Enjoyed the Itinerary, but not impressed with Carnival

Item: Carnival Miracle
Rating: 3.1
Author: CheChe1

Carnival Miracle Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

CheChe1

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Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 3

Helpful Votes: 117

Overall rating:

3.1 out of 5

7 Night Western Caribbean (Tampa Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 26, 2019

Ship: Carnival Miracle

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

This was our 15th Cruise, 1st on Carnival probably last but would go back if our grandkids go. It was more affordable for them. I did like that on the safety drill you don’t have to carry your life jackets. I like the placement of the elevators better than most ships, waits were good. Overall the availability of food in the food court was less than adequate. BUT, the pizza was very good. It was unfortunate that the customers fail to follow the dress code for the main dining room, on formal nights (while we are not real formal folks) quite a few people wore shorts and t-shirts, just disappointing when the dress code is posted in your contract when you agree to a cruise. Another thing was they allow people to smoke all the time in the casino. Most ship carriers have smoke nights but it’s not every night to where everyone has to breath in the bad effects of second hand smoke.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Good

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Main Dining room was ok, the buffets; another story... the food was ok, but if you had a shore excursion and you get back on ship at 3’ish’ ready to eat, there’s only 3 places open to eat at the food court (pizza, deli & and 1 burger) with at least 50 people in each line...

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Pool

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Enjoyed the comedians

Children's Programs

Kids didn’t want to partake

Service and Staff

2 out of 5

Our waiter at dinner was great, we loved her. The morning servers in the main dining room at best were very unfriendly, you could tell they didn’t want to be doing this early shift.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

The ship was a smaller vessel than we usually take and older but it was fine.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Cabin was usual size and comfort. It was not quite clean when we arrived; chips on floor from previous guest. A pair of flip flops and a magazine left on floor by trash can from previous guests.