Smelly Boat

Carnival Ecstasy Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

stever01

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 19

Overall rating:

3.6 out of 5

5 Night Bahamas (Jacksonville Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 08, 2019

Ship: Carnival Ecstasy

Cabin type: Oceanview

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Fun to get away. The ship is old and smelled terrible. Even after complaining about the bad smell, nothing was ever done about it. Customer Service said that they were aware of the bad raw sewage, rotten egg smell, but the smell stayed the same for 5 days. The cruise director "Cam" was great. He was very energetic and got people involved and had fun. Miniature golf was fun but they need to buy more putters, seemed like there were only 5-6 available towards the end of the cruise.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Kitchen did not know how to cook a Prime rib Medium Rare. Waitstaff brought 4 plates and all were exactly the same med/med-well

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Children's Programs

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

2 out of 5

outside on pool deck always had a bad smell

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5

The entire 5th level, main deck smelled awful. similar to bad toilet water and raw sewage. everyone who walked to the elevators commented on how bad the smell was. The air condition vent on ceiling in the room put out a very bad smell. I did complain about this, they did give me some $$ credit, but also said that they are aware of the problem, but nothing was done about it during our 5 night cruise. (The public bathrooms were the best smelling area of the ship (air freshners))

Ports of call

Jacksonville, Florida

4 out of 5

Princess Cays (Cruise Line Private Island)

5 out of 5

Princess Cays was the Best. we saw a stingray, Barracuda, fish and lobsters just swimming off the beach with our goggles.

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Nassau, Bahamas

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

3 out of 5

very long line for carrying off your own luggage, but that's to be expected. I would suggest taking your time, checking your bags the night before and disembarking last off ship

3 Comments

TwixC 5 years ago

😣 that sounds horrible.

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sunshine220 5 years ago

Out of 5 ships it was our least favorite we didn't have seeage smell but smelled smokey in the hallways. The food quality anf selection wasnt great and i totally agree with you on the prime rib i ordered medium well my husband rare and both were inedible and barely even recognizable as prime rib the flat iron steak would hsve been better. We had a group of 14 and 4 were kids and it took over 2hrs each night for dinner a few in our party stooped going after the first couple nights. Iur head waitor was great but had a new hire helping and just seemed under staffed or overwhelmed each night.

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jerry1125 5 years ago

I was on that ship when it was new back in the 90’s..... Time to retire her.

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