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Carnival Miracle Cruise Review to Mexico

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 43

Overall rating:

4.1 out of 5
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Carnival Miracle

7 Night Mexican Riviera (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 26, 2017

Ship: Carnival Miracle

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 5159

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Fun cruise, lots to do. More than I had time for. Would be fun for a couple or family with kids. Rooms were clean and staff was friendly. So much food!

Embarkation

3 out of 5
Slow, not a lot of direction of what to do or where to go.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Plenty of food. Great options for dinner.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Scavenger hunt and trivia were fun activities. Pictures were WAY too expensive. If they were cheaper, I would have purchased more.

Entertainment

4 out of 5
80's show was great. Nighttime dancing options were limited to none. One night they had dancing on the Lido deck which was fun until they started to play wedding reception songs like chicken dance :\. Would like to have the option of shopping in your shops while at port, but understand that may not be an option.

Children's Programs

2 out of 5
Times were not usable. Should feed the children while in camps so parents don't have to go back and forth, makes it useless. Closing at 4:00 was also not helpful. Opening at 7:00 to 10:00 was also not helpful since dinner was at 6:00 to about 8:00, didn't leave much time afterwards.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Dinner staff was amazing. Gavin was extremely helpful and Christian was great at knowing our names and entertaining us. He was also very helpful and a pleasure to have as a server.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Main common area should have been bigger, large chairs are awkward at night, hard to stand around, should be more open or have stand up tables and chairs or benches along the walls.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Cleanliness was good. Melvin was always on top of it. Should change out soap bars half way during the trip.

Ports of call

Long Beach (Los Angeles), California Did not visit port

We departed only from this location.

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

4 out of 5
Great, fun. Beach was very beautiful. Should offer the Tinder to go straight to beach or into town, not just into town.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Did not visit port

Cancelled. This was disappointing. As this was one of the major reasons of going on this trip. I understand the circumstances but Encenada is basically California. I would have preferred to stay another night in Cabo if we could have.

Disembarkation

3 out of 5
Slow, wait. But understand with the amount of people. Would have preferred to be able to go back to the rooms to hang out and wait until your group was called. Maybe disembark by floor so other levels could remain in their rooms and clean out each floor as they go?
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2 Comments

umpa063    7 years ago

Great to hear good review of the Miracle... Doing an 8 day Western Caribbean Cruise November of 2018 with my lovely lady... Will be first time on this ship.. have been on the Pride out of Baltimore twice and looking forward to going on a different ship... 435 days to go.. Watching the calender... 😃😃

Summerholiday    7 years ago

Great you had a good cruise that's why we do back to back .... countdown 🍹😎

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