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Carnival Magic Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 36

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5
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Carnival Magic

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 27, 2019

Ship: Carnival Magic

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Cruise and ports were very nice and beautiful. You can be as busy or lazy as you want, the choice was yours. Food was good; nice entertainment especially for families.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Although we didn't know what was going on it was pretty easy to get on.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Loved Guy's Burger joint and Guy's BBQ joint. didn't go to any specialty restaurants, the buffets were OK, little disappointed in the deserts.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Harry Potter Trivia was fun, loved the comedy club, went to almost all of them, dropped in on a dance get together and that was fun. Spa was great.

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Children's Programs

No kids

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Our room steward Lauro was great! Took the time to remember our names even though he had more than one room to take care of. MarQ was delightful!

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
I was able to figure out the layout pretty quickly, all common areas were clean and well maintained however, I did hear one person talk about how someone was "spit cleaning"the rails so I only marked this section as Good.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Very comfortable however only one person could fit in the bathroom at a time which made going out to the comedy club take a little longer than expected.

Ship tip

know the layout of the ship so that you can efficiently get from room to event.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida Did not visit port

We flew in the same day the ship was to leave.

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

2 out of 5
If you don't have an excursion planned there wasn't much to do at Amber Cove. It really seemed like we were routed there just to get us to buy something.

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

4 out of 5
Would have liked a better map of things to do here, we did have one excursion and it was really nice and a good way to get some pictures of the port. But again, if you don't have an excursion booked it was really hard to see anything at the port.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

3 out of 5
Our excursion was cancelled so that was disappointing, it rained that day so there was not much to do.

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5
This place was great because a public beach was easily accessible, the bit of shopping was reasonable but the beach was the best.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
We didn't make any special plans to get off and thought we were going to be stuck waiting 3 hours to get off the boat, however we went down early to sit and wait and was pleasantly surprised when a young man said that we could leave because we had our luggage with us, felt really lucky!!!
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1 Comment

AuntPinkie    5 years ago

Nice balanced review. Glad you had a good experience.

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