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Carnival Vista Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 44

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5
Carnival Vista

8 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 13, 2019

Ship: Carnival Vista

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6281

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

We enjoyed it although we didn't feel 100% . We wanted to see the Vista and glad we did but will stick to the more elegant class of the older boat.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Fast and easy.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
The main dining room was fantastic as always. We had lunch at 3 of the specialty restaurants and all i can say is I'm glad I did lunch and didn't pay for them. The buffet was the buffet.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
My husband did the sky trek and he loved it. I didn't do much of anything cause my allergies was flared up.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Enjoyed all the stage shows and piano bar was very entertaining.

Children's Programs

I didn't have children with me

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Our waiters were wonderful. For dinner we had Ainars and Whyu. And our breakfast crew was great. Leslie had our juices for us as soon as we sat down every morning. We also had a great room steward unfortunately I can't remember his name.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
I didn't like the liquid lounge layout. Taking out the small tables was just stupid. I understand you want to cram as many people in there as possible, but not having anywhere to set a drink is very inconvenient. I didn't have a problem with the cleanliness everything was clean.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
It was clean But felt a lot smaller than on older boat of my last cruise. The mattress was not as comfortable it actually hurt my back. Didn't seem to be as food quality as on the older boat.

Ship tip

Don't stay on deck 6. Kids run up and down the hall all night

Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
We went shopping across from port

Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico

5 out of 5
Loved the port. We went to town and shopped

Belize City, Belize

4 out of 5
I liked the port although it was crowded I enjoyed it

Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras Did not visit port

We didn't get to dock. This was very disappointing to us mo

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
We was off the ship within an hour
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6 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     5 months ago

Thanks for sharing

DFromATX    5 years ago

I see a lot of complaints about the lounge. Maybe one day they will fix that. I’m glad debarkation went smooth and I hope ours will be too when we cruise in July!

lovlyldyk    5 years ago

Good review. Thanks for sharing!

JennyLuLu    5 years ago

Very helpful. Thank you.

lbradley27    5 years ago

Totally agree. Was not impressed with Vista. Too big not cruiser friendly. I've been on 12 cruises and it was very confusing

Squiffy3    5 years ago

Thanks for the review. I agree with most of what you said. Give me the smaller ships. Lol

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