mckalesmom

Husband and I both got one. Each of us booked an inside cabin (adjoining) with our kids. 4 of us, 2 cabins, $380 total with $100 total on board credit. Leaving Thursday on the Fantasy. Yay 2 days. This is our first inside, but for the price I am super happy with it.

Yes, stayed in aft ocean view on the elation. I'll find a pic and come back. It's fantasy class, so it should be similar

Thank you!

Jamie Dee

Same

Hi,

On the Fantasy, which dining room will you be assigned to if you are anytime dining? Thanks!

Sail away: There's fishlips!

Some pics I missed in the last post:

Next up: day 2

So we finished lunch and explored the ship a little. It was definitely windy.

Next, we headed to our room, 8318 port side standard balcony.

Next, I went to tour the spa while Matt went to check out the EA sports bar and casino. We completed muster and met by the water slides with our roll call group (from another site that shall not be named). Our cruise director, Jaime, announced we would be departing late due to a medical emergency. I went to the spa raffle at 5 and missed sail away and of course I didn't win. Lol

Pics from sail away will be in the next post because I got an error saying too many pics.

We got ready for dinner and checked in to YTD on deck 5 across from taste bar. No wait, easy peasy. Walked down to deck 3 and was immediately sat at table 431 with John. John was fantastic. I was hungry so no menu or food pics tonight. I got the brisket and the beef and barley soup. Both were delicious. Matt got the fish and I can't remember what else.

That was about it for day 1. We didn't do any events that night.

Oh well bought the social media package to keep in touch with our babysitters and it was well worth it.

I woke up at 5 am and couldn't go back to sleep so I went to the pier to watch the sunrise. Unfortunately, it was really cloudy. I came back around 7 and we spent some time rearranging luggage and getting ready. We had breakfast and went back to the pier for a while, then checked out at 11 am.

After a short drive to the port, we were parked close to the terminal. Check in was painless. We were in zone 7 for boarding and made it on a little after noon.

Guess where we went? Straight to the food! We decided on Guys and it was ok. Not fantastic but a good burger. This would be the only time we ate there.

Then Matt had a few things from the buffet....

And I discovered cake pops. Absolutely heaven. I was in love.

The cake pops will come up again later. Lol. Stay tuned for that.

Be back later to continue day 1.

Hi. I'm Tosha. This is my first review. This is my 3rd Carnival cruise and my 4th cruise total. This is the first Carnival cruise that I have thoroughly enjoyed so I wanted to share my experience. I wasn't overly excited about the cruise due to past experiences, but I decided to go in with the intent to enjoy every moment. Some of the things that made this cruise better: I didn't feel like the only thing to do on this ship was spend money, the food was much better than in the past, the crew was outstanding.

I read the reviews of the layout being terrible and the ship being too crowded. Didn't notice a problem with either. Now if you go to serenity at 10am looking for loungers for multiple people, it's probably not going to happen. The Lido breakfast lines were long, but aren't they always? Just have a little patience and you won't even notice the crowding.

So this is us, Tosha and Matt, celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary.

We drove to Port Canaveral from Mississippi. About 9.5 hours.

We left Saturday morning around 7:45 am central time. Ladies you know when the nails are done, you are officially ready. :)

The drive was uneventful. Traffic was fine. We stopped a lot. We thought this was a funny pic.

We arrived at Days Inn Cocoa Beach around 7pm. We relaxed in the room and then went to Fishlips for dinner. The food was good. Then it was back to the hotel for bed. I don't have a lot of pictures of food. Bummer. I love seeing the pics of food in the reviews but I just love eating too much to stop and take a pic.

The Days Inn was a nice motel. I would stay there again. It's right across from the pier and we got a coupon for 40% off of port parking. Bed was comfortable and it was clean. Breakfast offerings were only cereal, yogurt, oatmeal, and toast but we were about to eat ourselves silly for the next 5 days so we were fine with a light breakfast.

Cocoa beach pier:

Next up is embarkation and Day 1.

Thanks for reading :)

 

I do know, I wish I was on that cruise right now! Not only the OBC & future discount, but I'd be on a cruise RIGHT NOW! ;) Ha ha!

Me too. Me too. Me too.

Hopefully the passengers are enjoying their ship and I would be ecstatic about the compensation given if I was on that ship.

! :D

Why would the Company be responsible for any compensation?

I didn't say they were. Carnival gave them $200 obc and a discount on a future cruise.

If the Magic passenger suddenly is confirmed with ebola lots of tunes will be changing.

This is true

Idk what to tell you hun.

I can see both sides, but I think we are probably more likely to die in a wreck or something than contract Ebola on a cruise. I would definitely still go.

We are booked tomorrow and we are going and we are going to have a great time.

Mine says 2! It says TWO. It says 2!! Yay :D Yay :D 2 days!

Great start. Looking forward to reading the rest of your review.

I'm departing on the Elation Saturday. Would like to see pics from those who just returned but if not I'll bring some back to this thread.

NOLA is a bit of a tertiary port for the cruise lines. As a result, pick the largest and newest ship, sailing the longest cruise and pick the highest category room within your budget.

 

Friends have sailed NCL from NOLA, and were happy in a suite. Carnival Elation for a 4 night cruise pretty much poisoned me against the line.

Hi Barb.

Curious what you didn't like about your Elation cruise?

We are headed out on the Elation Saturday.

We are taking a 5 day cruise on the Elation leaving 10/18. Previously there were no suites available. A few days ago a couple of suites became available. We called and they told us the upgrade would be $1300 (full price). We are currently in an ocean view. The agent told us to call back a couple days before the cruise to see if we could get a deal.

Do they usually give upgrade deals closer to the cruise if anything is left?

I have been watching the same cruise that leaves today and as of yesterday they still had suites available but the price was even higher on the website.

I have never 50% off sale in my dozen or so cruises. To my knowledge the only time they sell a disc is for weddings and Dreams Photography sessions. However, the purchasers of said disc are spending $750-$1,000 for the digital images and print release. We spent nearly $800 for 42 (digital and print) images from our wedding

Thanks for the info. Yeah that is out of my league. We will just have to choose a few pics.

Does Carnival offer a disc of all photos available for purchase?

 

 

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Good question. I'd like to know too

Thanks! Good to know.

She may have been confused because she said she had previously purchased the photos on a prior night for full price and then saw that they were half off on the last night and was disgruntled over missing a deal. But maybe she misunderstood something.

I have only been on 1 Carnival cruise and it was 10 years ago but the photos weren't discounted then either.

I tried to search for this and couldn't find much info.

A coworker recently returned from a Carnival Cruise and she said that all the photos were half off on the last night. Is this a normal sale?

Thanks