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Carnival Paradise Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 15

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Carnival Paradise

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.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Nice, bed too hard though. Staff was excellent.

Ports of call

Tampa, Florida

3 out of 5

George Town, Grand Cayman

3 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
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7 Comments

halloweensherry    7 years ago

We paid for our Cheers program on the 15th of this month ...went back and checked my receipt....it was. $574.42 total for 2 people for 5 days. on Paradise Cozumel/Grand Cayman.

sherry1025    7 years ago

the price for cheers don't seem right for 2 people they told me 50$ a day plus gratuity

ramonap    7 years ago

some people cannot be pleased. do your homework the next time.

willwork4cruz    7 years ago

If you are bored on Carnival it won't likely get better on another line. Maybe give it another twenty

davidnlisa    7 years ago

"Roll eyes"

darylmiles    7 years ago

try another cruise line and do the leg work yourself over the Web and your sure to enjoy the next 1

barkley8795    7 years ago

Guess you should of done your research about the cheers program, it's not required to buy, if you knew you didn't drink that much then that's your fault, no else's. Sounds like you didn't do any research about anything, but to each their own!

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