As expected
Carnival Paradise Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western
5 Night Western Caribbean (Tampa Roundtrip)
Sail date: February 18, 2017
Ship: Carnival Paradise
Cabin type: Oceanview
Cabin number: E133
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
Best Parts: 1. Cabin was nice. Be sure to get a cabin with windows. 2. The bars serve TOP SHELF liquor. 3. Food was OK, some good some fair. 4. Seas were calm. 5. Everything went as advertised.
Worse Parts: 1. Pool filled with Kids all the time. 2. Adult only section was too small, always full. 3. The CHEERS program was a rip off. $631 for 5 days for 2 people. Can't drink that much. 4. Got bored on the ship. Not enough to do on board. You can only lay in the sun and drink for a couple days before you get bored. 5. Bed was HARD! 6. No info provided about what to do at the island stops if you don't care to purchase activities. They don't even provide a map of the islands so you can't plan ahead what you will do on the islands for the day. Everything is sell, sell, sell.
This was my second cruise. On the first cruise I bought shore excursions, they were fun. On the first one I used Carnival's travel agency. They planned the flights and cruise. They planned the flight arrival poorly and my luggage didn't get to me for 2 days. They flew it to Grand Cayman. The worst part was they blamed me for scheduling the flight timing too close to the ship departure when they planned the entire thing. No refund, no apology. That was 20 years ago. So after 20 years I decided to try again. Probably won't do another cruise. Just too boring and I feel ripped off by the CHEERS program.
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