Carnival Cruises, Triumph, Western Caribbean Reviews

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Good Points: They are cheaper then the others in their industry, but you get what you pay for.

Bad Points: My boyfriend and I just got back from a 7 day cruise on the Carnival Triumph, The Eastern Carribean Cruise. It was the worst experience of my life. I spent a lot of money to travel from California to Miami to go on my one vacation of the year and it was all ruined by Carnival. It was my boyfriends birthday and he was completely let down as well. They cancelled the Bahamas port visit, and didn't tell anyone until we were already on the ship and moving, which was so horrible. They said it was the weather, but they still kept us on the boat the whole time. We had 5 days at sea and only were able to get off the ship two times. The service was the worst I have ever experienced. The people were rude and grumpy. Everything fun to do cost money, and the free activities were repeated, exactly the same. They were soo boring, I would rather of sat in my stateroom, which was dirty, and I had holes in my sheets. They play the movies over and over again instead of having new ones daily, like advertised. The food, oh my, where do I start, the food was just plain disgusting.

General comments: When they told us they were cancelling the Grand Turk port. They offered us $20.00 a person, just like they did with the Bahamas port. Can you believe that, from a $2000.00 dollar cruise, I saw 2 places, and got $40.00 bucks back. All my excursion were cancelled, and it took days to receive my refund. Which still has not posted to my bank account. I won money in the casino, which was great, but no where near compensated for the time, money, efforts, and everything else I put into trying to make this a nice cruise for my boyfriends birthday. I would have been happier staying home. I felt totally freaked out by all the characters they had as well, they would pretty much force you to take pictures with these creepy looking things. So annoying. Someone trying to sell you something everywhere you looked. The sushi was the worst, totally fishy, and pretty much I had the worst vacation of my life. I have cruised Royal Carribean before, and it was a wonderful experience, in fact it was also in hurricane season, Septemeber, and it was an amazing time. The ship was cleaner, the food was soooo wonderful, the service/people working on the boat was wonderful, the activities were amazing ;) If you want to cruise, take Royal Caribbean ;)

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I loved our Carnival Triumph cruise. For the money, you can't beat it! At less than $100 a day, you can't stay in a hotel for that today! I booked this through the www.allaboardcruisescorp.com who are Caribbean Cruise specialists. All Aboard Cruises Corp. beat the cruise lines rate and also gave me a $200 coupon book to use on the ship. These guys know cruises!

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This was my first cruise for our whole family. On Apr.16, 2005 The Carnival Triumph was supposed to leave Miami port at 4:00PM. But instead of leaving the port, there was emergency drill. We didn't know what happened. So we left there as well. I left my chair one minute and immediately realized I didn't take my camera with me so I went back to my chair. MY OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA WAS GONE!!! Also came with bag I had three memory cards and cable and rechargeable battery. I went down to purser info ...

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My family and I just returned from a 7 day Western Caribbean cruise on the Triumph. We had a great time. May I also add that we cruised during Spring Break with many college and High School kids. Never did we ever feel that we wished we chose another week. The ship is large enough that at times you didn't even know it was Spring Break. Being from New York we are used to a fast pace and do not have a lot of patience to wait around for service of any kind. I must say that we were served with a ...

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After 30+ cruises we are disappointed to say that our cruise on the Carnival Triumph was the worst cruise experience that we have had. We booked a "suite" on the ship, an expected a similar experience as on other ships.
Our cabin was filthy. When we first entered the cabin, there was glitter on the heavily stained carpet, there were holes in the walls, the upholstery was heavily stained, the laminate covering the cabinets was torn off, there were bobby pins on the stateroom counter (left over ...

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My wife and I were disappointed in the mediocre level of service on the Carnival Triumph. We had been led to believe that you will be pampered on a cruise. Not on the Carnival Triumph. The cruise director openly begged and coached audiences to give "exceed expectations" ratings on comment cards, but never explained what to do if one had a problem. By the way, the purser informed me the cruise director was not available to speak to me, at any time.

Lines of 15-20 minutes were the norm on sh ...