Cheap but not good
Carnival Paradise Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western
5 Night Western Caribbean (Tampa Roundtrip)
Sail date: April 24, 2017
Ship: Carnival Paradise
Cabin type: Inside
Cabin number: M30
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
The ship was a little dated but looked clean. Everything seemed to work ok except the ship itself. The food was below average. A couple of nights I had to send my food back and order something different. Example: the lasagna. It was a noodle on the top, a noodle on the bottom and NOTHING but meat in between. The ship itself was apparently not in good working order. We were notified a couple of weeks before we sailed that because the ship wasn't operating at optimum speed we had to scratch our trip to Grand Cayman and go to Costa Maya. They gave us a whopping $25 credit for our inconvenience. Also, to get to certain parts of the ship you had to pass through casinos and bars where tobacco smoke thick. As a customer with a terminal lung disease I was not pleased to have to walk through that. I understand that you need places for people to smoke, but don't make those places a public thoroughfare. I consider Carnival to be the Walmart of cruising. Yeah it's cheap, but it's not great quality. I will say that our room steward, Raul, was excellent. He was very attentive to what we needed. I was glad to give him an extra gratuity for his service. I don't plan on ever sailing with Carnival again.
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It was a cheap cruise and frankly, you get what you pay for.