Carnival Valor
Carnival Valor Cruise Review
5 Night Western Caribbean (New Orleans Roundtrip)
Sail date: November 23, 2019
Ship: Carnival Valor
Cabin type: Oceanview
Cabin number: 1339
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 4 years ago
Review summary
Bring your own medication. Only one outlet in cabinEmbarkation
Ship experiences
Food and Dining
American Lobby and Atrium Bar
Best place for any drinks on the ship in the evening hours! Thank you ladies.
Pizza Pirate
Not impressed, very thin crust and very little sauce. They didn’t let you add or take away from the menu.
Lincoln Dining Room
Anytime Dine. Food was good not great. Staff was great but the assistant maître d’ is a azz towards the staff and was more of a problem than helping the staff. One of the staff asked him for 2 minutes to finish clearing her tables right before the show. He told her very loud right in front of us to shut up and get ready for the show. She just put her head down and stood there. He then said to her”Do you have a problem? I didn’t think so. Go get ready”. The next day at breakfast, the crew in the Washington dining room set up a table for a group of 10 and right after the table was finished the assistant maître d’ walked up and took every napkin off the table instead of grabbing the ones stored in a cabinet right next to the table. When the family of 10 was brought to the table, the staff had to reset the table while the family stood around the table making the staff look like fools.
Guy's Burger Joint
Never tried them because we were not going to wait 45+ minutes for burgers.
Washington Dining Room
Early and Late Dinner alongside MDR Breakfast. Staff was great, food was good.
Redfrog Pub
Nice place to go to get away from the Cancer bar in the casino.
Room Service
It’s a buffet. Not bad but not great either.
BlueIguana Cantina
Best tasting food on the Lido deck.
Onboard Activities
Cherry on Top
Not very impressed. Almost $4 for a half pound. We watched a lil kid spend $150 on a bag of gummy worms when her mom wasn’t looking. The shop wouldn’t let them return them because she stepped out of the store but didn’t leave the door way. The Mom wasn’t a happy cruiser afterwards.
Pool
Over crowded because lots of chairs were strapped down and locked up on the upper decks. Any events were standing room only to include the Dive in Movies.
Serenity
Not really a good location next to the kids club having half the deck and kids yelling so loud you can hear them on the other side of the ship. It should be moved to the back of the ship with the Adult pool.
Photo Gallery
$21.99 for a 8/10. I don’t think so. Not to mention that you can’t even walk around the area when open because the crowds.
Argonaut Pool
Best place on the ship to get away from the kids running around. we saw the staff asking kids and families to leave the adult areas every day.
Entertainment
Ivanhoe Theater
Only one of the guys had a good voice in the shows.
Carnival Seaside Theater
Standing room only for the Dive in Movies. Lot’s of chairs were strapped down and locked up on the upper deck.
Service and Staff
Ship Quality
Cabin / Stateroom
Ship tip
Get your frozen drinks from the Lobby bar. Just about every other bars mix’s was way to sweet or way to much water mixture in them. Also know what you want to drink before you sail. We wasted 3 days on different drinks because they are never the same. We gave up on the frozen drinks.