Vacation was a let down!

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 22, 2015

Ship: Carnival Splendor

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 7278

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

Let me start off by saying that our cabin steward Erikson was AWESOME and we did love our suite on the ship.  However, I felt that the ship was understaffed for it being Thanksgiving and we had to wait a long time for everything - buffet lines, dinner seating, excursion desk, customer service, etc. One particular experience, we were playing trivia one afternoon and my three year old tripped and fell into the table.  He hit his face against the table and had a bloodied his nose and lip.  We had just ordered a round of drinks and he spilled them all.  After I helped the waiter clean up the mess,  I explained to the bartender what happened she said that it was not Carnival's fault that the drinks were spilled.  I was pretty upset at this comment since I was with my parents and in total our 2 suites were over $6K.  That was not a very good response.  This was our third Carnival Cruise and I've always been very happy with the ships and service, but we were very disappointed in our experience this past vacation.  We live in Florida and cruise quite often.  I'm not sure I will be rushing to go back on another Carnival Cruise in the future with the service that we received.  

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Children's Programs

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
Our cabin steward was AWESOME - everyone else not so much. Dining room staff not great or friendly.

Ship Quality

1 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
The cabin was awesome - large, clean and perfect for our family of 3.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

5 out of 5

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

5 out of 5

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5
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4 Comments

Pineapplet53    8 years ago

@ Alicia, inside cabin; 8329 which was roomy for 2 ppl. I use to do balcony until we rarely used it. My cruise partner and I decided to spend that extra money other places. My friend received a free cruise up to 15 days from the casino. We going April 3rd.

alicia1417    8 years ago

what room did you stay in?

Pineapplet53    8 years ago

Jern730, I'd send headquarters a nice nasty gram about that experience. I. Would have asked for the Manager.

garofalo92    8 years ago

the bartender does not have the ability to issue to give free drinks in thr case where it is not carnivals fault. but if you talked to a member of management. I'm sure they would have given you a refund for the drinks. even though it was technically your fault for the accedent.

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