Great food & great service!

Carnival Breeze Cruise Review

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Reviews: 9
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Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5
Carnival Breeze

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 27, 2019

Ship: Carnival Breeze

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 12036

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Another great cruise with Carnival! MarQ great CD. Great food & service. Can’t wait until the next cruise!

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Easy! Pulled into Park and cruise before 9am, they took us on over, dropped off bags and waited until they began letting us in at 10am, we had FTTF, waited in our seating area until we were ready to board, on ship by 11am. Room was ready!

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Yummy! Steakhouse 1st night (worst meal of the cruise) our NY strips came out well done, they gladly refired us 2 more...that came out very med well. Oh well, the MDR was excellent! Had anytime dining, ate here 5/7 nights and seaday brunches and a few breakfasts. Especially loved lobster tails, crab cakes, stuffed mushrooms, beef carpaccio, prime rib, grand marnier soufflé, just to name a few! Chef’s Table was delicious! Guys burgers, Blue Iguana (best fish tacos ever), Pirate Pizza, room service, and sea day tea-all good! (We ate a lot! Lol)

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Watched 88 Keys, Love & Marriage Show (always funny), Lip Sync Battle, 2 comedy shows, hubby played lotsa ping pong, 80s rock & glow party, Motown trivia & 80s trivia in the atrium with the cruise director were awesome! MarQ was a great CD! Oh yeah and the spa, it was never busy, so used it a few times. The pools: yuck yuck! They actually closed the beach pool, it was green and cloudy, never got in the pools. Daughter loved water slides.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
88 Keys -good Flick- my daughters fave, she has seen it 3 times Comedy shows- always great Definitely go to 80s rock and glow party and 80s music trivia & Motown music trivia. Also dress up! People go all out for 80s party! Think leg warmers, glow sticks, scrunchies!

Children's Programs

5 out of 5
Daughter loved Circle C. Plenty of activities she always wanted to go.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Wonderful service! Everyone on the ship was kind and happy to get anything we needed! Or wanted! Eka was amazing room steward on Deck 12!

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
I think the Breeze is ready for some sprucing up. Our room smelled like mold, like always. I keep an air freshener in our cabin, but it was strong over that too. Chairs and carpet are worn down. BUT everyone is cleaning all the time- the ship isn’t dirty at all! Just looking tired. Layout easy, you could say it’s a Breeze (ya I did). 🤣

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Spa cabin, balcony. Had a cabinet door broken, and 1 day we were sweating! They came and looked at it, said it was fine, but it was cool everyday after. Steward kept it spotless!

Ship tip

Always use deck 4 to walk through! Never crowded, especially if smoke from casino bothers you, always easy to get from 1 end to the other! Download the HUB app. Free Laundrette on deck 10, 7, 2. Don’t wait til last sea day to do laundry.

Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

5 out of 5

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

4 out of 5
Clean pool, clean port, rented an umbrella $20, floats $10, locker $12 (get $6 back) plenty of chairs, clean bathrooms, kind of a hike up to hill side cabana, and the ‘ocean’ water under the ocean cabana is NOT clear, looked like lake water, pretty murky there, so if ur looking for a cabana go with pool side, those looked cool. Brought our own drinks in back pack coolers, but glad we got off the ship. Food and drink here looked expensive, we didn’t buy anything at this port to eat or drink. Hubby wants me to mention they removed the ping pong table from port.

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

2 out of 5
Rainy weather so didn’t go to beach. Walked around and decided on island tour $25/person. Went up to the banana daiquiri place, (strong btw). I’m sure the beaches and snorkeling are awesome here, we just didn’t get to go 😔 The island looks like it’s very slow to recover, several buildings missing roofs still. Expensive port too.

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5
Jacks Shack, awesome as always. Some seaweed in the water, but beautiful weather! They have an inflatable water course between the port and Jacks Shack, our daughter spent her day playing there, and we split a bucket of Turks Head beer, 6 for $24. Conch fritters and jerk chicken, probably the best food and beer I’ve ever put in my mouth. We dug with Topher.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Easy, FTTF. Walked out of theatre at 7:10am. Grabbed a porter in the terminal, he carried our bags, took us to their own customs line, brought us to our Park & Cruise shuttle, tipped him $15, rode to our car, was on interstate (after stopping at convenient store) at 7:57am.

Traveler Photos

Sail away party Closed pool on sea day, yucky Chefs Table Chefs  Table Still blocking  Governor's Mansion No umbrellas up yet
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3 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     6 months ago

Thanks for sharing

cruisereckoning    4 years ago

Thanks for the review.

bobduck1993    5 years ago

I know the feeling ,cruising is so enjoyable!

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