Carnival cuts corners

Item: Carnival Panorama
Rating: 3.5
Author: betsyrieken

Carnival Panorama Cruise Review to Transpacific

betsyrieken

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 11

Overall rating:

3.5 out of 5

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18 Night Transpacific - Carnival Journeys (Los Angeles To Yokohama)

Sail date: August 22, 2024

Ship: Carnival Panorama

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 2284

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 months ago

Review summary

Carnival is cutting corners. People are encouraged to eat just two meals. Breakfast replaced with "Brunch". Premium dishes cost extra, bad coffee, and so it goes. But all the cruise lines are doing this. Just more so for Carnival.

Embarkation

3 out of 5

Okay.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Food in main dining room was good. Chicken and Beef too tough. Fish was fine. Coffee worse than usual. Sugar-free desserts were better than cruise lines.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Fitness center crowded on this trip. Very popular.

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Shouting is becoming the norm for singing. A little subtlety would help. (Ear plugs were suggested.)

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

They were all great.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Pretty much as expected.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Ship tip

Bring ear plugs.

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Ports of call

Long Beach (Los Angeles), California

3 out of 5

Stayed on Queen Mary. Quite interesting.

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Ketchikan, Alaska

3 out of 5

Mud slide was exciting. One death. Town was impacted.

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Cruise Endicott Arm, Alaska Did not visit port

Medical emergency prevented seeing this port

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Sitka, Alaska

4 out of 5

Nice walkway along shoreline and through forest.

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Icy Strait Point (Hoonah), Alaska

4 out of 5

Beautiful walk through the forest.

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Otaru (Sapporo), Japan

2 out of 5

Disappointing Botanical Garden.

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Aomori, Japan

4 out of 5

Canal walk, Music box Museum, railroad walk all good.

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Disembarkation

1 out of 5

Seemed organized but actually we were called to depart much too early. Stood out in sun 2.5 hours waiting for taxi.

10 Comments

DLT364 12 days ago

Never had a problem getting 3 or even more meals a day. Been on multiple carnival ships

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Gwbigdog 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise

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Sogmoore 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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cruising2004 2 months ago

Been on several Carnival ships and we have never been encouraged to only eat 2 meals a day.

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javawoody 2 months ago

Appreciate your view

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rbmacoy 2 months ago

I’m sorry you misunderstood what seaday brunch is. You can definitely have an early breakfast as well as a brunch and a lunch and dinner. Carnival has never limited how many meals you can enjoy. On longer cruises they switch between breakfast and brunch in the MDR every other day to offer more options. You may have not understood this either.

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jallaway 2 months ago

I have a genius solution. Go to seaday brunch early for breakfast and then go back again for lunch and order something different. Your brain will be like WHAAAAA???

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HeavySeas 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise experience

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Kracka 2 months ago

Brunch has nothing to do with cutting corners, it's become extremely popular and mainstream trendy on-land across every suburb in America. Carnival still offers 3 traditional meals per day if you prefer, along with endless snacking opportunities.

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billcravey 2 months ago

Wow those sea days back and forth, twice, to Japan must have been amazing!

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