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Carnival Radiance Cruise Review to Mexico

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 8

Overall rating:

3.5 out of 5
Carnival Radiance

4 Night Baja Mexico (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 03, 2023

Ship: Carnival Radiance

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 2302

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

In general, my family and I are happy with our trip experience and will continue to cruise with Carnival. As after not cruising for about 15 years but experienced it on many occasions before, we are a lot more familiar with changed rules/regulation and will plan on advertising to family members and friends.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
On site check-in is not friendly-use but once in person, well assisted

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
As a previous frequent Carnival trip-goer, I found dinning areas very well kept but the food definitely needed more spice/flavor.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
There was no lack of on-going activities!

Entertainment

3 out of 5
For the most part, it appeared that maybe one or two new group performance might of been a first time....? I could see that Carnival's management appeared to be personally reviewing.

Children's Programs

4 out of 5
As I now brought my daughter, first Carnival trip, we are pleasantly surprised that their is a lot more activities for children of all ages!

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
The services of everyone, are very professional... except the personnel in the Guest Relation's Dept. It is difficult to understand them due to their strong accent and most important, they do NOT issued same information on same topic(s). Seems like they are not all on the same "page," I was always getting different information when asking different Staff.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Carnival Radiance was always kept clean and maintained!

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
My family and I, appreciated the professional cleanliness services, provided.

Ship tip

Definately, a very disappointing regulation, Carnival makes you perchase adult drink package for all adults in the cabin, regardles if someone does NOT drink.

Ports of call

Long Beach (Los Angeles), California

4 out of 5

Catalina Island, California

3 out of 5
Carnival should allow the general on-board guest to disembark anytime prior or during per-scheduled activities.

Ensenada, Mexico

2 out of 5
The Ensenada port was very clean and populated with Carnival's personnel, except after a few hours of disembarking... there was NO ONE, to guide or ask questions.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Unfortunately, we had a terrible experience, where Carnival missed placed one of our laguage and took a while to locate.
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6 Comments

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

StuPedasso    1 year ago

Nice share thanks

javawoody    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

cruising2004    1 year ago

Thank you for sharing your cruising experience.

AuntPinkie    1 year ago

Welcome back to cruising. Glad you enjoyed your cruise in spite of the all the changes over the last 15 years.

Carnivalfoodie    1 year ago

Good review. Thanks

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