Amazing...the people that work on this ship are wonderful, compassionate and totally awesome. They work hard around the clock and their priority is to make their guest happy. Just to name a few Francisco, Lucy, Mark, Omar and many many others.

Carnival Splendor Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 47

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5
Carnival Splendor

8 Night Eastern Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 22, 2017

Ship: Carnival Splendor

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 2230

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

It was an amazing experience which was highlighted by the hard work all of the Carnival employees from the waiters, to the bartenders, room stewards, entertainers, etc. You can tell they are happy with their jobs and they all went out of their way each and everyday to make our experience the best it could be.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Good experience with no issues.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Food and drinks were great. We ate at the buffet occasionally and at the main dining room in the evening. The meals we had in the main dinning room were wonderful and the staff made it a great experience nightly.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Pools, water slide and hot tubs

Entertainment

5 out of 5
88 Keys show, Epic Rock Show, Piano man, DJ'sand various comedians. We thought the performers were very talented and enjoyed the entertainers in the lobby very much as well.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
out room steward Ray and Jenny.....waiters...Francisco, Omar, Mark, and others were outstanding. Lucy one of our bartenders always had a smile on her face and went out of her way to make us feel and home and take good care of us.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
I think it is of older design nut well maintained and it was always very clean.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Ray and Jenny did an excellent job and we were very comfortable with our cabin.

Ship tip

This is our second cruise with Carnival. We find the people, the food, and the entertainment to be above satisfactory.

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

4 out of 5
No excursions at this port.

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

3 out of 5
Felt very bad for the people at this port. They all seemed to be competing to make a living which made me feel a little uncomfortable. The beach was nice.

Basseterre, St. Kitts

5 out of 5
I thought this port was beautiful and the Dolphin Swim excursion was an awesome experience.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

3 out of 5
I think this was based on the fact that it was mainly food and shopping at this port.

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5
Wonderful....stingray experience was great.

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
The disembarkation session and overview were very well covered by MarQ's directions. If I based this experience simply on the disembarkation in Fort Lauderdale it was terrible based on Customs. Customs clearance was not good and and very time consuming. At one point I was afraid we would miss our connecting flight.
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2 Comments

DanDaMan1    7 years ago

Splendor was one of my favorite cruise lines. Thought the pink would get to me, but....

Summerholiday    7 years ago

Great to hear u had a good time yep they work there butts off 18 cruises have not had a bad experience yet have made great friends and seen some amazing places... that's what travel is all about 60 days until we leave Australia for our next adventure 🍹

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