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Carnival Radiance Cruise Review to Mexico

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 20

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5
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Carnival Radiance

4 Night Catalina & Baja Mexico (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 09, 2023

Ship: Carnival Radiance

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 1244

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

A very enjoyable vacation for my daughter and I as we celebrated her birthday! Not knowing what to expect for most event, packing tips were very helpful and insightful. The daily schedule would be nice to have before we leave to review and plan our days ahead of time would be nice. The quality of your experience will depend upon your engagement and participation! Be active and enjoy all that the ship has to offer! We did and loved it.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Very easy to navigate, fun activities on board for embarkation

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
We enjoyed the main dining room, thoroughly enjoyed tea and midnight snacks from the buffet. We would like to have more snack opportunities rather than just big meals and fast food!

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Mini golf, gambling, group dancing, tea was wonderful, mini-challenges were very fun,

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Comedy shows were fun, Bingo was slow and winner won in about 9 balls so not worth the money, gambling was fun, challenges throughout the day to earn a trophy were very fun, a great entertainment host - Rigo

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
The dining room was especially attentive - Iwyan our server was impeccable / Yummy Yummy Yummy; our Ensenada tour guides Erick/Jose were amazing, interesting, and funny

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Once we learned the levels, layout everything was easy to locate! Day 1 was a challenge for us

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
We just got back from a Europe trip so the room was just fine for us, it was clean and tended to daily

Ship tip

Don't overpack like we did! Keep it casual

Ports of call

Long Beach (Los Angeles), California

5 out of 5
Easy to navigate and friendly staff

Catalina Island, California

5 out of 5
We are locals so we spent a couple of hours walking around, a fun place to visit

Ensenada, Mexico

5 out of 5
The 10 site excursion was very good - guide / Erick was amazing, funny and showed us very interesting areas in Ensenada. We loved wine tasting and visiting the Old Casino - Riviera I believe it was called.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
We did express disembarkation - fabulous, easy, especially so early in the am!
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5 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     3 months ago

Thanks for sharing

StuPedasso    1 year ago

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Gwbigdog    1 year ago

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javawoody    1 year ago

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cruising2004    1 year ago

Happy birthday to your daughter! Glad you had a wonderful experience. Thanks for sharing.