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Carnival Radiance Cruise Review to Mexico

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 24

Overall rating:

4.1 out of 5
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Carnival Radiance

4 Night Catalina & Baja Mexico (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 12, 2024

Ship: Carnival Radiance

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 9219

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 3 months ago

Review summary

Great short cruise in general. The ship looks newly renovated with new designs, but I still like the designs of the other Carnival ships better. Great Showtime musical show. Wish there were more show like it.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Good there an hour and a half earlier than scheduled. Wind up standing out in the sun for an hour waiting to board.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5
The Showtime musical "Summer of '69" was fantastic. Too bad that there was only one night of show throughout the cruise.

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
We had a group of 4 dinning together every evening, and we met some excellent waiters/waitress and also bad one too. We had Table 575 nightly (except for one night when it wasn't available). Our server Archiever from Philippines was excellent, very attentive and always with a smile. We decided to tip him cash individually at the end of our cruise. Another server Ni Komang from Indonesia was also nice and attentive, we felt so comfortable and enjoyable having her as our server. We also decided to tip her individually. Then there was Supatima from Thailand who wasn't really our assigned server, but stepped up to help out her fellow server to serve us in order not to have us waiting too long for our order. She's excellent, nice and smart and attended to details of our orders and preferences. We also tipped her individually. Now lastly our less enjoying experience. One evening when our regular table was taken, and got re-assigned to Table 436. Our server was Joe the Team lead server. He was very impatient and absent minded the whole time. He was impatient in taking orders from all 4 of us, and then missing orders in every serving. This happened multiple times. When we informed him of our missing dishes, he looked puzzled and annoyed, and finally came back with the dishes but with no explanation, no apology, but again rushed away without leaving us forks. This happened for the appetizers, main course, and desert too. His only words are: "What do you want?" All 4 of us weren't comfortable having him. I don't really want to get him into trouble by writing him up this way. But I think someone needs to talk to him. May be he needs help. I was not going to dine there ever again if he's our server again.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
We like it with extra clean towels everyday. Bath and shower was clean.

Ports of call

Long Beach (Los Angeles), California

4 out of 5

Catalina Island, California

4 out of 5

Ensenada, Mexico

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Long walk but continuous moving lines. I like the facial recognition technology, so efficient and no need to check passport again. passport again.
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6 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     1 month ago

Thanks for sharing

Sogmoore     2 months ago

Thanks for sharing

TiffyTaffy     2 months ago

Thanks for the review

javawoody     2 months ago

Appreciate the write up

HeavySeas     2 months ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise experience

cruising2004     2 months ago

Glad you had a wonderful cruise! Thank you for your review.