Carnival Magic for Christmas

Item: Carnival Magic
Rating: 4
Author: sandyewks

Carnival Magic Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

sandyewks

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 20

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

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7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 20, 2015

Ship: Carnival Magic

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9268

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

Great experience but be ready for a lot of children. Ports were fine, especially Jamaica. Food in The American Table restaurant was very good and nice presentations.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

I did not partake of much of this.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

A little small inside and tight on the balcony.

Ship tip

Nice ship.

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Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

3 out of 5

George Town, Grand Cayman

3 out of 5

Montego Bay, Jamaica

5 out of 5

Good Hope Estate was a good excursion. If you have children I recommend the full experience.

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15 Comments

xTCbaose5N9GWQSXwhjTlEwFD 8 years ago

did you go when the kids were out from holiday vacations

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Katievp 8 years ago

I agree with DWB. Your original post was worded as if you had small kids running loose. I totally agree with YOU, that yes, older teenagers need their fredom. As long as they have been raised to behave and use manors. I also agree with you about the large amounts of annoying drunk so called adults.

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Boysmomtami 8 years ago

I always see well behaved young people, most often it's drunk adults that are the safety issue & problem on ships.

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Boysmomtami 8 years ago

Actually I wasn't baiting people at all, I honestly didn't expect anyone to jump down my throat & really don't care what people think. We have been on many cruises & can say with all certainty that I know we are in the majority. There are never teenagers sitting around with their parents unless it's a meal or maybe for the shows. Also I've never run into these so called "brats" on the ship.

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DWB 8 years ago

You didn't say your kids are old enough to drive in your original post. I consider the way you wrote your first post baiting people. Any child under 13 needs supervised to a degree. Ships can be dangerous places.

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jtmaysfamily 8 years ago

I have early teens and I let them do their thing on the ship. They were raised to be polite and respectful no matter where they are. Some people are simply intolerant of others. I could complain about all the grumpy old people and drunk twenty somethings but hey, it's all part of being on a cruise. You get all types.

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Boysmomtami 8 years ago

lol, I'm not the one with the problem

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Boysmomtami 8 years ago

On more thing, Carnival will let kids as young as 9 sign themselves in & out of the kids club

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Boysmomtami 8 years ago

My oldest son travelled to Germany to live for 1/2 of grade 11 @ 15 years old & completed school there on his own. Maybe my kids are more mature then yours. They won't even use the elevators on the ship, because they don't want to hold it up for adults, they join dance classes, poker tourneys, learn how to make towel animals. I am disabled & cannot keep up to them, so while I relax they enjoy

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Boysmomtami 8 years ago

Well since we live in a city of over 1 million strangers & they can drive themselves around, I can trust them on a ship. I don't know what kind of teenagers you raised, but my boys are very good kids. They do check in with us at meals & of course on the days we get off the ship they stay with us. They don't piss around near the edge of the boat so I'm not worried about them falling in.

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Brucet 8 years ago

Sounds to me likes it just n excuse to not watch your kids. In this day and age how can a concerned parent just let their kids go into harms way???? What if they fall overboard no way I could have a good time knowing a curious normal teenager Has got free reign. What happened to a family vacation where you stay with your family??? This is like going to a strange town of 5000 folks you don't know

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Boysmomtami 8 years ago

My kids are teenagers, it is not irresponsible for us to let me do there own thing own a Cruise Ship. As I stated our youngest stays with us, but my teenagers are responsible enough to hang out on a cruise ship.

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Katievp 8 years ago

Just because they're on vacation isn't a reason to let them run around unsupervised. It's disrespectful to others and dangerous for them. People are mean and there's no cruise ship bubble to keep them safe when running around unsupervised.

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Boysmomtami 8 years ago

We are one of those families that brings 4 Children with us & Yes we let them all run around unsupervised (except the youngest), people should expect that on Carnival because it's affordable to take families on. Our kids are also on Vacation & there to have fun. This year we are going 2 weeks after Easter, it's Spring Break for us, but I don't know if the US kids are our that week.

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sweetliberty13 8 years ago

We are taking the Estate excursion/Dunns River combo. We are travelling with older children and my parents - so we will have three generations participating. We appreciate the overall value of Carnival and NCL - but are hesitant to go during school breaks. We have tried the week before and the week after most schools go on break - and have still had the same issue with oodles of children. It doesn't really bother us much. There are plenty of opportunities to find solace.Carnival seems to do a far better job of enforcement in the serenity deck area than NCL.

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