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We just got off The Pride and I am having some of the same feelings.....this poor old ship is in desperate need of some TLC and CLEANING!! We've sailed The Pride several times and this past trip I was mostly disappointed with the look of everything....we had a Vista Suite on deck 8 and the carpet was worn/frayed...the glass on the balcony was disgusting ( I know the salt water does leave a residue, but this looked like it had not been cleaned for weeks and had green stuff caked on it)...rust everywhere....we got two different notices that they would be cleaning the balconies on port days, they may have sprayed off the balcony, but did not clean that glass at all....

 

But the worst thing I saw....the serenity deck loungers....every single chair pad was stained with what I could only assume was tanning lotion...and they looked gross and some were torn...

 

Cosmetically, she's in tough shape....

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Saturday 12/10/2011 – Sea Day

Today was a relaxing day for us. We had breakfast in the Washington Dining Room and caught the magic seminar afterwards in the Lobby. I got to assist in one of the card tricks, so that was neat. We went to the Lido for lunch and this is where they were having the chocolate buffet. I wasn’t thrilled with what they had. It was one of the moments where you wanted a piece of chocolate cake, but they didn’t have just that. They had the more gourmet cakes. They did have a chocolate fondue, however!

 

We had our last dinner on the ship and said our goodbyes to Wilbur, Roy and Marija. We participated in the Gender Showdown in the Ivanhoe Theater and of course the girls won! I will let my husband tell you how we won, because he was sitting in the audience while I was making an ass out of myself on stage :p We stayed for the Big Screen Trivia (they played theme songs and you had to guess what movies they were from) and Beat the Game Show Host. We ended the night playing slots in the casino and listening to Robert again on guitar.

 

Sunday 12/11/2011 – Debarkation

We docked in POM around 6:30am. We picked to do the self-assist debarking (we carry off our own luggage) and I tell you that’s the way to go. If you want them to take your luggage, you’re called by zones and could be waiting a long time. We left our room to grab breakfast around 8:00am and we were off the ship by 8:30am waiting to go through customs. I think that we waited about twenty minutes to get through the line.

 

We did witness an unfortunate event while waiting in line. There was a couple in front of us waiting for customs. The woman had a blue bag that she dropped from about a foot off the ground and it started leaking. There were two bottles of alcohol in there. The bottle of tequila broke and started leaking. I tell you it was STRONG because I got a headache within a few minutes from the smell lol. The man was not happy at all. She was trying to apologize and you could tell he was furious. I'll let my husband go into further detail about this incident :eek:

 

We got to the airport and we got put on standby for the earlier flight (10:45am) back to Newark. Regardless if we got on or not, our bags were going on the earlier flight. It turns out that we didn’t get on, so we were taking our normal one at 1:10pm. If I could send my bags on an earlier flight every time, I would absolutely do it. When we get to Newark, we went to the QOH desk and picked up the bags without having to wait at the baggage claim.

 

We can't wait to cruise with Carnival again next year :D We'll need to beat our record of two ships on a stick and eight medals!

I was also in that same line with the SPILL!!! I was with my son and his wife and sister in law!!! We were behind the couple that offered their drinking water bottles to help!! I agree the smell was very strong!!! Also we had number one zone for getting on the ship!!! Great cruise!!