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Item: Carnival Pride
Rating: 4.5
Author: Prideforever

Carnival Pride Cruise Review to Bermuda

Prideforever

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 47

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5

7 Night Bermuda (Baltimore Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 17, 2017

Ship: Carnival Pride

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8132

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Best ship ever, will be back in April . We love the port, the crew, wish we could go on longer cruise but have pets at home, we don't need the bigger ship, this is perfect, just wish the smokers had more rights

Embarkation

5 out of 5

I purchased faster to the fun, it was a great experience

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

We normally just do the buffet which is always good

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Pools, I still think more can be done to keep chair hogs from keeping others from getting good seats

Children's Programs

No child

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Dwi was an awesome room steward. Dwi would make an awesome bartender, he was friendly, attentive and ALWAYS cheerful, nothing we asked was too much for him, great person great worker. Charles on the Lido deck was the hardest working person I've ever seen, that man did NOT stop taking pride in his area, smoking section, was always clean because of him , he should be promoted to a room steward!!!!!

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

I've never had a problem with this ship

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Cabin was great, just didn't agree with not being allowed to smoke on my balcony that I paid for, I'm not a careless smoker and mobility is limited for my husband and going up to Lido to smoke is ridiculous, I feel discriminated against because I smoke, maybe one side of the ship should have smoking rooms

Ship tip

Enjoy the best ship in the fleet, not too big, not too small and a very good captain that kept us safe in rough weather.

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Ports of call

Baltimore, Maryland

1 out of 5

We live here, great port for cruising out of

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King's Wharf, Bermuda

5 out of 5

I've been 3 times, love the cleanliness and safe feeling there

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

No problems went very smooth

14 Comments

Gwbigdog 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

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laplumejr 7 years ago

Sorry. I meant to say that fire is the main reason that smoking isn't permitted on the balconies. Fires have been documented to be caused by hot ash being blown by into the room while smoking on the balcony. Just not worth the risk and I for one would love to enjoy a good cigar while taking in the view. But as we all know pretty much all rules were introduced do to lessons learned from previous accidents.

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laplumejr 7 years ago

Honestly. If you really look into it you'll fine that the risk of fire is the number one

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Lbkladybug 7 years ago

We sailed the Pride in July with 30 family members!! We had a ball! Can't wait to do it again!! 🌴🌞🍹🐠🚢🐳⚓️😎

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xina1999 7 years ago

I'm sorry for being snippy. Yeah text to voice can come up with some crazy things. Honestly I'm a former smoker-and I have no beef with smokers that are respectful-but there's always that one guy that is just a jerk and on our last cruise my husband asked him to move as our Youngest has asthma AND it was a non smoking section-I kid you not-he stood up walked over to our table and blew smoke in my three boys faces. Just ridiculous-but he is in the minority

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michaelmarkey 7 years ago

See that’s something that I didn’t know now yes you are right there if there’s a smoker smoking in front of your kids in a non-smoking section out of threw him off the shit but you’re right I definitely wouldn’t want to smoke or around my children specially if I don’t smoke and also I’m using the voice to text that’s why I don’t see the mistakes that it’s making but yes it’s Devon you’re definitely right I mean if you’re in the area they’re smoking is not allowed and a smoker comes in and start smoking I would definitely tell him hey you know get out of this area specially with my kids but you’re absolutely right I definitely wouldn’t smoke aroundAround nobody that don’t smoke so I hope you enjoy your cruise in the future and like I said if anybody smokes around you are in your area that smoking is not allowed let them now you can’t smoke here take care

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xina1999 7 years ago

Huh? Your post has so many grammatical issues I'm not sure what you are saying. Bottom line-there are certain spots on the SHIP where you can smoke-i as a non smoker don't hang out there. I could give two craps if you smoke in the smoking section, but when you light up on the pool deck in a non smoking section and proceed to blow smoke on my little boy's face that isn't only a health risk for him-that's rude and ignorant. See the difference- Michael? You can whine about your rights all you like, but the bottom one is MOST places has rules about lighting up-so don't act like Carnival caters only to smokers and anyone with a difference of opinion is in the minority. And not sure if you've cruised before but your balcony is only a few feet from me...and of rules are you can't smoke on them-you're just pooh out of luck aren't ya?

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michaelmarkey 7 years ago

It kills me that people will complain about smokers and yet they will be up when that shit sitting 2 feet across from people that are smoking cigar‘s and cigarettes but yet going to complain about somebody smoking on the balcony now does that make any sense no it does not and like I said is long as people smoke there is going to be smoking sections on that shit my vice to anyone that doesn’t smoke to try to avoid the smoking section or book a ship that has been smoke-free ship I’m sure that Carnival will help people that doesn’t smoke

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michaelmarkey 7 years ago

Don’t hate the bottom line is you’re going to have smokers on the shit regardless if you don’t smoke and you don’t like smokers then don’t go on the ship when you know there’s smokers they have smoke free ship somewhere people are going to smoke and drink on that shit that’s their vacation my vacation and that’s our right as smokers now since you don’t smoke then it’s up to you to avoid the smokers OK they have sections on that ship that smokers are not allowed I would highly recommend you to hang there unless you don’tHave a problem being around smoke

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xina1999 7 years ago

Umm if I'm on the balcony next to you? And I did love the ashes floating down from the people above us-that was awesome....

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michaelmarkey 7 years ago

I do not know how anybody would get secondhand smoke if I’m smoking on my balcony unless you’re sitting there beside me breathing my smoke at 3 AM in the morning just saying you got a smoke somewhere everybody smokes on that one side of the ship at secondhand smoke

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xina1999 7 years ago

So people that don't smoke should be subjected to your second hand smoke? Which is a health hazard. You want to get drunk-we can ignore you. You blow smoke everywhere that effects people's health

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michaelmarkey 7 years ago

I agree I had to go upstairs every time I wanted to smoke and that is ridiculous they should change that anybody that has a balcony should be allowed to smoke on the balcony

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xina1999 7 years ago

Hold up-being a smoker means your rights are infringed on?

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