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Carnival Venezia Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 8

Overall rating:

3.6 out of 5
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Carnival Venezia

8 Night Eastern Caribbean (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 18, 2024

Ship: Carnival Venezia

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8258

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 5 months ago

Review summary

Ups & downs for this cruise, but we won’t be booking NY or this ship again. But the food was really good

Embarkation

1 out of 5
Almost 2 hours to board the ship, terminal experience was a complete mess. I will never go out of NY again

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Food was awesome!

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Lacking especially for the 18-20 crowd

Children's Programs

5 out of 5
All of our kids enjoyed it

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
MDR staff, Kumar, was great! Pizza crew, Giri & Jerome, were amazing with my kids. Prakash in Serenity was our favorite!

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
Cleanliness was 5 stars, But the ship’s design was terrible. The pools are way too small for this many people. You can smell the nasty casino smoke through so much of the ship. It is beautiful, but not practical to get from one end to the other

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Very small especially for 4 people. Would have been fine for two or three people, but not enough storage

Ports of call

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

4 out of 5
Ocean World was awesome for our 3 generations

Grand Turk Island

4 out of 5
Duck Boat Tour was fun

Half Moon Cay, Bahamas (Private Island)

3 out of 5
Beautiful island, not nearly enough seats. We had to demand they find a seat for an 80 y/o woman. Can’t use the drink package, but Carnival has no problem charging for them (included on RCCL’s private island) And the free food ends at 1pm, but due to thier stupid tender ticketing system we couldn’t even get to the beach until 12:15.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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7 Comments

bonefixer     1 month ago

Thanks for sharing, we loved the Venezia!

Cruisers4Lyfe     4 months ago

Thanks for sharing

Gwbigdog     5 months ago

Thanks for sharing

karlgrgurich     5 months ago

Glad you know what you like

javawoody     5 months ago

Appreciate your comments

cruising2004     5 months ago

Sorry you had so many pros and cons. Thanks for your review.

HeavySeas     5 months ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise experience

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