Carnival Fantasy - 5 Night Bahamas - Picture Review

[Beagleluv6107]

Hi Kelly,

You did an amazing job with your review. I loved all the pics.

Thanks for sharing!!!!

[kellyccz]

Come on! We have 1 free bag. The rest are taken with other stowaways!

 

Sweet! :-)

 

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[kellyccz]

Hi Kelly,

You did an amazing job with your review. I loved all the pics.

Thanks for sharing!!!!

 

Thank you!

 

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[oldcowhand]

Kelly......Thanks for a great review......My hubby & I will be on the Fantasy in Dec.......for our 41st anniversary......I think its wonderful that you & your sons are so close.....You must be a good mom. They will have these memories forever.:)

[PathfinderEss]

Thanks for the great review.:)

[MomPic]

Great post!! We leave in 9 days on the Fantasy for a week!!!!! Belated Anniversary trip....can not wait!!

 

 

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[sunshine252]

Thank you for the great review! We are sailing on the Fantasy in July and I have a page on "that site that shall not be named" for the family. May I use one of your beach pics if I give you credit? It's so hard to find good beach pics! LOL

[LUVMYGSDOG]

What a wonderful review, thank you so much for taking the time to write it. It made me miss the Fantasy so very much!

 

I loved your pics of Charleston too. Charleston is such a wonderful place (we were just there last Saturday for the day).

 

I am now looking at Fantasy cruises for April. Don't know how I'm going to wait that long though!

 

 

Kim

[CrusinCyndi]

Hey Kelly...I see you are from Joliet IL....we are in Romeoville...we will be in U114 in October....did you hear much noise from the elevators or people walking by ?

[twinbabies]

My parents were on this same ship!! They were at the meet and greet, I saw a couple of pics of them :) Ted and Debi ;)

 

 

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[kellyccz]

Kelly......Thanks for a great review......My hubby & I will be on the Fantasy in Dec.......for our 41st anniversary......I think its wonderful that you & your sons are so close.....You must be a good mom. They will have these memories forever.:)

 

 

Thank you! You will have a blast I'm sure on your anniversary trip.

[kellyccz]

Thank you for the great review! We are sailing on the Fantasy in July and I have a page on "that site that shall not be named" for the family. May I use one of your beach pics if I give you credit? It's so hard to find good beach pics! LOL

 

Absolutely! Feel free to use any of my pics on "the site that shall not be named" :-)

[kellyccz]

What a wonderful review, thank you so much for taking the time to write it. It made me miss the Fantasy so very much!

 

I loved your pics of Charleston too. Charleston is such a wonderful place (we were just there last Saturday for the day).

 

I am now looking at Fantasy cruises for April. Don't know how I'm going to wait that long though!

 

 

Kim

 

Thank you! I didn't realize how long it would take! My Word document was 30 pages long with the review and picture links and it took awhile to post, given the 6 pic limit per post and 60 seconds between postings rule! But, I was happy to do it. It allowed me to relive that fabulous trip!

[kellyccz]

Hey Kelly...I see you are from Joliet IL....we are in Romeoville...we will be in U114 in October....did you hear much noise from the elevators or people walking by ?

 

Small world! I will be in Romeoville much more often in August, as that's when I start my classes at Lewis University.

 

Your room is right on the other side of where our room was. NO worries at all about elevator noise. I never heard a thing in our cabin. You will never even know an elevator is near you. It is not one of the busy elevator banks - most people were just using the stairs rather than wait for the elevator anyway.

 

Hope you have a fantastic cruise!

[kellyccz]

My parents were on this same ship!! They were at the meet and greet, I saw a couple of pics of them :) Ted and Debi ;)

 

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Ted and Debi were awesome! I kept running into them all over the ship. We emailed a lot too before the sailing in planning our Meet & Greet. Tell them I said hello!

[sunshine252]

Absolutely! Feel free to use any of my pics on "the site that shall not be named" :-)

 

Thank you!

[sunshine252]

Where were you when you took the pic of the beach with the ships in the background? I'm assuming the BC Hilton area? Thanks!

[kellyccz]

Where were you when you took the pic of the beach with the ships in the background? I'm assuming the BC Hilton area? Thanks!

 

Actually, no. We were past that - on our way back to the ship from the fish fry. It was the area right before you walk back around the curve to get back to the area where the straw market was. If I remember correctly, that area before the curve is right before you hit Senor Frogs.

[sunshine252]

Actually, no. We were past that - on our way back to the ship from the fish fry. It was the area right before you walk back around the curve to get back to the area where the straw market was. If I remember correctly, that area before the curve is right before you hit Senor Frogs.

 

Great - I know someone will ask... LOL Thanks again!

