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Carnival Pride Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern
10 Night Exotic Eastern Caribbean Carnival Journeys (San Juan To Baltimore)
Sail date: January 28, 2016
Ship: Carnival Pride
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 5289
Traveled as: Family (older children)
Reviewed: 8 years ago
Review summary
My biggest complaint with Carnival is the food. The quantity and quality are both lacking. Unless you want an ok pizza everyday, there are no options from 3-6 pm. So in other words when you board the ship around 4 everyday you cannot get a decent meal for another two hours (decent is a generous description). My daughter is a very picky eater but she looooves tacos. She was beyond excited to learn that there was a taco bar and vowed to eat there everyday. Because they close at 2:30 everyday she was only able to eat there once on a sea day and hated it, no ground beef for tacos?!?!?!?!
My second complaint with Carnival is the lack of entertainment. However, the few shows that they did provide were pretty good. This is certainly not a family oriented cruise as I would estimate the vast majority of passengers were between 50-70. There were 42 passengers under the age of 21 on our cruise.
We have been on both Royal Caribbean and NCL and would highly recommend either over Carnival!
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Ship tip
Bring a surge protector, there is only one outlet throughout the entire stateroom.
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10 Comments
DWB 8 years ago
I don't know how long it's been since you've been on RCI and Norwegian. Carnival's food is much, much better. If you go off the ship for a long time you either eat out or eat lighter until supper. There is no shortage of food on Carnival. Shouldn't your kids be in school? Otherwise they are adults and have to eat like adults. Carnival's shows are much better than the others too.
kbiedlingmaier 8 years ago