read this user's port of call reviews: Cozumel, Mexico Collapse List of Ports Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico 14 out of 20 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: Inside An Ok cruise by Tomas G. from Manchaca, Texas Sailing date: Feb 2009 Pros: lots of activitites Cons: Food quality has decreased alot Activities were good and varaible, such as dancing, shows, casino tournaments, etc. But, the food at the main dining was about 2stars, not 4-5 stars as before. Perhaps, I had not attended the short cruises in a while. The buffet, available instead of the main dining, was lacking. Their fuit juice is concentrate and very tart. Maybe, all other ships with a short itinerary have the same shortcomings, but the Carnival Ecstacy is the only one I can review. Ship Details: Ship Quality cabins are somewhat smaller than the Conquewt, if you want to compare. Dining/Food see comments above Stateroom Quality small, but clean Ship Staff Quality no complaints about the staff Entertainment & Activities Children's Programs 12 year old daughter had no problem getting into the 12-14 year old group and loved the activities. Read this user's port of call reviews: Cozumel, Mexico Collapse List of Ports Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico Don't Miss: snorkling, if you like that kind of stuff 7 out of 8 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 30 - 49 Cruise Experience: 2 - 3 cruises Traveler Type: Couple A great first cruise for my husband! by Denise from Connecticut Sailing date: Jul 2007 Pros: The atrium was gorgeous! I had been on a cruise one other time in 1998 but my husband has never been cruising which is why we took this short 5 day cruise. I wasn't that impressed with the port of Progreso, but Cozumel was beautiful. The staff was all very nice and my husband really enjoyed our time on the ship. If we cruised again, we'd like to take a cruise that has "Freestyle" cruising and not set dinner times because there were some nights that we weren't ready to eat at our designated time but we had no other choice. Other than that, we had a very nice time. This is a great cruise for FIRST TIME cruisers! Ship Details: Dining/Food I would like to see Carnival have "freestyle" cruising so you don't have to eat at certain times. Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality The dining staff was excellent, as was the waitstaff throughout the ship. Entertainment & Activities Read this user's port of call reviews: Cozumel, Mexico; Progreso (Merida), Mexico Collapse List of Ports Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico Cozumel is GORGEOUS! We loved Cozumel. Everything from the shopping to the beach to the warm crystal clear water that we swam in. The shopping was terrific and right at the end of the pier so it was very convenient. We loved it! In fact we talked about just going to Cozumel for a week's vacation! Don't Miss: Go to the BEACH! Book one of the deluxe beach tours and you get to spend the day on the beach, swim in the ocean, go on little paddle boats, eat all you can eat and drink all you can drink! It was gre Progreso (Merida), Mexico I would not return to Progreso! The best thing about this port is the 4.5 mile pier and the ride to the island on that pier. Getting off the bus at the island it was very congested, dirty, and not very tropical. We took a city tour of Merida and it was a long bus ride (although the bus was air conditioned and our guide was very nice) but Merida was unimpressive and the locals were very pushy. We couldn't walk down any street without being approached and asked to come into their run down stores. I was very disappointed with the shopping. The reason we took this tour was because we heard there was good city shopping but there was not. We will never return to this port! 7 out of 8 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? Overall Rating: About the Reviewer: Age: 18 - 29 Cruise Experience: First cruise Traveler Type: Family w/young children Stateroom Type: Inside Not Any time soon by Shelley L from Houston, TX Sailing date: Feb 2009 Pros: food, service Cons: VERY DATED, VERY DATED, Not clean My overall impression was not good. Most of the time we were very bored. The ship is gross and dirty and beyond dated. The carpets were gross and very dirty. The ship is small. There were mostly very old people. I did not like sitting with strangers at dinner or being told what time we could eat dinner. Ship Details: Ship Quality Dining/Food Stateroom Quality Ship Staff Quality Entertainment & Activities Children's Programs Read this user's port of call reviews: Cozumel, Mexico; Progreso (Merida), Mexico Collapse List of Ports Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico I really enjoyed Cozumel Progreso (Merida), Mexico not much in progreso 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful?
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