Just got off the Carnival Pride yesterday. This was our third cruise with Carnival and while, in my opinion, there is never a bad cruise, this one did have a few disappointments. I will start with the good things first. The food was excellent, Guys Burgers where a highlight, and the crew was top notch. Cannot say enough good things about our dining room servers and cabin steward. The comedy shows were also a must. Very good!
However, that was about the only part of the entertainment we enjoyed. We found Playlist Productions to be very disappointing. We went to the show the first night and the female singers were off key and screetchy. We left thinking "no big deal, we will just enjoy the other shows that don't include them". Boy was I wrong. There were only two nights they didn't perform and those shows consisted of lame game shows where the other guests provided the entertainment. Kind of boring to watch other guests play yatzee. No magicians, hypnotists, jugglers, etc as we had come to expect from our previous cruises. The Taj Mahal theater was empty most nights and the comedy club was turning people away. Carnival needs to re-evauluate this and the cruise director, Steve, and fix this before I would ever cruise this ship again. Also, we experienced a terrible vibration in our cabins on the 7th floor, midship. After returning and doing some research, it seems this has been a long standing problem with the Pride and Carnival is well aware of it. It was so bad, my father had to leave his room and sleep on the deck a couple of nights because he couldn't stand it any longer.
As I said before, any cruise is a good cruise, but sadly, the Pride did not live up to our expectations. Hope you have a wonderful vacation and a better experience aboard the Pride than we did.
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Just got off the Carnival Pride yesterday. This was our third cruise with Carnival and while, in my opinion, there is never a bad cruise, this one did have a few disappointments. I will start with the good things first. The food was excellent, Guys Burgers where a highlight, and the crew was top notch. Cannot say enough good things about our dining room servers and cabin steward. The comedy shows were also a must. Very good!
However, that was about the only part of the entertainment we enjoyed. We found Playlist Productions to be very disappointing. We went to the show the first night and the female singers were off key and screetchy. We left thinking "no big deal, we will just enjoy the other shows that don't include them". Boy was I wrong. There were only two nights they didn't perform and those shows consisted of lame game shows where the other guests provided the entertainment. Kind of boring to watch other guests play yatzee. No magicians, hypnotists, jugglers, etc as we had come to expect from our previous cruises. The Taj Mahal theater was empty most nights and the comedy club was turning people away. Carnival needs to re-evauluate this and the cruise director, Steve, and fix this before I would ever cruise this ship again. Also, we experienced a terrible vibration in our cabins on the 7th floor, midship. After returning and doing some research, it seems this has been a long standing problem with the Pride and Carnival is well aware of it. It was so bad, my father had to leave his room and sleep on the deck a couple of nights because he couldn't stand it any longer.
As I said before, any cruise is a good cruise, but sadly, the Pride did not live up to our expectations. Hope you have a wonderful vacation and a better experience aboard the Pride than we did.