Hey Nan... Glad you had a good day...
Tell SPEED we're proud of him!!!
So what did you really think of it???
Oh come on... you need to tell us so we don't have a crazy hallucination one night and book the darned thing!!! (Besides... I wanted to know on PV day just what it was like over there....)
(and did they ever fix that rust stain on the starboard side???) Carnival...not US!!!
No rust spot is still there. We do have a pic from the tender in Cabo I will post.
Ok...well to sum up the reasons I would not cruise again on Carnival....
Crew...Not very friendly or helpful. I know some on the DIS have made comments about the language barrier. But I have never experienced this much of a barrier. Other then in the main dinning area and our servers there, it was hard to get anything you ordered correct. They all seemed to either not understand me or had selective understanding. Not sure which. If you needed help with something, it seemed that no one could help and your were sent to another location and would still not get an answer. We did meet a few crew members who were very nice. One bartender who made the best Banana/Strawberry Daiquiri I've ever had. Our cabin steward disappeared half way through our trip, which was not a bad thing as he was not the greatest. But whoever filled in for him(we never met the replacement) was worse. We ordered the morning breakfast and had some splenda spilled on the table, and when he took the tray away while making up our room, he never wiped the table off. There seems to be no attention to detail. I also noticed that there is more crew members who were spending time in the guest area. Cast members out on deck 3 taking smoke breaks, eating in the buffet grill. I was also surprised to see that the Cruise Director was not an officer. This maybe the norm on other ships, but since all my previous experiences are on
DCL, and since I just
Brent, it seemed weird to me.
The Ship....I thought it had the most ugliest decor. I will post some pics soon. Again there did not seem to be the attention to detail that you find on DCL. Saw lots of unclean things. Such as up on deck 10 was a coffee cup sitting by a railing that looked like it had been there since the previous cruise if not longer. DCL's deck four equivalent on the Pride is deck 3, but there were no deck chairs, just an open deck. The Pride just does not seem to "flow" well. There seem to be lots of dead ends. Our cabin was fine, we were on deck one. But did hear lots of noise and creaks.
I can't really comment on the kids club, but my impression was that it was not good. It seemed that most kids did not go, as they were all over the ship. Running up and down halls etc. My DBIL did make the comment that it was more like a babysitting service and at some points they did charge for having your child there. I did take my niece to what we thought was a build a bear activity, when in fact all it was was them selling you the bear and the outfits you wanted. There really was not place set up for us to put the bear together. So we just sat on the floor and did it. Sammi did like her bear, but it was not what I expected. Also the area that I did see seemed small, similar to a daycare center. This is just my opinion of this.
The casino I could do with out. spent 10 min or less in there and lost 10 bucks on the slots.
Shows...Nothing like we know on DCL. The only shows we enjoyed were the comedians and the adult shows that they had.
Bingo...we did not play, but did watch a few as we waited for shows to start. They never even came close to this size jackpots that was on our trip. I think the biggest/final was for 5000.
Roomservice.... S U C K E D....and was only available for the first few days as the phone system on the ship went down. Which also caused me not to get my wakeup call for the morning of my dolphin swim. We were rushed, but made it with time to spare.
Weather...not that this is any reflection on Carnival...We did get lots of rain. It rained most of the afternoon in PV, in Mazatlan we hired a private van to do a city tour and take us shopping and were able to get back to the cruise terminal just before the sky's opened and continued to rain the rest of the day. I did get very luck in Cabo, no rain during my dolphin swim, but after we finished the dolphins we were going to do some shopping in town and did not make it very far before the sky's opened up again. it rained on and off the rest of the day.
Food....Not even close to the quality that you get on DCL. When we first boarded the herd you up to the lido deck, mermaids grill, poor quality of food and the whole set up was very chaotic. I think the only good things were the hamburgers, chicken tenders, and the peach soup they had one night at dinner. It was not all really bad, but just not what I expected. And their midnight buffet...that was laughable. It was more then just desserts and some of the things looked just plain gross. I'm not even sure what some of it was.
feel free to ask any questions. I'm happy to share.
Photos....no packages available. The photographers were not very friendly either. We only bought on pic and that was one where you dress up in old west costumes.
Drinks....I have never cruised DCL when they had drink cards, and I'm glad, because I did not like them. No beer mug special to either.
It's just a few months that disappeared recently. Strange.
Now that was funny.
