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Item: Carnival Paradise
Rating: 3.6
Author: FlaCruiserRalph

Carnival Paradise Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

FlaCruiserRalph

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 13

Overall rating:

3.6 out of 5

5 Night Western Caribbean (Tampa Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 23, 2018

Ship: Carnival Paradise

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: E240

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

If you are looking for really good service onboard, think again about Carnival Paradise. However, our cabin steward (Marvin) was excellent. There is nothing major wrong with this ship -- it just lacks a lot of little quality services found on other ships. The safety drill, as we were leaving port, was a complete and utter mess. No one, including the person making the announcements over the PA system, had a clue what they were doing. Heavens forbid what would happen during an actual emergency.

Embarkation

1 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

The buffet was horrible. We normally prefer the buffet over the dining room, but not on Carnival Paradise.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Our cabin steward (Marvin) was excellant. Onboard communication (announcements) was terrible. The Carnival Hub app was terrible (did not work at all for about 2 days.)

Ship Quality

2 out of 5

Hand sanitizers were almost non-existant. One at entrance to eating areas and that's it. We had 5 cabins and 3 of the 5 had air conditioning problems which were never fixed.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5