Cruisin Suzy

Thank you! Looking forward to reading more....we sail in 5 days 😍

Loving your review- 12 days until we sail!

Amazing, thank you! Any chance you have dining room menus or Camp Ocean schedules?

Looking forward to reading those Fun Times and menus. Thanks in advance for sharing!

Thank you for a fabulous review! Glad you had a great time, and sorry to hear about your flying fiasco. Have had more than one experience similar to yours flying in and out of Calgary from Vancouver. Glad you arrive safely!

What a wonderful review! Thank you so much for sharing! Looking forward to reading the rest :)

Thank you for the helpful and positive review! Glad you enjoyed your cruise and I hope the next two you have planned are just as great!

I was on the 2/3 sailing and had a great cruise. The boarding was nice, Captains lounge is much improved over the double-wide trailer out front. It is nicely themed and decorated. There was a short delay prior to calling boarding. This is because CBP demanded the entire crew present inside for inspection of their papers. As I was boarding the entire gang way was filled with crew waiting to go into the immigration area. The upshot was that my stateroom was not ready. No fault of Carnival, but I suspect CBP was acting on a tip and looking for a person of interest among the crew.

 

The ship has everything I like except Guy's burger. It had extras like a Westernized Mongolian Wok and a tasty BBQ joint. The Serenity deck was spacious with 2 tubs and a tiny pool. I had a spa room at the front of the ship with a cool elevator to the spa decks. I enjoyed the spa pool many times. The sauna rooms were nice except for the crusty old fart that yelled at everyone to "close the door."

 

The steakhouse was a dream come true. Perfect from start to finish. A nice display of the steaks and chops when taking the order, close attention to order selections and valuable suggestions. The free $6 bottle of wine was nice on the first night, and they happily sent to bottle to the MDR to enjoy the next night. My steak was well seasoned and cooked to a proper medium rare. The baked potato was hot and steamy and my request to lather it in butter was followed in an artistic manner. The service was as good as it gets anywhere. Attentive wait staff, and chef's timing of the meal showed long experience and a desire to make good food a great time. Even the furniture and lighting was comfortable.

 

Ship excursions are expensive on board. In Cabo I entertained the touts in the harbor and bargained for a quad runner trip along the beach. Less than half the Carnival price, and a private tour for my wife and I. In Matzatlan we went with some folks from the roll call to Stone Island for lunch at Lety's. Thourghly enjoyable company and food. In PV I wanted to see the Rythms of the Night show, but knew the show did not end in time for a timely return to the ship, so I did pay a fortune through Carnival for the trip. The show exceeded my expectations by far and included a decent buffet dinner on the shore. They crew on the catamaran put on a show of their own that was funny and slightly bawdy on the way back that made the 45 minute trip back fly by. We were a half hour late with crew in white outfits tapping their feet and checking their watches as we boarded. Good thing we were on a Carnival excursion and held the ship for us. There were about 150 people.

 

The sea day brunch was wonderful. The small filet they serve just melts in your mouth. I swear they must be bribing the purveyor to get meat of that quality. I was compelled to leave a nice tip for the brunch service.

 

Splendor is slightly wider and shorter than the Miracle it replaces in Long Beach, and I consider it an upgrade. I am sailing her again in September.

 

I tried to watch a dive in move outdoors by the pool. The screen is big enough, but being older the pixels are the size of tennis balls and the colors are nowhere near correct. This could be forgiven except the sound was so bad they showed the film with descriptive subtitles because you could not hear. Not that they had a cheap set of speakers. There were professional line arrays on either side of the screen along with subwoofers just below them. It just sounded like the house band at an amatuer goat roping contest. The pop corn was good, I just wished they used coconut oil to pop it, and had butter available.

 

The public restrooms were bit on the small side, but I did see little people giving high five's for the comfortable accomodations.

 

Every crew member I met was as nice as they could be. The projected genuine smiles, and had an interest in serving. If I was a recruiter, I would certainly work a Carnival ship for good employees.

 

I had a wonderful time on this cruise, and look forward to The Carnival Horizon in April to show me the sights of Europe.

Thanks

 

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Thank you for sharing! Looking forward to seeing the rest hopefully :). Enjoy your cruise!

DETAILS PEOPLE...DETAILS!!! It has been quiet, and had seen nothing on the 1/27 roll call in quite some time. Just waiting here patiently for the 1st reviews to roll in.

My thoughts exactly! Why isn't their first priority post-vacation posting a review for us ;p ?

Great review, can't wait to read more! Thank you for sharing!

Alicia,

I have just spent a few hours enjoying your amazing review and breathtaking photos! We sail on the Fantasy in a month, so am in the middle of getting my CC fix! We have friends from Tampa who sailed on the Dream last fall and really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for sharing so many details in your review and also sharing about yourself! Take care and I look forward to hearing about your next review.

Kiersten