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Carnival Valor Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 43

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
Carnival Valor

5 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 30, 2017

Ship: Carnival Valor

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 2284

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

All and all I think it was a fabulous first time experience!!!

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Wonderful! Our check in time was 1200 and we were in line eating on lido deck at 1210!

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
I was disappointed with the food and with some of the service in the main dinning room! We had anytime dinning and found out that they had over booked this dinning room. We ate in there 3 times and each time we waited a minimum of one hour! Not impressed with the menus and the food was just okay but nothing to even take a picture of!

Scarlett's Steakhouse

5 out of 5

Would encourage all to eat here! Service was top line and food was excellent!!!

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Comedy club!!! Loved every second!! Please make sure you get to your show at least an hour before for a good seat and sometimes a seat at all!! The shows fill up fast!!!

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Wonderful!! Please get there at least an hour ahead or you might not get a seat!

Children's Programs

No children an

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Antonio my room steward for 2284!!! He is the best!!! Also Nula in the American bar!!! She is friendly and kind! Also makes the best bloody Mary’s and kiss on the lips you have ever had!!!!

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Perfect! You should get up and go out on deck around 5 am and watch the massive crew cleaning the decks!!! I was so amazed!! It was incredible to watch them clean EVERYTHING from top to bottom!! I was just in awe and wishing they would come to my house!

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
It was the size of a nice hotel room!! The bathroom is small but bigger than I expected!! My husband and I were very comfortable!

Ship tip

I enjoyed the American and dream bar the best!! Did not care for the two bars on lido deck!!

Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

3 out of 5
It’s an industrial port so nothing to really see!

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
It was nice, pretty, and festive!! We spent the day at mr. Sanchos and I would go there again!!! It was just beautiful!!

Progreso (Merida), Mexico

3 out of 5
Port has nothing but the temple at the Mayan Ruins is one of the seven wonders of the world. A must to see!!

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
So smooth!!! Great job carnival and Galveston!!! Our original disembarkation time was 0915 but we were ahead of time and were called down at 0845 and were out of security checks and in our car at 0910!!!
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