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Carnival Fascination Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

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Reviews: 2
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Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Carnival Fascination

5 Night Bahamas (Jacksonville Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 07, 2015

Ship: Carnival Fascination

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: E170

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

We are veteran cruisers but had a bad experience with Carnival many years ago,so  we avoided them. This time it was a wedding in Jacksonville that made up our minds to try it. We were very surprised with the overall improvement. The food was excellent and the service was fine. The ship was small enough to get around in. We spent many hours in the Serenity (adult) area. There were 2 hot tubs there and was generally quiet enough to read a book. Sure the hot tubs attracted groups of social drinkers later in the afternoon. The shows were good and there were 2 comedians that used some pretty raw language and sex was the dominant content. If you are drinking I suppose it is funny? There seems to be a bar in every public room ,so it is the party ship. Most of the passengers were from southern states,so most of the music was country-western. We prefer to do some quiet dancing before and after dinner. No way on this ship! In summary, we enjoyed the cruise.We were really surprised to see how much Carnival improved. Would we go Carnival again? Maybe, but from a different port. We were told that the ship Fascination will be replaced in April 2016  

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
we were told that all cabins were alike. Was a good location and well maintained

Ship tip

ssThe overall experience is very good. Especially if you like a party environment. They try hard to make it so you will return to Carnival again and again. By the way, if you have 100 shares of Carnival stock, you will get a company discount ,according to 2 passenger

Ports of call

Jacksonville, Florida

5 out of 5

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island

5 out of 5
we took a glass bottom boat, the sights were great but we encountered some bad sea conditions . not tranquil as we expected

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5
We took a taxi tour with Reynaldo. $20pp, Was excellent Took us thruout the Island and Atlantis. We recommend him
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theseasforme    9 years ago

All Carnival ships have bars in just about every area of the ship. I am not a drinker but it didn't bother me that the bars were everywhere. Kind of strange you only got to hear country music...most have a variety of music being played in different areas of the ship. As for the comedy show...they have two different shows. They have an adult only and a family friendly one... I have been to both and personally I didn't care for the adult one either. I love Carnival though and will be going on the Fascination December 14th. Glad you gave them a try again and thank you for your review of this ship!

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