Below Average Cruise

Mardi Gras Cruise Review

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 3
Helpful Votes: 35

Overall rating:

3.2 out of 5
Mardi Gras

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 11, 2022

Ship: Mardi Gras

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

We had been in 2 cruises prior and then 4 after our Mardi Gras Cruise. We enjoyed the check-in and getting on the ship process. Overall we really disliked our sailing on this ship. We constantly had to fight over space in the elevator and common areas. We hated the layout, it doesn't flow as well as other ships in the fleet. My girlfriend is a religious vegetarian and we had so many issues finding edible food for her. We recently sailed on Celebrity and they took incredible care of her food and made sure she was able to eat items. We personally are triple vaccinated and contracted COVID while on the boat, we didn't know until the last day when we got tested once we got off. Saw in our Facebook group chat that over 1,000 people got it in our sailing. 2 of the water slides were broken on our sailing. Cocktails in the Alchemy Bar are close to $16 which is absolutely insane. The buffet was incredibly tiny for the size of the ship and it honestly tasted terrible. The ChiBang! and Guys burger tasted pretty good. The cruise Director Lee and the Family Feud Shows are pretty awesome. We booked for the Carnival Venezia next on the Ingaural cruise to try carnival again. Grand Turk was beautiful and awesome to swim in front of the ship, amber cove was a huge disappointment for me.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

2 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Inside Cabin - Decent Size and Charging Ports. Felt average. Not amazing and not terrible. Had we known eventually how the cruise was going to go we probably would've booked a different ship or cabin.

Ship tip

Don't book if you have issues with lots of people around you and or uncomfortable with really tight elevators.

Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

5 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

2 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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8 Comments

byhisgrace    1 year ago

Appreciate your feedback

Pheznt55    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing your experience

lsbs    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

javawoody    1 year ago

Appreciate the review

AuntPinkie    1 year ago

Appreciate your feedback. At least you know the ship’s layout before get on the Celebration. Sorry you were disappointed with this cruise.

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

bentisinger    1 year ago

We're thinking about sailing again on this Ship or the Celebration just to see if this was directly a post-covid negative experience in June of 2022.

cruising2004    1 year ago

Sorry the MG was not for you. Hopefully you can find a ship that is comfortable for you in the future.

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