Disappointed

Item: Carnival Conquest
Rating: 3.3
Author: sdorety

Carnival Conquest Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

sdorety

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 69

Overall rating:

3.3 out of 5

Verified Review

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 28, 2018

Ship: Carnival Conquest

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6442

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Understanding that things change beyond your control I feel Carnival could have made better decisions on behalf of their cruisers. This is our third cruise they have taken us to a port totally closed due to a holiday. That is poor planning to advertise a port you are paying for to arrive and nothing be open. I know this is an older ship but the mattresses should be changed if they have deep dips from being used. I know it was not just ours you could see the same thing I. Other rooms as you walked down the hallways and doors were open . 8am to 2pm on a tender port is too short. The tender takes a while to get you there and then the last one leaves 45 minutes prior to the ship leaving so you have lost another couple of hours on this short port

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Ship tip

Ship is ready for an update, mattress definitely all need upgrades!

Thumbs up

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

3 out of 5

Princess Cays (Cruise Line Private Island) Did not visit port

Tenders were in for maintenance so Carnival changed it to Half Moon Cay which was great but changed days and shortened the port time so by the time you took the tender and had the last tender leVing 45 minutes before the ship left you have very little time at this beautiful beach. Even though we were told on embarkation of this change (7 days ahead) the port workers were not informed we were coming until late the night before this a scramble to get everyone back into work who thought they had the day off and they did not have time to prepare the lunch that is normally served so that was not provided as normal

Thumbs Up 0

Grand Turk Island

3 out of 5

Beautiful beach but port time was shortened by ship

Thumbs Up 4

Willemstad, Curacao

4 out of 5

Oranjestad, Aruba

1 out of 5

This was the longest port time 10am to 11pm and it was a national holiday so everything was closed . Poor decision made by Carnival

Thumbs Up 4