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Carnival Miracle Cruise Review to Mexico

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Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 33

Overall rating:

1.9 out of 5
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Carnival Miracle

4 Night Catalina & Baja Mexico (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 24, 2023

Ship: Carnival Miracle

Cabin number: GUAR

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 10 months ago

Review summary

Over crowed at 2547 passengers on a 2100 passenger ship. When asking about events, guest services and events sponsors did not know anything, useless.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Main Dining: Meats tough, 4 Jumbo shrimp the size of pennies, generally substandard and small portions, Buffet: greasy buffet food, Asian poor quality, Deli Fries Good; Blue Lagoon Catinia Burro's Good; Guy's Burgers OK, Fries bad;

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
Poor music, no dancing, Players Productions were low quality, Theater seating good, Overabundance of ship sales activities, little else compared to other sailings.

Entertainment

2 out of 5
Take Two good, the rest ?????

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
Fair to midland, friendly staff. Guest services useless, two inquires received no answers, ended up not donating to St Jude because no one could tell you how the event was to be held or where to signup.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
Old, clean in general areas.

Cabin / Stateroom

2 out of 5
Location of emergency button on headboard constantly being tripped by pillows resulting phone calls in the middle of night, Bathroom completely tiled very slippery for my knee replacement fall concerns, water pooled on the whole large floor in bathroom every time shower used did not drain. Not cleaned whole trip by housekeeping.

Ship tip

Don't

Ports of call

Catalina Island, California

3 out of 5

Ensenada, Mexico

1 out of 5

Disembarkation

3 out of 5
Bussed offsite due to no local parking available to our ship. Parking garage at terminal not allowed to use.
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7 Comments

Sogmoore     10 months ago

A cruise is what you make it

Gwbigdog     10 months ago

Oops sorry 😞 thanks

Mboys     10 months ago

That's too bad. We were just on the Miracle Dec 10-14 and it didn't feel crowded at all. Not sure how many people were actually on board.

Niavlys     10 months ago

Sardines cruise... More money for them..

Rureadyinla     10 months ago

I would expect a Christmas cruise to be packed. I’ve been in miracle twice (and scheduled again for Jan ‘24) and loved it, but I sail on journey cruises when kids are typically in school. Hopefully much has not changed since the last time I was in this ship (May ‘23).

cruising2004     10 months ago

Miracle can hold 2667 passengers. Sorry you were disappointed.

karlgrgurich     10 months ago

Wow. Sorry for your experience. Not a nice vacation