WORST cruise ever!

Carnival Celebration Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 11

Overall rating:

1.8 out of 5
Carnival Celebration

7 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 01, 2023

Ship: Carnival Celebration

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8276

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 6 months ago

Review summary

First of all, I’m not one to write reviews but this cruise was so bad I had to!! So we have been on a lot of cruises but the carnival celebration was hands down the worst and most disappointing, I didn’t have high hopes for carnival to begin with but decided to give it a try. for starters the food was atrocious and most of the time inedible especially from the main dining room which looked like high school cafeteria food!! And seriously since when do they not even put on a table cloth on the table, like cmon where have standards gone!! to get something halfway decent we had to eat at the pay restaurants and even the pay restaurants were nothing impressive especially when on Princess you can get way better quality food that is actually very good and not have to pay extra!! 99.9% of the staff was terrible, had no personality, and tbh sometimes rude!! Especially at guys burgers, if I were Guy Fieri I would remove my name from that place because aside from the burgers being bland and tasteless, it was dirty, the staff was rushing people and just plain rude!!! Aside from the food and service being atrocious housekeeping standards have dropped tremendously also, on any princess cruise or any other cruise line, our room would always be cleaned and then turned down at night, on the celebration it was only cleaned once a day that we even had to ask for extra towels every night, and I’m sorry the covid excuse is getting old now!! For a ship that just celebrated its one year anniversary and a ship that is suppose to be the “flag ship” for carnival, It was not impressive! For starters it was not very well maintained, it was dirty and kind of pathetic, even the outdoor steps were falling apart and in some cases blocked off!! Aside from being dirty the ships decor was bland and unappealing!! Princess ships the minute you walk on you are blown away by how beautiful and elegant the ships are, the celebration had 0 class whatsoever and looked extremely cheaply made from the horrible small celebration central (atrium) to the pathetic excuse of a lido deck which by the way was also filthy!! For the money we spent on this cruise between 2 family’s we could have went many other places. NEVER cruising with carnival again I honestly can not say one good thing about this cruise except that the cruise director, lee was cool and honestly I hope he moves to another cruise line because he is way to good to be on pathetic cruise line like carnival, but other then that this was the first cruise I couldn’t wait to get off of!!

Embarkation

3 out of 5
not bad but better on other cruise lines.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
DISGUSTING!! food was inedible, service was horrible, and buffet was filthy!

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
even just trying to relax on the lido deck was a disaster because of how dirty it was!

Entertainment

1 out of 5
Terrible they literally did the same circus show like every night in the small joke of an atrium, only performer I enjoyed was the comedian and that's only because even he was ripping apart carnival for how bad everything is!!

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
99.9% of staff was not very friendly and sometimes just plain rude!

Ship Quality

1 out of 5
for what is suppose to be the "flag ship" for carnival, the ship was dirty and not well maintained, aside from that the decor was not impressive at all, I usually cruise with princess and am always blown away by how classy and elegant the ships are, the celebration had 0 class at all and was very cheaply made!!

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5
cabin was way to small and I was expecting way more especially since I paid extra for a Havana balcony suite!

Ship tip

don't cruise with carnival save yourself the aggravation!

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

3 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

3 out of 5

Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico

4 out of 5

Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
a complete disaster!!

Traveler Photos

like cmon I wouldn't feed this to a dog!
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