Over crowded, downgraded cruise after covid

Carnival Magic Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 3
Helpful Votes: 52

Overall rating:

3.5 out of 5
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Carnival Magic

8 Night Eastern Caribbean (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 26, 2022

Ship: Carnival Magic

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6238

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Overcrowded and downgraded cruise. Staff work is over loaded

Embarkation

3 out of 5
After the first island we had to wait by the stairs over an hour, when we arrived back in NY, we did not eat breakfast and left the cruise right away to avoid traffic

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5
The dining rooms are ok, the buffets have the same breakfast options every day. Only 2 days of the 8 days have bacons, buffet at dinner time does not much options. The line for buffet was crazy long.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
We didn’t do much activities on the cruise. The pool was packed most of the time and the benches was taken during the day time. All the other activities was so dirty and old

Entertainment

2 out of 5
I can only give 2 stars out of 5. We used to cruise every year before covid this is not what I expect from the stage

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
The workers work very hard but I don’t feel they are happy for the over loaded work

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
The ship is old

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
We like our stateroom because we had a Balcony, we stayed in the room most of the time because there is nothing to do on the cruise for us

Ship tip

We would suggest the disembarkation can be better, like all out which section can get off the ship first so people don’t all get out at the same time. Also, for the charge items let the customer know how much. I was at teatime and I surprise the staff ask for my key card to charge tea bag. I have been to all my cruise before covid, no one charge tea bag. I was shock. This ship charge every little things.

Ports of call

San Juan, Puerto Rico

3 out of 5
The port was nice but the disembarkation process was crazy, everyone got out the same time, we were waited by the stairs for over an hour

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

4 out of 5
No excursion for us because we have been here many times, we just walk around on the island and took some great pictures

Grand Turk Island

4 out of 5
No excursion for us, we went to downtown for 2 hours and spent the rest of the time by the beach next to the ship.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
We took our time, we know is not a big island.
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12 Comments

GSpringer    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing

AuntPinkie    2 years ago

Sorry this cruise didn’t meet your expectations!

Tropicgal    2 years ago

Thanks for reviewing.

lesplas    2 years ago

Thx for review

Popdog    2 years ago

Thanks for the review.

GabeNSteph    2 years ago

Thanks for the review

hollysmomtravel    2 years ago

Not sure you paid attention to the fact prior to boarding that the Magic is an older ship. Sorry you were disappointed.

Ramsey1986    2 years ago

I’m sorry your cruise didn’t meet your expectations. Hopefully your next cruise will. We had a absolutely great cruise on the Magic in May out of Port Canaveral. Thank you for sharing your review. 😎🚢☀️🩴🏝🪸🐠🌺

SRAlbritton    2 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to share your cruise. Sorry it did not meet your expectations. Maybe during startup you need to lower your expectations a little and just enjoy the time on board.

crusin4gramma    2 years ago

Overcrowded???? Did you ecpect them to not try and fill the ship?

kef2016    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise experience. Sorry it didn’t meet all your expectations.

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise

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