Awesome trip overall! Watchout for unsupervised loud kids in the middle of the night!!!

Carnival Breeze Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

therobinsons99

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 33

Overall rating:

3.7 out of 5

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7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 13, 2017

Ship: Carnival Breeze

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 2388

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

All in all, it was an awesome cruise. We are pretty easy to please and quite simple. We had a blast in all ports - Cayman was the best (use EcoAdventure for snorkeling, stingray and starfish)these guys rock!!! As stated in my review -MUST READ- our only complaint, Carnival really needs to take steps to address poorly behaved children in the middle of the night especially when staff is witness to this behavior and complaints are made by passengers. Unfortunately with all the cruises we have taken, this trip/ship seem to have the worst behaved kids. Several other passengers on our floor had the same comments with really no resolve from the crew as they had lodged complaints. Not sure what their parents were doing but obvious they were no were around based on constant running up and down the hallways along with yelling at midnight and several times at 2/230 am. One one evening at 1:15 am, as I opened my door to ask these kids to keep it down, they ran screaming and laughing right past a staff member - did not seem to phase him. NICE One visit to the Library revealed a group of kids playing a game - they were not only very loud but used terrible/nasty language. I was mortified walking in there with my 8 year old granddaughter and listening to the horrible language at a yelling tone. Their parents should be proud!!! I would hope this is a 'one time' event - never really noticed or were bothered on other carnival boats. Shame parents don't feel the need to be parents on a vacation or have a clue of what their children are really behaving like. I know its the 'fun ship' but really, unruly kids all night long is NOT FUN.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Room stewards were awesome. Wait staff and hostess in the steak house were wonderful! Unfortunately my rating needs to be a 3 due to the lack of control with noisy kids up and down the hallway late at night and into the evening. Again this only represents the staff who did not address these issues while being witness to it.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Cabin itself was nice - plenty of storage and the cove balcony was cool! They only do 1 cleaning service a day now (hmmm, thats new and different). I am giving this a 3 star due to several evenings there were too many unsupervised children (12-15) wandering the hallways, yelling, screaming and generally being very disrespectful of time. Often at midnight and through 230 AM. Assuming it was the floor we were on and housed more of these type passengers....wont be staying on this floor again.

Ship tip

TIP: Stay on a higher floor on this particular ship.

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Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

3 out of 5

NO excursion, drove in, drove out.

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Montego Bay, Jamaica

3 out of 5

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George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5

We booked an excursion through EcoAdventures - stingray and starfish!!! A must do!!! This outfit is awesome!!!!!

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Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

7 Comments

Gwbigdog 2 years ago

oops

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maam777 7 years ago

I had a similar issue at the dining area. I am all about people having a good time, but the table next to us used the F word in every sentence and were very loud. It was so trashy. They were not able to move our group to another table. It was pretty bad, and I was disappointed that they didn't attempt to handle it. It is a tough position for them to be in though I am sure

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Cruiser93555 7 years ago

4 cruises and the Breeze was the only one we had this issue with. The last night was especially funny as all the adults were spent and looked like they have just given up.

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rdhedd2 7 years ago

That's one reason we booked in Sept! Not that I don't love kids but if parents can't control them, then they shouldn't take them on a cruise.

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batch123 7 years ago

^^^^ School is back in session everywhere then. You'll be fine.

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rdhedd2 7 years ago

That's one thing I can hardly tolerate is unruly children who have no idea what the word respect others means! We haven't experienced this on a ship but rather in plenty of hotels. Our cruise is in 18 days on this ship, I hope we don't have this issue!

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batch123 7 years ago

Personally we've never experienced what you had. At least not that bad. Clearly this is more of a parental issue. Carnival can only really step in if it's a safety or criminal issue. Some of these parents would be the first ones to sue the cruiselines, make false accusations, etc. The crew unfortunately has to balance with that fact. Having said that, I agree with your point. But they're hands are relatively tied unless it's a clear safety or criminal act witnessed.

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