Have to get off my chest

My favorite part of the cruise was the new Guys Grill and The Blue Iguana they were both awesome additions to the basic cruise menu I was used to. In all the cruise was good but the noticeable cuts Carnival made was a great disappointment this was I believe our 9th or 10 th cruise and by far the pampering of guest has decreased substantially . The biggest disappointment to us as a family who has been cruising since my children were very young was no past cruising social and not even our much expected pins that my children had come to collect over the years and evidently it's a sore subject with many guest because when we asked our room steward she was like " oh my yes the pins I have heard so many complaints about that and apologized on behalf of Carnival " my 18 year old had brought his hat that he had signed by the captain of every cruise with us and all the pins from every cruise and just was totally bummed out to find out this was no longer a tradition he could continue. The chocolate candy on the pillows that Carnival used to brag about also gone as well as not even table cloths on the tables for dinner the little extras that set Carnival aside from the rest to us were gone. Also my sons since they were small regardless of how much money we gave them to play games and buy things were always proud of the deck of cards that they could get themselves at the desk also gone we had to buy them a used deck from the casino to play cards very disappointing. We have a large group of people that always travel with us and I am the one who always sets up our cruises and a few of them gamble quite a bit that is where I find all of the pampering went they received wine at dinner cookies and chocolate covered strawberries if that's the future normal for Carnival then no I will not recommend Carnival. I am looking into booking our future cruise for our gang now and for the first time in over 15 years am looking into other cruise lines. Please don't misunderstand the staff was top notch as usual but the cut backs were noticeable like rooms only being serviced once and no longer turned down while we're at dinner OK rant over