Beautiful ship but a few hickies
Carnival Breeze Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western
7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)
Sail date: May 14, 2017
Ship: Carnival Breeze
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 9346
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
The Breeze is a beautiful ship! But, our first morning as we were walking around the track, we happened upon the basketball court where a young man (21-24) was on the ground lying into the enclosure net grasping his right leg in obvious pain. Apparently it was a heated game and he had just gotten hurt as his teammates were just getting to him. We walked around the track again and once again stopped and his teammates were screaming for medical assistance and a Carnival staff member was just now coming onto the court. We walked around again twice, before a staff member in a red shirt with a backpack comes sauntering up as this poor man is writhing in severe pain. As an ex-EMT I stood watching expecting the medical guy to do something all the while the poor mans teammates are the ones holding him up and have his leg propped on one of their backpacks. By this time, there are several staff members present but not assisting the victim, all talking on radios or phones while the man is sweating and writhing in pain. We continue to stand observing as are four other people, one who is videotaping the scene and 3 that are in college for physical trainers. We begin telling the one medical person to splint/stabilize that leg and he tells us he does not have a splint! The man videoing asks to video my watch and states at this point it has been 35 minutes and no one from Carnival has touched this man! It is decided that the victim needs to be taken off the court and it is decided that his teammates must carry him off basket style! They slowly pick him up, trying to hold his leg still with no assistance from Carnival staff and the victim is in severe pain and finally tells them to stop so that he can vomit!!!! There were several Carnival staff just standing around and the teammates are told to carry the victim down a flight of stairs to a waiting wheelchair!!!! This is totally absurd and we bystanders begin getting very vocal and I'm screaming that there must be an elevator on that floor since it is a handicapped accessible ship and supplies and equipment must be moved to that deck....and I'm ignored. Still no doctor........ so the teammates manage to carry this poor man who is writhing in obvious pain down the very narrow and steep stairs and manage to place him in the waiting chair, where the staff still does not assist him and he must ask his teammates to place his leg on the foot pedal! As an ex-EMT I was flabbergasted at the lack of concern and emergency medical treatment. I did follow up on his condition the next morning and was told that his leg was broke around the knee area and that it was bad and all that was done was stabilized and told to get an MRI when back home! This was on day one of a 7 day cruise!!! Totally unacceptable.
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Ship tip
It is questionable as to if we will sail Carnival again after 6 trips with them.
Ports of call
Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras
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