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Carnival Splendor Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 41

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Carnival Splendor

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 08, 2015

Ship: Carnival Splendor

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 1332

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

The ship was nice enough.  We found ourselves trying to find things to do everyday to occupy our time.  They didn't have may activities available.  We were very disappointed in that.  There was trivia, but the games and shows were non-existent. There was comedy at the Punchliner and that's about it. The staff was amazing as usual.  The food was pretty good. We are fans of Carnival, just was not very fond of this particular cruise.  Hopefully the cruise director will have more to do on sea days as well as day the ship docks. Carnival is cutting back on perks offered to  VIP program members and that is very disappointing.  You would think they would do whatever it takes to keep return customers.  We usually have a coupon book for gold members, not anymore.  Makes you want to consider cruising another line with a better program for return customers.  We have cruised many times and Carnival has been our cruise line of choice not sure if we will continue being loyal Carnival customers.  Staff is great, I  just feel like they don't really want to take care of the return customers.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
I Wish the cruise director had more for us to do.

Entertainment

1 out of 5
Not enough activities available. Plenty of comedy and that was about it.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Super clean. Was not the prettiest ship in their fleet.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
The cabin was always clean. You get so spoiled with the level of service the steward provides. Our steward knew our names immediately. Love the experience.

Ship tip

The taste bar is amazing! My husband loves Pizza Pirate. I tried the burger and it was so freaking delicious. I'm not a huge beef eater, but I found myself going back a couple of times.

Ports of call

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

5 out of 5
When you get off the ship walk through the gate towards the city. Make a left go on the other side of the wall, there is a very nice free beach there. There is local food, drinks, and souvenirs there. There are free beach chairs as well. Note: Looks sketchy, but it was safe. Save yourself $40 pp for a taxi and walk 10 minutes to the beach.

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

5 out of 5
Beautiful! We rented scooters and toured the island. Go to Meghans Beach. Don't know if I'm spelling it correctly, but it is amazing!

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5
Full of wonderful history. We had a great tour guide. As soon as you go through the terminal there are plenty of tour buses for you to choose from.

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5
We love this island. We rented scooters and it took about an hour or so to go around the entire island. It is worth the rental. If you want something other than Margaritaville, go down the beach there are a couple of restaurants there with great priced food and drinks. Much better than Margaritaville I believe. We found a little tent where the guy was selling 2 for $5 rum punch.
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4 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     4 months ago

Thanks for sharing

celem    8 years ago

See photo at link below. Is ths the beach that Kimberly01 refers to??

https://flic.kr/p/FwuXLA

nanalynn    8 years ago

Just returned from cruise on Splendor!!! Loved it!!! Love Carnival! Food was great! Service was commendable! Felt like they went out of their way to make EVERYONE feel special!

cruiser1972    8 years ago

I felt the same about my last cruise on the Glory. Lack of anything to do except for the comedy club. You could really tell they had cut back and the food wasn't really good either.

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