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Cruise Lines: Carnival Cruise Lines / Princess Cruises / Royal Caribbean
Ships: Caribbean Princess / Carnival Breeze / Navigator of the Seas
Destinations: Alaska - Inside Passage / Caribbean / Hawaii
Ports: Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy / Coxen Hole, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras / Izmir, Turkey
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Gladesgirl's Past Cruises
March 2018 - 7 Night Western Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip) Cruise on Carnival Magic
February 2017 - 10 Night Panama Canal Partial Transit (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip) Cruise on Coral Princess
December 2015 - 7 Night Southern Caribbean (San Juan Roundtrip) Cruise on Carnival Liberty
Our family had a great time on the Liberty for our New Years cruise. We have done one other Carnival New Years Cruise on the Legend out of Tampa. And unfortunately there is no comparison. The cruise director, Felipe, on the Liberty, was one of the best we've had. And we done quite a few Carnival cruises. There was no one big thing wrong, just a bunch of little things. Carnival has changed the dining service in the main dining rooms to something called "American Table". I think it takes away from the "experience". We are not formal people, but we want a little "something something" extra in the dining room if we choose to use it. Its now become just a little step up from the Lido deck buffet. In fact, almost everything you get in the dining room is available on the buffet. The quality of the food is also lacking a little. And again I say we are not "fancy" people, just want what we have had in the past (since 1998) and its not there. There's no more chocolate on the bed at turn down service. There wasn't a VIP get together. There is no cruise desk that I could find nor any incentives for booking your next cruise. Like I said, just some subtle changes, but really not for the better. We are also cruisers on Princess line and think we will stick more with that. And by the way Carnival, since you and Princess are one in the same company, why can't the reward program be combined?
February 2015 - 7 Night Bahamas (New Orleans Roundtrip) Cruise on Serenade of the Seas
May 2014 - 5 Night Western Caribbean Getaway (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip) Cruise on Caribbean Princess
December 2013 - 6 Night Caribbean (Miami roundtrip) Cruise on Carnival Breeze
December 2012 - 7 Night Exotic Western Caribbean (Tampa roundtrip) Cruise on Carnival Legend
June 2012 - 5 Night Canada/New England (Boston roundtrip) Cruise on Carnival Glory
November 2011 - 4 Night Bahamas (Port Canaveral roundtrip) Cruise on Disney Dream
February 2011 - 5 Night Western Caribbean (New Orleans roundtrip) Cruise on Carnival Triumph
August 2010 - 10 Night Alaska Inside Passage (San Francisco roundtrip) Cruise on Sea Princess
May 2010 - 7 Night Eastern Mediterranean (Rome roundtrip) Cruise on Navigator of the Seas
Gladesgirl's Tips
Coral Princess - If you like to see the shows, prepare to get a seat about an hour early. Their theater is small and ugly, maybe seats 700 plus or minus! So if there are 2000 passengers aboard and 2 shows, not everyone will be able to see the show. And if you like slot machines, you will be sorely disappointed!
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checked in for the roll call for Mar 30, 2019 cruise on Star Princess!
added Mar 30, 2019 cruise on Star Princess to their profile.
checked in for the roll call for Mar 3, 2018 cruise on Carnival Magic!
received a helpful vote on their Coral Princess cruise review - Panama Canal Transit, Worth the Trip!
received a helpful vote on their Carnival Liberty cruise review - Fun Time!!
received a helpful vote on their Coral Princess cruise review - Panama Canal Transit, Worth the Trip!
received a helpful vote on their Carnival Liberty cruise review - Fun Time!!
received a helpful vote on their Coral Princess cruise review - Panama Canal Transit, Worth the Trip!
received a helpful vote on their Coral Princess cruise review - Panama Canal Transit, Worth the Trip!
added Feb 6, 2017 cruise on Coral Princess to their profile.
Embarkation was fantastic, didn't have to wait hardly at all.
Buffet was very crowded, thankfully a Princess employee told us to find a seat before getting our food. We had second seating in the Provence dining room and the service was good. Portions are getting smaller and smaller though and we are a little shy about asking for a second entree. We had a reservation on my husbands birthday for the Bayou Cafe and it was the best meal we had. We both had Filet Mignon with a lobster tail and we were both shocked at the quality and size of both. Their dessert was out of sight if you love peanut butter and chocolate. We purchased a bottled water package before cruising and a coffee card. We then enjoyed bottled water and lattes the entire time, very nice!
I like to play slots at the casino when we cruise and this being my 14th cruise I have seen some casinos. This was, without a doubt, the smallest, worst casino for slots I have seen. Old machines, half the amount I expected and one section of the casino was so hot that no one would sit long...therefore cutting the amount of machines even further. I figured I'd save myself some money and normally would have been there everynight, but only went there 3 nights.
The cruise director was so so. You would see him in the Atrium and doing his morning show (which he taped the night before), but he hardly ever made any announcements, didn't say anything to us via announcement on our disembarkation. All in all very lackluster.
As far as the itinerary is concerned, the transit through the canal was the Best! Worth the whole trip. Started our day very early (about 6AM) on Deck 11 (the same deck our cabin was on) as we had access to the front of the ship from there. We stayed there the whole time through the canal to the lake. The other ports of call were fine, albeit a little short on time in Aruba, and Ocho Rios was lousy, but we had never been to Cartagena and Costa Rica and now we can say we have, however, the purpose of our trip was to see the transit and it was definitely enjoyable.