First Cruise

Item: Carnival Vista
Rating: 4.8
Author: NykoleS

Carnival Vista Cruise Review

NykoleS

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 23

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5

7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 30, 2022

Ship: Carnival Vista

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6467

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

The Vista was the perfect first cruise ship, amazed

Embarkation

5 out of 5

I can not complain about the embarkment. I had all my stuff in order and according to picture time marks, I got in line at 12:22 and was stepping onto the ship at 1:33. Remember we were all told to be there between 12:30 and 3:30 by multiple emails, texts and calls due to the vista being late coming in. If I was to complain it would be on the line cutters and negativity I was surrounded by, by other passengers

Ship experiences

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Cabin was wonderful, definitely not the cabin for anyone who wants to go to sleep before midnight due to the speaker outside the balcony. But once the Havana Bar closed down you didn’t hear a thing

Ship tip

You get what you put into a vacation. Not everything will be perfect all the time. I’m thankful for the issues that did arise on this cruise because it will remind me on future cruises things happen

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Ports of call

George Town, Grand Cayman

3 out of 5

Wasn’t really impressed but do have to remind myself they did just open back up. Remember outside of the port they are in pounds on USD, that was a shell shock lol

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Montego Bay, Jamaica

5 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

Port was amazing and a trip to Mr Sanchos was perfect

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Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

I feel disembarkment went smoothly considering we were late again. Again my only complaint would be the other passengers who didn’t follow what was asked of us

Traveler Photos

11 Comments

NykoleS 2 years ago

Jallaway- do to port stay being only a few hours we decided to shop… I’m hoping next year when we take the same cruise to go ahead and do a excursion.

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Razor78 2 years ago

Im glad you enjoy your cruise vacations... To me this 1st class of vista is the best of the 3 they got I really had a blast in my November 2017 voyage

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337Tray 2 years ago

Thank you for the review and most importantly for having a positive attitude. We have heard the stories about reduced port times and delays in embarkation/debarkation and you refused to sweat the small stuff. I am looking forward to my cruise on the Vista in 16 days even with the knowledge there may be delays. Who cares if top speed is never reached? I don’t!!!

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GoCCL 2 years ago

I would never complain about cruising....but the line cutters, nasty, rude, complaining, don't follow simple rules cruisers....yeh, they're awful.

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Gwbigdog 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.

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MichaelW 2 years ago

Great review and thank you for sharing! Glad you had a great cruise! Happy Sails 🛳

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jallaway 2 years ago

Nice review. What did you end up doing in Cayman?

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robshap 2 years ago

Glad you had fun. Thanks for the review

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AuntPinkie 2 years ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of cruising. Glad you enjoyed your first cruise. Appreciate your feedback.

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robyn1013 2 years ago

Happy you seem to enjoy your 1st cruise. Be careful, they ought to become addicting. Lol

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javawoody 2 years ago

Glad you enjoyed your first cruise

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