New Carnival Website Layout

Carnival changed their website layout today from the easy to use calendar/list layout to a picture/blocks layout with limited filters on the top. I can't seem to find anything and had to call my PVP just to look for a simple date/month combination.

Is it just me or is anyone else not able to search with accuracy? This is a very frustrating experience.

Looks exactly like it's looked for a long time.

Don't understand the "calendar/list layout" and "picture/blocks layout" part of your complaint at all. :confused:

I just discovered it depends on which OS and browser you use. On my Macbook using Firefox everything looks normal after I click on the Pack and Go sale (the calendar or list view).

But on my Windows pc using Firefox the layout is new and really bad (the picture/boxed view). I think eventually Carnival will start using this new layout for all browser/OS combinations if they think it's a hit with customers.

I'm not real happy with new layout either. Not sure why Carnival felt the need to change some things on their home page. Unfortunately, we're stuck with it. At least, until Carnival hires someone else that wants to have a go at redesigning the web page. I'm guessing whoever is in charge of that department never heard the expression "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". :rolleyes:

I've tried using the new screen and it is slow, when I try to use. I don't like it, but that's just me.

Carnival changed their website layout today from the easy to use calendar/list layout to a picture/blocks layout with limited filters on the top. I can't seem to find anything and had to call my PVP just to look for a simple date/month combination.

 

Is it just me or is anyone else not able to search with accuracy? This is a very frustrating experience.

Agree. I hate it. All those boxes make the screen too confusing.

I also had trouble with the new layout! You have to look around the page for the ship you want and then click to find a list of dates! It is more complicated than the old layout!(IMO)

I use Google Chrome and that has been the same search I have had for a few weeks. The beginning is fine, the results are awful. I hate the huge boxy pictures and it makes finding dates harder, etc.

I'm not real happy with new layout either. Not sure why Carnival felt the need to change some things on their home page. Unfortunately, we're stuck with it. At least, until Carnival hires someone else that wants to have a go at redesigning the web page. I'm guessing whoever is in charge of that department never heard the expression "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". :rolleyes:

I agree...leave well enough alone. Also not a fan of the new set up.:(

I guess they felt they had to compete with RCI for trashing a website that once worked fine. The old site still shows in Safari, but errors occur. I got to see the new site when I switched to Chrome. What a pain to use.

If I had to guess, the change is probably an attempt to make it "attractive" on the touch/swipe screens of phones and tablets.

What may happen, and what happened for some RCI searchers, people will go to third-party sites to research what they want in an easier format.

I'm not real happy with new layout either. Not sure why Carnival felt the need to change some things on their home page. Unfortunately, we're stuck with it. At least, until Carnival hires someone else that wants to have a go at redesigning the web page. I'm guessing whoever is in charge of that department never heard the expression "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". :rolleyes:

In Web design, "It" is always 'broke'. If you run a website where nothing in the layout changes for six months or longer, regardless of need/customer satisfaction, etc., you're either a luddite or a trogl.:eek::D

Me too neither. Don't like it.

put me in the HATE it line to

Ditto for me. I just want to see the basic info first and can look for pics after if I so choose. Takes much longer and is a pain.

I actually like it for one reason. I love the ability to click on just a particular month's sailings. I am interested in either Feb. 2017 or May 2017 and with the old way, you had to put Feb. through May in order to get them in one search. With this new method, you can add May 2017 to my Feb search without having to look at March and April sailings.

I actually like it for one reason. I love the ability to click on just a particular month's sailings. I am interested in either Feb. 2017 or May 2017 and with the old way, you had to put Feb. through May in order to get them in one search. With this new method, you can add May 2017 to my Feb search without having to look at March and April sailings.

Never mind...this worked this morning like that but now it didn't. So.....I take back my approval. :)

Hate it too!

I am so frustrated with the new layout. I can't find anything:eek:

Every change makes it harder to use. Go back to the old days of showing the floor plan and highlighting which cabins are available. If you want to get fancy include a color coded chart of the prices. Nothing has ever worked better than that.

I believe the "boxes" are called tiles. Seems to be the design favorite in the next evolutionary phase of web site construction.

Not much difference on iPhone but seems a lot slower.

But I prefer search dates with a "from" and "to" month. That way if you only want to sail in June, 2016 you put that same date for both. If you are flexible with dates you can search for as extended period as you want with 1 search.

I have had it for several days and you can add me to the

HATE IT

list!

Tried to search for a cruise and it was a mess. I ended up going to another travel agent site just to look for a cruise. GEEZ!

I don't like it either. I guess I will have to go to another site to look up a cruise.

I just went and looked and it is exactly the same site for me. I used chrome on both my Samsung phone and Toshiba laptop

Kind of reminds me of your windows 8 desktop, which is fine for your "favorites" but not for a search. They should at least give the option for classic or basic. I noticed in the last couple weeks, this new layout has come up in the different browsers, probably while they were testing to get it up and running.