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Item: Carnival Elation
Rating: 4.2
Author: mykids71

Carnival Elation Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

mykids71

Contributor Level: Third Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 3

Helpful Votes: 104

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5

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4 Night Bahamas (Jacksonville Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 15, 2018

Ship: Carnival Elation

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: U80

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

The ship, staff and entertainment was awesome!! Enjoyed our cruise

Embarkation

1 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ports of call

Jacksonville, Florida

1 out of 5

Was dissatisfied from the minute we got off the shuttle. While going through checked luggage, half of our group of 14 went through while the rest of us got stopped because they were told to stop letting people go through for five minutes. Not sure what clock they were going by because that five minutes was actually 15 minutes. While we are standing there waiting, the rest of our family are in the next line throwing their hands up like what are we doing? Why are we not coming on? We have never had so much trouble getting on the ship and had already made the decision that Port Canaveral was much more organized and a lot less trouble but we thought once we got on the ship it would be smooth sailing and this experience would fade and probably would have if getting off the ship at Jacksonville had not been the absolute worst experience we have ever had in our many cruises

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Freeport, Grand Bahama Island

4 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5

The four hour delay due to fog was understandable, the extra four hours waiting to get off the ship was down right ridiculous!! Jacksonville is the absolute worst, most unorganized port we have ever been to. We thought we would be cutting out two hours of driving by going to Jacksonville when we actually could have driven two hours longer to Port Canaveral and been home a lot faster. It was a learning experience that will never happen again!!! The ship was fine and enjoyable but we will never port from Jacksonville again! Also because of the four hour delay to port and the additional four hours to ever get off the ship, our shuttle service was screwed up and we had to wait an additional hour and a half before the driver picked us up. I just can’t even put into words how disappointed we were and had hoped that we would have the same luck we always have with Port Canaveral and save us a total of four hours of driving in the future but it’s not worth it..

2 Comments

cruisereckoning 4 years ago

Thanks for the review.

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rtshaker 5 years ago

The Elation was the first ship I cruised on, in 2002.

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