First cruise on Carnival...
Carnival Vista Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern
8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)
Sail date: March 11, 2017
Ship: Carnival Vista
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 6645
Traveled as: Large Group
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
This was our first cruise and we did not know what to expect. We signed up for excursions for everyday we stopped in port, we also did the Spa tour on the first day and signed up for some of the spa treatments.
One of the major turn-offs about the spa was that everything you signed up for there was always an up-sell at the end and a justification as to WHY you needed to buy product. While I understand them making the product avail to us, the persistence and behavior when we turned it down after a massage was rather rude and distasteful. We had already spent close to 2500 in spa products and on the second the last day we had our couples massage and they tried to push more products on us, and when we said no thank you, they got upset and then tried to push another product and even went as far as applying it on my wife saying she needed it. Another way of saying you look like crap. It was a huge turn off, we signed up for the spa stuff to begin with, you dont always need to make another sell, huge turn off... now we know..
Another thing was the fact that there was over 1000+ kids on our cruise, our mistake in not realizing it was Spring Break, but next time will definitely keep that in mind, otherwise we would have brought our own kids.
Overall, it was a great experience, met a lot of good people and interacted with some very interesting people.
Chloe and Abi at the Spa were amazing - Hope to see them again next time.
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Ship tip
Be prepared to take the stairs or wait long times to get from floor to floor. People are lazy and will wait 20 min for an elevator then another 20 min while the elevator stops are every floor on the way to the one you want. Its much easier and healthier to just takes the stairs!!
Ports of call
Bonaire, Netherlands Special Municipality