Carnival is nice, but too many at sea days
Carnival Breeze Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western
7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)
Sail date: February 19, 2017
Ship: Carnival Breeze
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 9219
Traveled as: Family (young children)
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
Our 7 days cruise was supposed to have 3 ports of call and 3 sea days. Unfortunately Grand Cayman was cancelled because they couldn't tender us in as the waves were too big. Obviously not Carnival's fault, but it gave us 4 at sea days and only 2 port days. We were pretty tired of the ship by the end and ready to get off. There's just not enough to do to keep you entertained on board. Even 3 days would have been too much. Next time we would sail from Florida to get more port days.
Food was okay; nothing too special, but not bad either. Fairly good choices of restaurants to eat lunch at. Staff was all great. Ship was clean and pretty well kept up. They had several comedians come on board and all were great.
Whatever you do, do NOT rent a car from Enterprise in Galveston, or for that matter plan on taking a taxi from the port at all. There are only a handful of taxis and they often take people all the way to Houston before coming back to the port. We waited 2 and a half hours for a taxi. The various shuttles were coming through all the time and people had no problems with those. Once we got to Enterprise to pick up our rental we waited another hour and a half for them to have a car ready for us. It wasted our whole day and was a sour end to our vacation.
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Choose your itinerary wisely and think about how many at seas days you want. The ship is nice. There are two pools that were pretty full of kids anytime the sun was out. The Jacuzzis are not that warm and despite 18 and over signs, all had kids in them, but they behaved well. Ropes course is neat.