Carnival Cruises Reviews

The food was good, the shows were great, piano man and violins amazing, overall entertaining around the ship was poor.

Really enjoyed the smaller ship and the age group of the cruise. There was a good variety of choices of dinner in the dining room. Crew was friendly.

Kids and teenagers not supervised. Carnival not enforcing rules about being cover up and on buffet and eating area. Kids running around touching food in line. Only serve bacon 2 or 3 times out of 5. Dessert was limited to 2 or 3 cakes a day.

Poor dinning service.

This was a great experience for a first time cruiser.

Great cruise overall but too many people, had to wait in line for meals every day.

Excellent

This cruise was much better than expected. The cruise staff was exceptional. There were only 2 questionable staff on board; everyone else was quite hospitable. Our port of call included Cozumel and Progresso (Yucatan). My party of five enjoyed the cruise, activities, excursions, and most of all the countries that we visited.

Excellent.

The service by all the staff is amazing. Amazing food at a great value.

We were not expecting this our shortest cruise to be so fulfilling. We won the Love and Marriage challenge. The staging and entertainment on this cruise was phenomonal. Amber fantastic singer and stage performer. The entertainers were ALL top notch and the scenery and special effects TOP NOTCH. Another woman Selma in jewelry sales great personality. Nice speaking to Jogi head of dining. The cruise director we enjoyed very much also. All I can say is for this being our shortest cruise it will definitely by a very fond memory.

This was the best of the best cruise

Enjoyed it. The Chefs Table was one of the best part of the cruise.

Our room was amazing. Karen Rao our agent is the best. Appreciate the OBC we received. Ship is old and needs upgrades as does their selection in dining. However, the steakhouse and chefs table were impeccable. Can't rave enough about them.

not enough entertainment

Was alright the bed could of been better and they could redo the refrigerators

Nothing outstanding good or bad.enjoyable mid level cruise. As expected

No heat in cabins or dining area….no entertainment

The decor was mindnumbingly bad, early 2000s. The maintenance seemed okay, cracks in the plastic sink material, but not much they can do with the color scheme, etc. The staff made up for the ship's age by their constant smiles, great service. The entertainment was also very good, and we loved getting to personally meet two of the groups. I didn't care for the ports of call - the street vendors were obnoxious in both Cabo and Ensenada.

Bedding, food choices needs to be upgraded, but probably won’t happen due to the type of clientele.

We have been always a Royal Caribbean cruiser and this was our first time going on Carnival "Mardi Gras". We were honestly astounded by how incredible the customer service was that we received from ALL the crew members we encountered. The ocean cabin layout was great and spacious. The decor in the room was very understated and tasteful, with blue and beige colors, which we felt very welcoming Carnival ships. The large TV was directly in front of the bed instead of in an awkward position somewhere else in the room. It had a neat Map Channel where you could track the speed of the ship and progress of the cruise, and it also had my wife’s favorite cable channel “Food Network”. There were no power outlets near the bed for my CPAP machine and we want to thank our room service Michael for quickly arranging an extension cable. He was so good, accommodating and extremely polite. He kept our room spick and span. Something that really made our cruise spectacular was food and our cruise director. The food was incredible and was spread out on different decks which is not available in Royal Caribbean for free. We enjoyed the Guy's Burger Joint, Shack Big Chicken, Blue Iguana Cantina, Pig & Anchor and Chibang. Marketplace breakfast buffet and omelet station was great. Marketplace afternoon/dinner buffet was always small spread and lacking food options. The Main Dining Room food was like high-fine dinning experience. All the chefs and managers we spoke were very accommodating to prepare dishes out of the menu, that gave a personal touch and made our hospitality even better. My only two cents on improvement in a wider food spread at Marketplace(afternoon/dinner) and the Entertainment, we felt Royal Caribbean had really good shows. In Mardi Gras our best show was “Vegas Night". Lastly, We had Faster to Fun for priority check-in but we didn’t feel that was honoured and had to go on the regular line while onboarding. Mardi Gras is a Fantastic ship and our overall experience with Carnival was just amazing.