issue in the cabin

Carnival Magic Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 38

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
Carnival Magic

7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 20, 2015

Ship: Carnival Magic

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 1257

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

My wife and I were happy with food, staff, value and the itinerary. But we had a very bad experience during the cruise. At about 4 AM in the morning on Wednesday, Sept 23, both my wife and I were woken up with very bad and suffocation odor in the cabin. (1257). The smell was very strong and we were unable to breathe. Since we were not able to reach anyone on the phone I went to Guest services and reported the matter to the person at the desk. I believe his name has been Mark. The person told me that it was a known problem and the appropriate people were working on the issue. We met another couple at the lobby area who had the same problem. My wife and I waited in the lobby until about 6 AM  in the morning. At that time we were told that the problem was fixed and we could return to out cabin. There was no follow up or any information provided to us as to what happened. We made an inquiry with Guest services  about the incident at about 6 pm on Saturday, Sept 26 and Kurk (?). Initially he said there was no record about our experience. Then he said he had to check with someone and went into the back of the services area. He came back and told us that indeed there was an incident and our report had been recorded. He also informed us that Carnival would give us 20% off of our cost to compensate for our troubles.  We have seen nothing so far

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

3 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

3 out of 5

Belize City, Belize

3 out of 5

Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

5 out of 5
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8 Comments

cjr4014    9 years ago

We are booked same floor, midship. Sure hope for better results. I don't expect perfection, just a good overall experience. Still excited. Thank you for the information.

calesaric    9 years ago

they were good about our issue. they moved or cabin. they gave me onboard credit for another cruise. and we have been back on the glory twice since then and no issues. actually going back on the glory in 17 days. they have never been anything but nice and accommodating.

calesaric    9 years ago

we were on deck 2 midship.

cjr4014    9 years ago

my question is, what floor were you on?

sw100148    9 years ago

devineconforti your dates don't seem right and what ship were you on when this happens

calesaric    9 years ago

we had the same thing happen on the glory. they said it was from the galley, which I still don't believe. it was so bad that they moved us to another stateroom. interesting that it happened around the same time of the day for us.

devineconforti    9 years ago

what was the ship you were on

devineconforti    9 years ago

the same thing happened to us on on magic every night around 1am when the workers started cleaning we figured is was the grease they were cleaning up in the kitchens and it was coming in from the ac vents and smelled like rotten eggs our cruise was sept 27 - Oct 30 this was our second cruise and it didn't happen on our other cruise on triumph

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