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Carnival Ecstasy Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas
5 Night Bahamas (Charleston Roundtrip)
Sail date: March 20, 2018
Ship: Carnival Ecstasy
Cabin type: Oceanview
Cabin number: M182
Traveled as: Family (young children)
Reviewed: 6 years ago
Review summary
This was our first cruise and we really enjoyed ourselves! It was my fiancé and I and our 4 year old daughter. Getting on and off the ship was easy and had no complaints. Once on the ship we explored and loved everything it was very exciting! I was a little skeptical at first to let our 4 year old go to the camp because the thought of leaving a 4 year old with strangers on a ship was scary but we wanted to play bingo and didn't think that kids were allowed (they were!) so we took her to camp and as soon as we walked in I felt extremely comfortable they have it closed so the kids can't just walk in and out (its locked three different ways) and there were at least 3-4 people there to watch and play with the kids at all times. Our daughter absolutely loved it and told us she wasn't ready to leave yet when we went to pick her up! The food was good, drinks were amazing! There was always something fun to do. The only negative thing I have to say about the entire ship is the smoking on board. We had to walk through the casino area quite a bit to get to parts of the ship and they are allowed to smoke at the bar down there and it was terrible having to walk through the smoke. They even set up a Guess Who game right next to the bar we wanted to play but we had to leave due to the smoke. The lounge chairs and pool sections were always clean and put together after each use of the loungers. The workers on the ship were always soooooo friendly and happy and amazing a lot of them even know our daughters name and everything we would see them they would say hi and give hi fives it was great! Our steward was awesome and knew our names every time we seen him and always had a different towel animal in our room each day. I can't say enough great things! We stopped at Princess Cay and Nassau and both places were amazing and again super easy getting off and on the ship. We will definitely be cruising with Carnival again. I think we will try a bigger ship only because I felt a lot of the movement and experience motion sickness a few times (we also left during a storm). All in all the ship was great, the workers were amazing and we had an amazing first cruise! Thank you Carnival!Embarkation
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Princess Cays (Cruise Line Private Island)