[ch27088]

After dinner, it was back to the room to change. We got our last towel animal of the cruise:

 

We had gotten our FTTF tags for our bags, which made us zone 2 for the morning. So we got all of our bags except our carry-ons and set them outside the cabin (for our zone, we had to have them outside our door by 11 p.m.). Then we went out to enjoy what we could of the ship for the rest of the evening. I hit the casino and ended up cashing out with $36. Just enough for the cab & tip back to the hotel for the next morning (with $6 leftover). We went to bed about 2am.

 

Day 8 – Disembarkation Day – Friday, June 14, 2013

 

Had our wake-up call for 5:30 a.m. and coffee with croissants and guava jelly came at 5:35 a.m. I wanted to enjoy the balcony one last time with my coffee (added the croissants for kicks). We headed up to the Celebration Dining Room for breakfast at around 7 a.m. where I had Belgian waffles with blueberries, corned beef hash, hash browns, and orange juice. After eating, we headed back to the cabin and gathered up the last of our stuff. We said goodbye to Rolando who we would miss very much and headed to the library at 8 a.m., where we were instructed to meet for FTTF disembarkation. They directed us a few yards away to the disembark line after all the self-assists had cleared off at around 8:10 a.m. or so. We collected our luggage (which we had decorated with some neon orange duct tape for easy identification), breezed through customs, and walked right out to where the cabs were waiting. We got a cab immediately and were taken back to our hotel where we loaded our luggage back into our vehicle and were on the road headed home by 9:00 a.m.

 

A couple of final notes:

 

As an ex-cigarette smoker, I notice the smell very easily and do not like it. Nowhere on the ship, including the casino, did I ever feel it was smoky. I rarely noticed it at all.

 

I do use an e-cigarette and used it everywhere on the ship (except at the dinner table), including the casino, and never had anyone say a word to me about it.

 

I do enjoy cigars and brought a small humidor with a few cigars to enjoy with my bottle of wine I brought on board with me. I smoked them only on my balcony. I purposely booked the suite I did as it was the second to the last one to the end of the row of suites. I only had one cabin behind me and did that to avoid having my cigar smoke possibly bother any neighbors. My neighbors never said a word to me, although I only saw them maybe once or twice on their balcony. I watched the smoke though and when we were moving the wind carried the smoke away too fast for it to really get to their balcony. Also, to our left the balcony divider was solid – there were no holes of any kind so that if that neighbor had been smoking, we never would have known it as there was no avenue for it to get to our balcony. It appears every second balcony had that solid divider and the alternating ones were the kind with the slits along the sides.

 

I never encountered any rude staff of any kind throughout the cruise. The ship was very clean everywhere.

 

The dining room bar service person was OUTSTANDING. I did not catch her name, but after the first night, she would show up at our table within 2-3 minutes of us sitting down and had my boys’ sodas for them – Root Beer for one and Sprite for the other. They had the unlimited soda sticker which I bought for them the morning of the second day and she knew what they liked and made sure they had it in hand shortly after they got to the table. The boys were VERY appreciative of that service.

 

If anyone has any questions about anything I did or discussed, or anything I might have left out, please feel free to ask.

 

This was yet again, another outstanding Carnival cruise. My boys are now hooked on cruising too and I see more cruises in their future. I hope I finish school fast – it’s going to be hard to wait 2 years before getting back on a ship!

 

I love Carnival and can’t wait to get back on one of their ships again!

 

Wonderful job on the review. Loved the pictures and how yow were able to do such a wonderful job telling the story with your photos. Thanks!

[kellyccz]

Great - I know someone will ask... LOL Thanks again!

 

No problem!

 

If you look at the pic of the ships - you can see where the curve is and Senor Frogs is right there.

[kellyccz]

Wonderful job on the review. Loved the pictures and how yow were able to do such a wonderful job telling the story with your photos. Thanks!

 

Thank you! That's how I take my pictures. I like to be able to go through the whole vacation and see the "story" of it all. I took a ton of pics, but now looking back, there are so many more pics I wish I had gotten. That seems to always be the case though.

 

I'm just glad everyone is enjoying the review!

[travellink]

Just finished reading your entire review, great job, wonderful pics! What a nice family you have and good luck with your studies. Thanks for sharing:)!

[CrusinCyndi]

Small world! I will be in Romeoville much more often in August, as that's when I start my classes at Lewis University.

 

Your room is right on the other side of where our room was. NO worries at all about elevator noise. I never heard a thing in our cabin. You will never even know an elevator is near you. It is not one of the busy elevator banks - most people were just using the stairs rather than wait for the elevator anyway.

 

Hope you have a fantastic cruise!

 

Thanks for the info....DH and I are smokers and I chose that cabin as it's the last in the row of suites and any smoke should blow back and not bother the other balcony cabins, and so I was concerned about the traffic and or noise being near the elevators. I appreciate your information, enjoyed your review and wish you luck in your studies!

[kellyccz]

Just finished reading your entire review, great job, wonderful pics! What a nice family you have and good luck with your studies. Thanks for sharing:)!

 

Thank you very much! I consider myself very lucky to have the family I do. :-)