Great First Carnival Experience!

Item: Carnival Paradise
Rating: 4.6
Author: cnspivey96

Carnival Paradise Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

cnspivey96

Contributor Level: Purser

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Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Reviews: 3

Helpful Votes: 21

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5

4 Night Western Caribbean (Tampa Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 07, 2019

Ship: Carnival Paradise

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: R78

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

We loved our first Carnival experience and we cannot wait for our next cruise!

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

The main dining was my favorite. We loved the burger and mexican joint as well, but me and my fiance both had bones in our chicken from the mexican place the day of boarding the ship.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

We do not have children

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

We loved all of our servers, room stewards, and bartenders! Everyone was extremely nice and always had us in their best interest and made sure our trip was above and beyond. The staff always had conversations with us and tried to build a relationship with us during the 4 days we had with them!

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ports of call

Tampa, Florida

5 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

4 out of 5

We did the snorkeling and tequila excursion, which we HIGHLY recommend! The drive to the beach was short, which left for lots of snorkeling and tequila time! The only thing we did not know what that we could not stay at that beach as long as we wanted, we thought the snorkeling and lunch ended at the 3 hours but that we could stay, instead we had to be taken back to the port. It was a little upsetting that we didn't get off the boat until about 9 when we were supposed to start being able to get off at 8, but I know things happen and it's not as easy parking a cruise ship like it is a car. We also did not know that we had to taxi to basically everywhere. There is no beach at the port really, so we were not prepared for that.

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Disembarkation

3 out of 5

We did not leave during the time we were scheduled for, and some of the staff off the ship was a little aggressive. Such as the staff near the escalators to be exact.

1 Comment

dmwc 5 years ago

Oh, yes, the escalator people were a bit aggressive. One of them sort of snapped at one of my friends because he had his phone out while we were going down the escalator, and she was still giving a little mini-lecture about people looking at their phones and not paying attention while we were walking away.

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