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Carnival Fantasy Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 24

Overall rating:

4.3 out of 5
Carnival Fantasy

5 Night Western Caribbean (Mobile Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 16, 2018

Ship: Carnival Fantasy

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: R144

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

The food is great, but if you plan on swimming, plan to be annoyed by too many children. If you plan on going in the hot tub, plan to go to the adult only area where kids are not allowed. I would give them a 5 if they hadn’t chose white customers behind me to take their orders first. Cleaning staff was amazing.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
The food was great, and for the most part the staff were really friendly and seemed to love their jobs. There were a couple times I felt like white customers in line were served first regardless of me being in front of them. This happen a couple of times on the ship and it happen when we were paying for our excursion in Costa Maya.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Of course there is a lot to do on the ship... but there were only two hot tubs and one pool in the main area. The pool was tiny, so the kids splashing everywhere and getting in the hot tubs with floaties and stepping all over you was really obnoxious! I can’t believe they expect over 2thousand people/families to be able to enjoy that. I think they should either have more pools, make them bigger, and/or have stricter rules about the hot tubs!

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
I would give them a 5 if they hadn’t chose white customers behind me to take their orders first. Cleaning staff was amazing.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ship tip

The food is great, but if you plan on swimming, plan to be annoyed by too many children. If you plan on going in the hot tub, plan to go to the adult only area where kids are not allowed.

Ports of call

Mobile, Alabama

5 out of 5
Too expensive to park, but the staff are fast and really good at their jobs!

Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico

4 out of 5
Could have definitely saved money and just stayed on the port, but I didn’t see anywhere you could get in the ocean water. They have so much to do at the port you could comfortably hang there. This is where we were the first people in line, but the man took the white family before us. We did a beach excursion that had unlimited drinks the beach was beautiful, our waiter was awesome, but the water was filled with seaweed and it smelled kinda bad. I couldn’t wear that swimsuit the rest of the trip without remembering Costa Maya lol!

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
Tax and duty free booze was a plus! Cozumel is breathtaking. The food was great, the water was crystal clear. It was amazing.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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3 Comments

thepeaches44    6 years ago

I wish the pools were bigger too but then again, I guess the thinking is that you will play in the water at the ports. I think there are fewer children if you go when school is in session.

Linkirk    6 years ago

Lots of kids in the summer. Cruising’s not for everyone.

jerrydebra    6 years ago

Sorry that happened, it is never acceptable.

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