Carnival Magic April 22-29 2017 Review with pics

[Mrs.C05]

So I realized I haven't even done my review of the Carnival Magic we did back in April 2017.

 

Going back and looking at my previous reviews, I see photobucket is making you pay $400 which is absolutely ridiculous, to allow 3rd party hosting :mad:.

 

I could do my review from my phone and upload photos which will allow me to do so, but from my phone may take a good while.

 

Bare with me while I figure out which site to upload photos to and get them on here. Right now I have Google photos so I may just use that if I can figure out how/if it'll post here.

[Mrs.C05]

deleting..........photo not posting

Edited July 9, 2017 by Mrs.C05
photo not posting

[reerun25]

There is a test forum that you can post to, to try out and see if you can get the photos to show up

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=225

[reerun25]

Try the following. In Google Photos, right click on the image, then select Open image in new tab, then go to the tab, right click on the image and select copy image address. Then go to your post, and select the insert image icon, and in the box paste the link, and then add ?.jpg to the end.

 

As much as I love Google Photos, I hate they don't make it easy to share photos on forums.

[Mrs.C05]

photo still not posting.....*sigh*

[Mrs.C05]

Try the following. In Google Photos, right click on the image, then select Open image in new tab, then go to the tab, right click on the image and select copy image address. Then go to your post, and select the insert image icon, and in the box paste the link, and then add ?.jpg to the end.

 

As much as I love Google Photos, I hate they don't make it easy to share photos on forums.

 

Thank you so much! I wonder if it'll give me a size limit or not. For now I have it working.....

[Mrs.C05]

Carnival Magic review – April 22-April 29

Ports of Call: Sea Day, Amber Cove, St. Thomas, San Juan, Grand Turk, Sea Day

 

We have finally arrived to our week long cruise!!!! We booked this over a year ago, and initially it was on Carnival Vista, but then changed it to Magic when they refurbished it, and we saved $1k switching it.

 

We grab Ethan from the grandparents house around 9:30am and drive an hour to Port Canaveral. Check in was a breeze, although a lot of people were still waiting around for their zone to be called. It took less than 15 minutes to go through security, check in, and get on the boat. Once on board we headed to the room to drop of luggage and then grab lunch. Our room is a balcony room, 7405, and it’s in a perfect location. Not far from the elevators, but in between floors so we aren’t hearing performances, music, etc.

[Mrs.C05]

We went up to Cucina del Capitano and tried it out but I was not impressed. We all ordered Alfredo pasta, but Tommy and Ethan got the sausage, and I got the grilled chicken. I had a lot of dried out or chewy chicken pieces. Gross!!!! Not sure if we’ll go again. After that we walked around the ship, checking out the Lido deck, the WaterWorks area, SkyCourse,etc. On one of our sea days I hope to get to do the SkyCourse.

 

Maybe if/when Ethan’s in Camp Ocean we can try it together. After relaxing in the room, I went to sign Ethan up for Camp Ocean. At his age (5yo), he’s in the Penguins,but they said if he wanted to try out the 6-8yr olds, he could. We’ll have to see how he likes each one.

 

We just finished up with the Muster drill and I must say that the cruise director “Dr. E” is flipping awesome and hilarious!!!!

I have no doubts he’ll keep us entertained.

 

 

Edited July 9, 2017 by Mrs.C05

[Mrs.C05]

The pig and anchor bbq joint was open select days at the worse times in my opinion.

 

The shops opened a little after 6pm, and Ethan wanted the back pack he saw in the window so we got it for him. After that we grabbed dinner in the Northern Lights dining room for dinner. They do have the American Table so no tablecloths. For apps, I had the shrimp cocktail, Tommy had the Caesar salad, and for entrees I had the grilled chicken and veggies and Tommy had the sweet and sour shrimp w/ fried rice. Ethan had the smoked chicken quesadilla for dinner (no app) which was really good. All the food was really good though. Dessert was chocolate ice cream for the boys and I had the WCMC and vanilla ice cream. Sorry no food pics. We headed back to the room to chill out, and I ended the night doing my Pilates workout. Good night everyone!!!!

Side note: There was mention on CC of this ship in particular rock and rolling (not using it’s thrusters), but I haven’t found that to be true. It’s not rocking any worse than any other 25+ ships we’ve been on.

