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Carnival Magic Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 39

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
Carnival Magic

7 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 17, 2019

Ship: Carnival Magic

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

We had fun on our cruise and made the Best of everything. I will cruise again with Carnival just not on the Carnival Magic.

Embarkation

2 out of 5
The ship was late, it’s was chaos.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Main dinning took 2 to 2.5 hours to eat. I think that’s way to long. They are way under staffed. The Buffet bar’s were ok.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
The pools were very small. There was so many people in them, you could never find a spot to get in.

Entertainment

2 out of 5
The performers were ok, I didn’t like that every show had the same ones over and over.

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
Waiters did what they could I suppose, there just wasn’t enough of them to keep up with how many was in the dinning room. Room Stewards was just ok. Our cabin was dirty when we got on board, the floor hadn’t been vacuumed, our bed sheets had hair in them (and not just a few) we found a empty cigarette box beside the refrigerator. One day when they came in to clean the room we came back and there was an envelope on the table between the beds that wasn’t ours with someone else name on it, it looked as if he had found it under the bed and just forgot to take it with him. He never called us by our names, never asked us each day if we needed anything. When we called guest services they were rude and barely gave us the time to get out the reason for us calling.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
The ship was cleaned ok, not like the other ship I had been on. The one that stood out to me was hand santinzer station’s wasn’t as visible as I thought they should be. Like on another cruise line I was on the had staff that stood in front of the restaurant’s and buffet’s and even the elevators and offered hand sanitizer which I thought was pretty cool.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
The size was ok for 3 people. The cleanliness was explained in the above comment.

Ship tip

Get to know Marc Q (the cruise director) he’s Awesome!!

Ports of call

Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

5 out of 5
Most Beautiful Place I’ve Ever seen in my Life!!! We went parasailing and just enjoyed the beach and Beautiful water!

Belize City, Belize

2 out of 5
So Hot! No Beach! We were fooled into a limousine ride with Air Condition and Cold Water and a tour of the city. Now the tour of the city was right on and good, but I promise it was cooler Outside than it was in the limousine!!! We were miserable on that ride!

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
We did a excursion on our own Mr Sanchos and it was Wonderful!

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
It was good.
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1 Comment

cbyron3    5 years ago

Was on the same sailing. It was the best service, food and overall experience we've had. We're booked on her again in June and can't wait. Our new favorite ship.

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