I’ve just disembarked a week-long Carnival cruise on a ship that has to be seen to be believed. From a three-hour-long embarkation to my friends being given a full refund because their cabin was so dirty, this trip was full of surprises.
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I’ve cruised with Carnival once before from New York and I had a great time. So when I saw a ship sailing much closer to home, from Portugal to the UK, I thought this would be the perfect chance to give it another go.
This cruise was more than twice the price of my first Carnival cruise so I was a bit nervous about that but as I enjoyed the first one I was hoping I would like this trip just as much. I really just wanted to relax, Carnival do call themselves the Fun Ships after all and over 6 million people per year take a Carnival cruise.
Carnival are often in the news for things like rowdy behaviour, it isn’t uncommon to hear new stories like ‘two dozen people banned from a carnival cruise after a fight broke out’. My friend Tony puts it nicely when he says ‘carnival seems to have more of these incidents than anyone’. That said I know so many people who love Carnival cruises and most say that they’ve never seen any bad behaviour. I wasn’t worried about fights or the ship itself, I knew that it was old by cruise ship standards but I’ve been on plenty of much older ships in the past so I was sure it would be fine.
In reality, the issues we had on this ship weren’t ones that I expected and weren’t even ones I’ve ever experienced before, even on much cheaper cruises.