[reerun25]

Thank you so much! I wonder if it'll give me a size limit or not. For now I have it working.....

 

You are very welcome, always glad to help, but especially since I am sailing this same itinerary in June 2018! Looking forward to your review!

[Mrs.C05]

My all time favorite pic of my and DH

[Sjb0704]

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[Mrs.C05]

Day 1: Sea Day 1

We wake up to room service being delivered at 7:30am and then eventually getting out to the Lido Deck for omelets. Today is pretty windy, overcast and just plain yucky! The SkyCourt is not open due to how windy it is.

 

See for yourself.................

 

I’m hoping it’ll open up later today if the winds die down. We take Ethan to Camp Ocean, which he is surprisingly excited for because they’re letting him try out the Stingrays group. Once we check him in, we go scope out the gym which is not busy at all. Tommy and I change and go workout for 30 minutes which is just in time to see about lunch. Before grabbing lunch I check on Ethan. Giving him the choice, he wants to come with us, so we grab lunch(hot dogs for them and Mongolian Wok for me). Guys Burger, Mongolian Wok and the Lido Marketplace quickly have lines formed before they even open.

 

After lunch we go see what’s going on at Red Frog, which thehave karaoke happening, so we played a little foose ball before we came back tothe room for relaxing and naps. I got my workout done while the boys napped.

Ethan has been begging to go to the “Water Park” as he calls it, so once he’s up we’ll go check that out, now that the sun is out.

 

Dinner is at MDR tonight and it’s formal night so we get pictures taken beforehand. (We never made it to the WaterPark today, but we will in Amber Cove…..)

 

 

 

Dinner, we had shrimp cocktails, and Tommy also had fried Oysters. Entrees were spaghetti carbonara for me and Tommy paid for the steak, which was $20. After dinner we took Ethan to Camp Ocean and we hit the casino for a bit. We picked him up at 8:30 and called it a night.

[cainlr]

Following along. Great review so far.

[Mrs.C05]

Day 2: Amber Cove

Pulling in to Amber Cove.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We arrive to Amber Cove at 9am on the nose and get off withno problems. Our original plan was to grab a taxi to the Brugal Store which wasabout a 20 min taxi, but they wanted to charge for a full day which was $60.Sorry not happening. We headed back towards the pool, and hopped in for alittle bit. It was overcast so we justhung around the pool for a little bit and swam.

[Mrs.C05]

 

 

 

 

We were hungry for lunch so we decided to head back to the ship, and Ethan wanted to grab a bike peddler dude, so we do. We waited for Guys Burger (Tommy and Ethan) and Blue Iguana (burrito for me) to open, and ate lunch. After lunch we headed to the Water Park and played for a bit. I went down the slides too, but the lines in the slides hurt my back so I only did it once.It was fun but the lines where the slides are bolted together were a little hard on the back. To a kids it’s probably nothing.

 

Once done at the slides, we changed and took naps. We left port while we were napping. Dinner at the MDR doesn’t sound so great, so grabbed dinner at the Red Frog Pub instead. Food there was pretty good actually. We ordered the grouper fingers, wings and sliders. Each of those were $3.33. They started Karaoke just as we were leaving. Camp Ocean opened at 7pm so we dropped Ethan off and saw the Craps table was brutal. We didn’t stay long so we checked out the formal pics.

We’re back in the room watching a movie until we go getEthan. Tonight’s movie in Camp Ocean is Finding Dory and popcorn. We picked upEthan at 10pm from Camp and then went to bed.

[oncruisecontrol]

Very nice start to your review. Looking forward to more.

[riclop]

Thanks for the review.

[watermelonqueen99]

Great review so far! The Magic is very special to us, love reading other people's opinion of her. :) And yes, Dr. E is absolutely fantastic!

[easyboy]

Very nice photos! Glad you did it!

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[Marywillowhill]

thanks for your review! what a lovely family, we will be on this ship with different ports in December! I am looking forward to more!

[navybaby1113]

Enjoying your review so far!

[Florings]

Loving your review so far!

[Bernardo62]

Went to the room and watch a movie...... Hmmmmmmmm TMI.............

[Mrs.C05]

Thanks everyone! I'm posting more tonight about St. Thomas.