"It seemed like the variety and size of the buffet space was smaller they typical Carnival ships as multiple stations were situated at various locations on the deck rather then one big large buffet area.The one big issue that I had with the cabin was the fact that the bedside ‘end table’ was nothing more than a tiny plastic shelf and there being no bedside power outlet...."Read More
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We went on this cruise with my family, 12 of us. It was a C- at best
1. The dining room looks like a low class dining hall. The service was fair the food was ok not great
2. Breakfast in the Dining room, need a reservation, can't just walk in. A reservation starts with a 10 minute wait. No one was in the dining room. No reason for a wait.
3. Ship was crowded, had to get to a show ...
This was to be our very first cruise-so at the tender age of 67, my wife and I booked an Excel aft corner suite on the Mardi Gras. We were on deck 15-one deck below the common lounging/pool areas at the rear of the ship. While the suite was magnificent, and the wrap around balcony with our own private hot tub was beautiful, being underneath that noise machine was, in retrospect, a mistake. We ...
I last sailed about 12 years ago on Carnival and loved it. I was shocked at how much Carnival has slipped. The cruise was totally boring - I will not sail with Carnival again.
There were weird cost-cutting actions. There was no aspartame (equal) or flavored coffee creamers. The coffee cups were small and the coffee not very good. No juice except in the morning. Water, ice tea and lemonade ...
Please if you are an international couple going on one of the newer ships I recommend you don’t. I leave a detail review on the BBB but I had nothing but racist interaction from the workers and plenty from the guests. For example me and my girl was dancing and some random lady pulled her off of me and said no. Like what is the actual heck? Or when you sit down at the casino and the only black guy ...
The ship is fabulous! Plenty of things to do! HOWEVER!!!!!!!!! The HUB app is the WORSE and FANTASTIC at the same time. Pros is you can see your photos and it alerts what time events are happening when it’s working! The HUB has a chat feature that was always disconnected so messages didn’t go through when needed. Everyone had to pay $5 for this horrible feature. I didn’t need messages to pop ...
My 17th cruise (all but 2 are with carnival). My wife's 20th (most with carnival).
My review from this cruise may be specific to the Mardi Gras...however I think Corporate Carnival policies are likely to be the baseline for my annoyances and I'm holding the Mardi Gras accountable for the following issues:
- We've always loved Carnival because the guest demographic is very well rounded (has ...
Although we usually cruise out of Baltimore because we live in Northern Virginia and it's a quick drive to the port - we wanted to try Carnival's big new ship, the Mardi Gras.
1. This is a huge ship with tons of bars and restaurants. You can try something new every day and still not hit everything. Although there were 6200 passengers on our cruise, for the most part crowd levels were not bad ...
2nd cruise on Carnival Mardi Gras. I moat often sail with Carnival as we love the laid back cruise style.
This time I went with my sister who was a 1st time cruiser so unlike when I'm with my husband she wanted to try everything.
Food great. Good choice. Chibang lovely. Italian so so. Main dining nice. Great pizza, sandwiches and burgers. Lido great choice at breakfast and lunch but ...
I sailed On Carnival Mardi Gras four months prior to the cruise that this comment is based upon. As outstanding as the June cruise was my October cruise was the opposite. I have sailed with Carnival for more than twenty years, so I am well aware of both the good and not so good sides of choosing to sail on Carnival cruise ships. We normally enjoy Carnival, however this cruise we the second worst ...
My husband and I cruised aboard Mardi Gras in November 2022, and liked the ship so much and had "unfinished business" aboard, so we booked a second cruise on her for Sept 2023. I never understood when people would say a ship was so big that you couldn't fit everything in/see all the attractions/try all the food and drinks in a one week sailing, but after last November I understood that! So, we ...