First Cruise and now we are hooked!!!

Carnival Vista Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 22

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
Carnival Vista

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 10, 2018

Ship: Carnival Vista

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8435

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Our first cruise ever an now we are hooked! have 4 more booked in the next 2 yrs. The Vista is a very large ship so it seemed the staff to guest ratio is off and that left us waiting a lot. The ship is beautiful and the Balcony room we had was wonderful. Our room steward was very sweet. The chefs table was a very elaborate experience. The steak house is a must!!!! It is super hard to get any loungers near the pool due to chair hogs. Overall we had a fantastic time.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
We had FTTF

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

The steak house is a must!!!!

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

4 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5

La Romana, Dominican Republic

5 out of 5
We purchased day passes to Dreams Resort and it was so worth it!!!

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5
We booked an excursion through Curacao ATV & Buggy it was the greatest excursion we went on and so worth it check them out!!! 5 Star! http://www.atvbuggytours.com/toursandprices

Oranjestad, Aruba

4 out of 5
The water here is gorgeous. We booked a snorkel excursion through the ship. It was a nice excursion but the water was really to rough that day for snorkeling.

Disembarkation

3 out of 5
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4 Comments

cruisereckoning    4 years ago

Thanks for the review.

DFromATX    6 years ago

Wow! You are starting off with a bang! Are your future cruises on the Vista or did you mix it up a bit? You might get burnout. (But I hope not!)

aharbison66    6 years ago

We have 140 days until we're on the Vista!

Kracka    6 years ago

I love the smaller ships, personally! Valor has been my favorite so far.

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