Overall, the cruise is very enjoyable no real issues to speak of we always love enjoying family, cruising with us and we also love Thanksgiving cruises cause we love to cook, clean or host Thanksgiving dinner.
Embarkation
5 out of 5
No real issues to speak of arrived during the 1030 to 11 AM boarding time. Was able to go through the gate agent and security within about 5 to 10 minutes then had to wait about 20 minutes in the waiting area for them to actually start calling boarding zones.
Ship experiences
Food and Dining
5 out of 5
Aiden in the main dining room every night and then various venues for lunch and middle of the day all food was surprisingly good no real issues with any food quality.
Onboard Activities
4 out of 5
Overall, on board activities were great and up to like the normal Carnival standard. The only knock I’ll give is that the hot tubs were lukewarm at best and we tried multiple hot tubs and even the ones in the serenity adults. Only area were just warm.
Service and Staff
5 out of 5
I had no issues with any of the staff. They were all wonderful.
Ship Quality
5 out of 5
Cabin / Stateroom
3 out of 5
The cabinet itself was fine. It was clean. There’s a few things showing a little where but it is a four year-old ship almost. The one thing I will say about this room, though that we had was a junior balcony and you going in it was going to be smaller However, all the research I did it looked like the cabin was supposed to come with a couch and it did not ours is actually shrunk down a little bit and there was no couch for extra seating. I did do my research ahead of time and the junior balconies on the deck above and below both have a couch so I just turned out that the one like I could not find a video for the room that we were in specifically so a little disappointed that the couch was not there
Ship tip
She’s a really big ship. Try to get a cabin in the middle of the ship. Our cabin is in the very back and if you had to go to the front, it was a very long walk.
Debarkation is a little bit more disorganized than embarkation. I will give them a pass because they did say that initially the facial recognition in the terminal was down so they switched to the manual process for checking passports, other than that, though it was OK.
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