Carnival Great - Saint Lucia stinks and dangerous

Carnival Liberty Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 43

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
Carnival Liberty

7 Night Southern Caribbean (San Juan Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 03, 2016

Ship: Carnival Liberty

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 7248

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

The staff of Carnival remains great and wonderful. My sincere thanks to Raj who served us at the sit down dinner every night. He certainly made our evening a delight.

My on board experience was superb. The staff kept our cabins spotless. Hats off to them for doing such an outstanding job especially taking care of one of the suites where our four teenage daughters stayed. Their room was a perpetual hurricane. Somehow Gideon was able to clean up the aftermath day after day with a smile.

 

We loved most of the ports especially St.Kitts and I strongly recommend Greg's Safari.

 

Now, I want all parents of young teenage daughters to read this carefully. St. Lucia is dangerous and the vendors on the beaches are thugs and bullies. St. Lucia needs to control these vendors. These male vendors kept hitting on our daughters and finally my wife told them to leave us alone.

 

well we were threatened to be killed, verbally abused, and told to leave St. Lucia. One vendor gang actually suggested that they chop us to pieces. We felt great danger and had to hurry back to the boat. I DO NOT RECOMMEND GETTING OFF AT ST. LUCIA.

 

 

 

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Raj our server was fantastic and a highlight of our trip. He is the best we have met and we have been on many cruises.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Gideon was a hero to keep the cabins clean. He was wonderful and accommodating.

Ship tip

STAY AWAY FROM SAINT LUCIA.

Ports of call

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

5 out of 5

Bridgetown, Barbados

3 out of 5

Castries, St. Lucia

1 out of 5
Dangerous vendors on beach. threats to white people and they tried to touch the girls. when you ask to be left alone then they threated to kill you. worst place to go. Take this warning seriously.

Basseterre, St. Kitts

5 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

3 out of 5
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4 Comments

nancyK8227114    8 years ago

The port is what you should have rated low not the ship

DFromATX    8 years ago

I agree. Your review was so positive until you went to port. What happened to your family sounds horrible and I'm glad y'all are ok, but that wasn't carnival's fault.

CrusinTim    8 years ago

I agree with earthseed. It reads as though you had a very good experience on the Liberty yet it was the port of St. Lucia that you had problems with. The port is not controlled by the cruise line. May I recommend you write a strong letter to the Government of St. Lucia and/or their tourist board regarding your experience. You can find their contact info here......  http://stlucianow.com/contact

earthseed    8 years ago

I'm sorry your daughters had to endure such horrible street harassment. That is never ok. Sounds like the ship deserved more than 2 stars though.

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