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Item: Carnival Vista
Rating: 4
Author: lrutledge

Carnival Vista Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

lrutledge

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 4

Helpful Votes: 62

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

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8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 17, 2017

Ship: Carnival Vista

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 1438

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

I enjoyed my time on the carnival vista. I think the activities (outside of the casino and the club) could have been extended because there was not much do to after 11:00 am.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

The pizza station could have been coordinated better. The pizza staff would wait for all the pizzas to be passed out before prepping, and cooking extra pizza. This caused the wait to be really, really long. I would have liked the lunch restaurants to have been opened longer. The seafood shack was really bad.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

The activities could have been longer. Outside of the casino, and the club-Everything shuts down by 11:00am

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

On all the carnival ships I have been on the supervision of the children on this ship was not good at all-which was unfortunate.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

I thought the ship was nice, and very clean. I was not as happy with the design-not as much as I thought I would have been. The lay out was a bit confusing, even the carnival team had a hard time giving directions.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

It was awesome, and our steward was amazing.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5

We had the best beach day!!

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La Romana, Dominican Republic

3 out of 5

Willemstad, Curacao

1 out of 5

We did not stop here due to weather, but they did give us an 80.00 spa credit.

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Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5

By far this was one of my favorite ports EVER!

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3 Comments

floaton 7 years ago

I agree with you with the entertainment part it should go a little bit later but I guess that's the carnival way for them to get the people into the Casino

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cbcruisin 7 years ago

The ship has a completely different layout than all the other classes of Carnival ships! It will take a day or 2 to get use to. That being said, she is a beautiful vessel. We never experienced "nothing to do". Food, entertainment, cabin all top notch!

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tracylavonne 7 years ago

We are doing carnival vista sept 23. Very excited. Any advice.

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