Jelly_Toast

This is a situation I'm potentially going to be dealing with next month. I have no issue just saying my son is a no-show but I'm wondering about his Cheers package. Will that be auto-refunded?

I was on Vista in November. My least favorite ship so far. It's been a few months now so take these comments with that in mind, any of this may have changed. The main dining room service was so slow. Extremely slow. The food was also...okay. There was no showtime during dinner. Not sure if it was this cruise or the ship but I missed it. We skipped the MDR a couple of times in favor of lido and much of it was closed for dinner making the lines so long it was unreal. The absolute worst part for me though was how hot it was everywhere. We had dinner at JiJi's, typically my family's favorite meal of the cruise and we were dripping with sweat. The food there was still amazing (and the highlight of the week) but it was such an uncomfortable evening. I also hated how the Liquid Lounge was set up, I just avoided the shows for much of the cruise because of it. Never again.

I run hotter than my husband. We typically keep the house around 76ish in the summer. I would be more comfortable around 74. I probably am not the best judge of temperature so I will defer to his opinions which were that some spaces were comfortable enough for him, but he also found some areas to be much too warm. Based on your lizard-people status you're likely not going to find yourselves uncomfortable everywhere but I found the entire experience to be vastly different than always bringing along a jacket to most areas on the ship, which is what I typically had to do on previous cruises.

I was on Vista last week. In general, I would have to say I was disappointed in the MDR but to be honest we only went the first two nights. I'm sorry I don't have images of the menus to share. Overall, I found the choices to be lacking, the service to be extremely slow and the temperature in the MDR (and all the public spaces) to be overwhelmingly hot. We never miss sea day brunch but did not go our second sea day because the food was so disappointing. My youngest, whose highlight of the cruise is typically the sea day brunch chocolate cake, said it was stale and tasteless. We ordered the beignets and they were so cold and stale they were left setting at the table when we left. We went to JiJi's on day three (I highly recommend the food, but we were literally dripping in sweat it was so hot in there) and hit the lido for the rest of the cruise. Overall: bleh. Would not cruise Vista again.

Did not work on Vista last week.

I totally agree. Huge waste of paper.

I sailed Mardi Gras in Nov 2022 in a suite and got the same email but our rooms were not ready when we embarked. We were able to leave our bags but the doors were propped open. We alerted our steward that we were leaving items, then went to muster and lunch. When we came back after that they were done.

We discovered this mid-cruise earlier this month on Horizon. We all had the chat plan, but none of us had purchased wifi. I was getting notifications on my iphone from things like my robovac and doorbell cam, which seemed weird but I didn't really think about it much. Then my daughter received a text message from someone back home and that's when we realized we could text each other on imessage as well as anyone back home as well. I can't imagine that Carnival techs aren't working on this as they stand to lose money on the chat app (which does not work near as well as imessage, and I think goes without saying to anyone who has used the chat app).

I have meant to post this for so long but keep forgetting. We cruised Mardi Gras the week after you and I asked for the creamy coconut martini on the very first day. It became our favorite drink of the cruise and every time we were at Alchemy someone asked us what it was. Each day that went by we saw other people with this coconut drink. My son enjoyed the mixology class so much that he turned it into a hobby that he really enjoys. We took a cruise on Horizon earlier this month and it just wasn't the same. I'm looking to book another cruise on Mardi Gras as soon as I can. Thanks again for your great trip report!

Sailed out of Miami last weekend and it was a nightmare. This isn't the first time we have sailed from there, but definitely the worst. Traffic was horrible, at a standstill in many places. The parking garage across from the terminal was full, but there was absolutely no signage alerting people to this. We circled multiple times before we were directed by a man standing in the street to "lot 2" which also had no signage. This was a surface lot that was already jam packed and people were just making up spaces wherever they could fit. There was nothing to indicate that in the last row there was a barrier and the only way to get out was to back up but there was a huge line of cars making this nearly impossible. The lot was filled with very angry people. I feel lucky we were able to find a spot, not sure where we would have gone once that lot was full. The only positive is that this lot was closer to where we disembarked, which was not the same terminal where we left from so we did not have to try to haul our bags into a shuttle and just walked back to the car. I feel incredibly lucky to live close enough to drive to port, but I'm staying away from Miami for a long time.

We had two suites on Mardi Gras in November last year. We were told they would be ready when we embarked but they were not. We were allowed to leave our luggage but that’s all. This was around 10:30 am if I remember correctly.

My family and I were on this cruise. I enjoyed reliving the magic today while pretending to work (first day back is so hard). I saw my son in one of your photos, that was hilarious. Thanks for your great trip report!

Thanks for your review so far. I'm taking notes on all your cocktails, so many are new to me I feel like I will be indulging a bit extra this cruise.

This is extra exciting for me as I’m on Mardi Gras later this month. Now that the hurricane has passed I can finally get excited about cruising again!

The chocolate cake during sea day brunch is one of the best desserts on the cruise.