It's like a smoke shop and a walmart had a baby and sent it off to sea....

Carnival Elation Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 41

Overall rating:

3.6 out of 5
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Carnival Elation

5 Night Bahamas (Jacksonville Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 23, 2018

Ship: Carnival Elation

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: V21

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

I have cruised 4 times in my life, 3 with Royal Caribbean, and this cruise with carnival. I can tell you that I will never sail on Carnival again. The amount of cigarette smoke was so disgusting, we couldn't even use our balcony on our suite which we paid for the privilege to use! Yes, their policy is no smoking in that area but people do.. and when we complained.. OH we will send someone. Whomever they sent must have been blind as a bat.... and it was only made worse when we got off the elevator on the lido deck to have breakfast and there they were smoking and drinking away at 8 am in the morning. My family could not escape the smoke unless we were in our room, which had a nice cat pee smell in the bathroom (which I account to the bathrooms/staterooms being new since the boat was refurbished a few months ago). Oh, Unless you like it Nuts to butts, Forget about the hottubs or the pools, even on the serenity deck. The Kids overtake ALL of that stuff and then where there is no kids, there's the drunk people. The serenity deck lets teenagers in there and well, no serenity at that point. now, move on to the drunk people and the kids. The drunk people were your typical drunk folk. Bumpin into everyone, leering at the half naked women in their bikini's on the boat, and again, their lack of regard for smoking areas... The kids though topped it. Running up and down the halls until 3 or 4 am every night. Again, calls to customer care or whatever the desk was called Yeilded nothing.. Now, Lets be honest. Put those 2 aside and the rest was not all that bad. The dining room food was great, the buffet.. well not so much unless you like cheap crap (the Caribbean food was good on the one day). The pizza place, don't bother. If you like it, you don't know what good pizza is.... DIgiorno is better... Guys burger joint was actually good. that was our lunch spot. The staff really was great.. Getting on and off for ports was awesome (GET THE FASTER TO THE FUN!!!!! BEYOND WORTH IT). The stingray encounter on balmoral was the absolute best.. The best memories on my trip were made there. All In all, if they had a better handle on the smoking, drunkards, and the kids, I might have sailed again but until they do not allow smoking RIGHT BY THE POOL, I'm never touching carnival again.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
I paid for a suite with VIP embarkation and Faster to the fun. That made it a plesant experience.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5
Main dining rooms are the ONLY way to go for real food. Guys burger joint was really good for quick food. The Buffets, Pizza, and delli were just not good at all. The pizza... well Id rather digiorno..

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
Pool were SO overcrowded we just decided not to even try. Imagine everyone at a wal-mart drunk and in a pool that is at best 15x30... No thanks.. Nothing else to do that didnt invole being smoked out at every turn.

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Children's Programs

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
It was recently refitted so the rooms (we had a suite) was nice. The rest of the boat, ehhh she's showing her age. They really need to get the naval jelly out and the touchup paint.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

Unless you like smoke and Noisy kids and people, Dont sail on carnival. It reminded me of a wal-mart at sea. Self-indulgent people with no care for anyone else or any care for themselves. Royal Carribean is MUCH better. you really see why they can charge an extra 100 bucks per person on thier boats.

Ports of call

Nassau, Bahamas

4 out of 5
The stingray excursion at balmoral is the absolute highlight of our trip. Nassau itself, well, nothing more than schiesters trying to put jewlrey on you and poorly made crafts that looked horrible.

Half Moon Cay, Bahamas (Private Island)

4 out of 5
Smoking smoking smoking.. Enough with the dammed smoking. Clamshell beach tents were great.. except they were near the smoking areas/pipes.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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16 Comments

halliem94    6 years ago

You seem like a miserable person! Especially with a “Not a Carnival Fan” username lol. Please go away and don’t bring your negativity here! We don’t want to hear it

cdesanto79    6 years ago

We are going on our 8th Carnival Cruise in September and everyone has been a great experience!

jparis8299    6 years ago

I love elation! Going on her for my third time in September, I have ZERO complaints! Yes pools are crowded, hello people have families who want to have fun too! Go on an adult only cruise if that’s what you want!

halfmoon    6 years ago

Elation has smoking sections which you could avoid and there is no smoking by the pool and as for the kids they paid just as much as you did for their cruise and have the right to swim as much as they wanted to maybe you should find a cruise for senoirs

Jenl37a    6 years ago

Any cruise ship is going to have way more kids in the summer when they are out of school. Same goes for around the holidays and spring break. You might might have better luck cruising in an off peak time, like October or early November. Cruises tend to be cheaper during the months when kids are in school too.

Dutch3901    6 years ago

97.3%. I looked it up. 😉

cbyron3    6 years ago

And correct me if I'm wrong but if you're wearing a bikini, aren't you about 97% naked? Just sayin..

cbyron3    6 years ago

I must be SUPER lucky...11 Carnival cruises and not one thing to really complain about. Maybe I need to concentrate to find SOMETHING to complain about next time.

doggieskitties    6 years ago

Maybe cruising is not for you, go try greyhound next time. There probably won't be many kids there.

Frogboo95    6 years ago

This is a Turd Troll... please ignore! Great Ship!

bmastin67    6 years ago

Yay!!!! Stay home so i have more room for myself !!

FunMommy    6 years ago

Oh wow Elation was my first ship. I never endured smoke the way you put it. Sorry you went through that. Try a newer Carnvial ship. *Fun travels*☺

Dutch3901    6 years ago

Let’s see... you have a ID of “NotACarnivalFan” and you haven’t registered your other 3 cruises that you mentioned. Seems like you came to this group just to badmouth Carnival. “If I like the pizza then I don’t know what good pizza is?” I eat pizza in Europe and in Asia. It’s a lot like what’s on board. What a limited, silly, statement. I will say that I agree with your decision to never sail on Carnival again. I will continue to sail Carnival, so your plan will benefit both of us...

dhouc    6 years ago

Great, please sail somewhere else You are too picky

ranel11    6 years ago

That sux my teens and i sail Saturday we dont smoke

wl1962    6 years ago

you sound like a ball. i have been on many different cruiselines and not one has tolerated smoking on balconies. one side of carnival ships are non smoking, did you consider the other side of the ship or is everyone supposed to bow to you. i dont smoke, dont really like ot but i am smart enough not to sit in smoking section and then complain

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