Carnival is awesome. New Yorkers on my boat were not.

Item: Carnival Magic
Rating: 4.6
Author: frathornton

Carnival Magic Cruise Review

frathornton

Contributor Level: Purser

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Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Reviews: 2

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Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5

8 Night Eastern Caribbean (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 18, 2022

Ship: Carnival Magic

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 10222

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

Loved it, and would do it again. Carnival is awesome. Fellow passengers ruined a very good thing. New Yorkers are incredibly rude. They were actually creative in the ways they found to disparage and show others they have zero desire to improve the lives of anyone except themselves. They yelled. They held up lines for fun. They were careless and treated staff with a great deal of disdain. Common curtesy was not a thing on this boat for the vast majority. They actually enjoyed complaining and arguing. Vacation should be a time that you can chill out!! But not with New Yorkers. You want to go out of any other port to avoid these people. Some have suggested it was kids on summer vacation. However, there were many adults that behaved worse than children on this cruise. I advise you to never sail out of New York. Full stop.

Embarkation

3 out of 5

Considerably slower than usual. In retrospect I think this is not because of staff, but because the guests on this boat enjoyed backstabbing, elbowing and being entirely inconsiderate of all others.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Incredibly hard working staff every day, every circumstance, always. If you didn’t find something good to eat or drink you weren’t looking hard enough. Also, the portions seemed small at first. But later I started to appreciate this! Normally I have to loosen a belt notch or two after a cruise, but I think this was a measure to avoid waste. You can always go get seconds. Lots of times by the time you waited in line for a bit, I decided a cup of coffee or tea would suffice. Also did the chefs table, and knowing a thing or two about culinary arts, Agus and his team knocked it out of the park.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Soe was our favorite evening waiter- the kid had hustle and at the appropriate times, got to know us, and we him. I particularly enjoyed a couple of bartenders, as well. All of the staff of the alchemy bar were spectacular. I’ve been behind the rail in my day, and their inventiveness and creativity was not wasted on me. Mirella had an incredible bed side manner, capacity to listen and create anything you wanted and consistently delivered. Besides that, her hands were so beautiful - half of the fun was sitting at the bar and watching drinks be made. Mignon at the steakhouse bar was lovely as well. I so appreciate that staff is placed in a manner that allows guest interaction. Slinging drinks, as many bartenders do, is the furtherest thing from her attentiveness toward us.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

I want to be clear - every single one of the complaints I have about this cruise had nothing to do with ANYTHING within Carnival’s control. The passengers were awful. Terrible. Rotten. I will never visit the city of New York again because of the last week. Incredibly rude and hateful. Lots of weed was smoked on the boat. Cutting in line and public disturbances were commonplace. I heard about two instances of theft and I’m sure there were many more. People physically fought in public. Regularly heard people running up and down the hallways yelling for no particular reason at 2am. First I thought there were a lot of British because no one walked on the right side of the hallway. Nope! New Yorkers are just inconsiderate and care about no one else in the universe. No volume control and crass about everything, even in front of kids and in areas intended to be quieter. Ruined the vacation. Ignorance at its finest.

Thumbs up

Ports of call

New York, New York

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5

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