service was not so good

Carnival Splendor Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

amieo1972

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 43

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

Verified Review

8 Night Eastern Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 27, 2017

Ship: Carnival Splendor

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7360

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

The boat is on its last cruise and then its sold!! The dinning room service was extremely poor. The room attendants Luis was awesome!!! The comedians some were very good and some were boring. If you like the trivia-- they did most of it in the lounge and it was way too small so we didn't get to participate.

what is with the short time on shore???? We were on St Kitts and on our excursion our guide said the distance was less than 50 miles--but it took all night to get there??? And Puerto Rico we arrived at 7:45 and we had to be back on board by 1:30 (our excursion booked thru carnival started at 9:30 and ended at 1:30pm--- we were an hour late!!) why so short of time when were only headed to Grand Turk --we were there early!!!

we had an issue back at home while we were on vacation and an emergency happened. Family members called Carnival to get a message to us---NEVER RECEIVED THE MESSAGE!!!!

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

no flavor-- same stuff continuously

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

trivia was in the smallest room of ship and so many people didn't get to participate

Entertainment

3 out of 5

comedians were good ship entertainment was not so good

Service and Staff

1 out of 5

dining room service horrible Cabin service -AWESOME!!

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

5 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

5 out of 5

my favorite island!!! DG GEMS is a great place to get jewelry-- been going there for 9yrs now!!

Thumbs Up 8

Basseterre, St. Kitts

5 out of 5

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5

they don't give you long enough in puerto rico

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Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5

catamaran snorkel and beach was awesome!!

Thumbs Up 5

9 Comments

Cynthe 7 years ago

love this ship

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ctav 7 years ago

This ship has a year before it's transferred to P & O making far from its last leg. I 'll be on this ship in five weeks and I'm looking forward to it.

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Cynthe 7 years ago

Last I read it was moving to P & O cruises sailing out of Australia sometime in late 2019

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heatherd 7 years ago

We are going October 13, 2018 to Hawaii! She will go to California sometime in January. She had plenty of cruises left.

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Wheepers 7 years ago

We are booked to go on the Splendor in feb of 2018. So it's going to be running for a couple more years

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LuxurySeries 7 years ago

I have a cruise in 98 days on the Splendor. It's scheduled to remain in service until 2019

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TNTGreen 7 years ago

Deniseg is correct

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Deniseg 7 years ago

I'm not sure but maybe if you are there longer, the more port fees would be, hence a higher price. Maybe the port authority determines how long you stay.

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JayRCruiser 7 years ago

I have been a Carnival person for all 3 of my cruises...I noticed that the time in port is very limited. Then I discovered royal caribbean and see that we get 13 hours in Aruba and plenty of time in the others compared to carnival. I'm not sure what determines the time in port but at similar islands, RC offers more time in port.

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