Vista cruise

Carnival Vista Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 3
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Overall rating:

3.4 out of 5
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Carnival Vista

7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 14, 2019

Ship: Carnival Vista

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8239

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Again, I love cruising. I learned I do not care for Vista class ships

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Went very smoothly

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
First let me say, I love Carnival cruises. However, I am not impressed with the Vista. We are at the main dining room and the buffet and neither were “write home about” quality Now, Guy’s burgers is another story...amazing as always

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Didn’t use these things

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Saw the show Flick and it was okay. Several of the individual acts were amazing! Lefty Lucy was great! John (with guitar) was great! The trip of young women with violins was wonderful! And we loved Tony Ward in the piano bar. We opened and closed every night!

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Agnelo was our room steward and he was great! Our waitstaff in the dining room consisted of Uan, Annie & Joel. We never lacked for anything. They were all wonderful

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
Cleanliness...perfect! Design? I do not like this ship! Some how you have made a huge ship that feels tiny and cramped. We will start at the front in the main lounge where the shows are. It is now only 2 decks high, no comfortable seating, no tables(to hold miscellaneous stuff like bingo cards, etc). There is now a bar inside the lounge that takes up s big part of the room there is but heaven help us if we can’t get a drink in 5 seconds! We went to bingo there the last night because it was for a cruise and there was only about 30 people even in there... There are several little bitty shops onboard that may hold 5 or 6 people and they’re scattered about. One little shop had more expensive jewelry and I never saw anyone in it all week! We had a balcony cabin and closet space and drawer space is less. Balcony space seemed the same.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Beds were comfortable. Closet and drawer space less than on other class ships.

Ship tip

Don’t

Ports of call

Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

4 out of 5
We took an excursion to see sloths, monkeys, birds & iguanas which was very enjoyable. Otherwise I do not care for Honduras

Belize City, Belize

2 out of 5
We tendered off the ship and just did some shopping. Did not do any tours.

Cozumel, Mexico

3 out of 5
Again, Our excursion was fantastic! We did the Tabasco Chef Maestro cooking class with Chef Luis and it was wonderful! Other than that, Cozumel is just ok

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Galveston makes it easy to disembark
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4 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     5 months ago

Thanks for sharing

JDJenkins    5 years ago

I like the beds also usually pretty comfortable!

DebandMarkC    5 years ago

We love ALL the Conquest class ships

joshpaula    5 years ago

We we're not a fan of the Vista layout.

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