Carnival Fantasy November 17-22, 2018 Review

[cruisewithwife]

Since we were not scheduled to be into Mobile til 11 o'clock we were able to get up get dressed and get everything organized and then head off to breakfast.  We went to the main dining room here is the menu

The oldest tried the parfait

I tried the broken egg sandwich which was pretty good

We had some eggs benedict

I tried the breakfast board cuz it sounded interesting.  I probably would not get this again but the meat was pretty good on it

The little one had some pancakes

Also some french toast for the big one

DW tried the avocado toast which she thought was good

[cruisewithwife]

We went back to our room to grab our carry-on bags and headed up to lido to relax.  Had to get a few pics in the room before heading out.

Upstairs on lido waiting as we are still pulling into Mobile

It was chilly so we had to get some hot chocolate.

[cruisewithwife]

We went down to the lounge as we were getting close and with FTTF we were some of the first people to get off.  Their process was a disaster they told us sit here and wait then random people started getting off and they never came back to get our area so we had to just jump in line.  Needless to say again things did not seem very organized on this ship and many of the workers didn't seem as happy as other ships that we had been on.  We made it off and found a porter which is always a good idea.  He grabbed our bags and got us up to the express lane for customs which that was super easy in Mobile no questions asked what so ever.  He took us out which we found the shuttle for the hotel we had used and were headed back to our car.  Overall it was a fun cruise as always but the trip was not over yet it was Thanksgiving and we were spending the night in Mobile

[wesorbeth]

Mobile was great when we embarked but awful for disembarkation.  We did not get off the ship until almost 10 and we were not the last.

[cruisewithwife]

27 minutes ago, wesorbeth said:

Mobile was great when we embarked but awful for disembarkation.  We did not get off the ship until almost 10 and we were not the last.

Yes I would agree getting on was very smooth just seemed like they were not very organized

[cruisewithwife]

We got back to the hotel where we had done the park and stay.  Again this was very smooth and I highly recommend it.  We were staying at the Drury Inn tonight which is one of our favorite hotels because of the drinks and kickback meal each night included.  We went over to our hotel and got checked in no problem.  There was some cruisers waiting in the lobby as they were delayed since we had got in late so they were excited to hear the ship was back.  When we packed we made an overnight bag so we didn't have to carry much in.  After getting everything setup we decided to go exploring...it was Thanksgiving day so wasn't sure what would all be open.  There was a gator trail/park thingy that we went to check out first.  We didn't see any gators though.

Next up we went to a nice park that had a bunch of open areas that was close to a shopping area.  The kids had fun running around here for a while.

 

[cruisewithwife]

There was a Bass Pro Shop there and was open so we decided to walk around in there.  The girls started by checking out the fish.  Grandpa found some good Black Friday shopping deals on cold weather gear...who would have thought you had to go south to find deals. 

After the fish we headed over to Santa's wonderland inside

There was very few people in the store so the girls had the whole area to themselves

Then we went to see Santa which there was no line amazing

After they talked to Santa it was back to check out the fish for a bit and then on to our next destination

[cruisewithwife]

We went to the Battleship Musuem.  We are not sure if it was because it was the holiday or because it was getting closer to closing but we did not have to pay anything to get into the general area.  We were too late to purchase tickets to go on the big battleship so we just walked around the area and looked at things.

It is very cool how you can get right up and touch the vehicles and they have information about them posted

[cruisewithwife]

This is a picture of the battleship you can purchase a ticket to walk around on.  This thing was huge....we were trying to decide how it compared to the cruise ship

[cruisewithwife]

After that we headed back to the hotel as it was almost kickback time.  For those of you who have never been to a Drury each adult gets 3 alcoholic beverages, they have a soda fountain machine, a popcorn maker and then serve food as well.  Tonight's menu included nachos, baked potatoes, salad, chicken tenders, broccoli cheese soup, hot dogs, and some penne pasta with pesto alfredo.  It was all very good so we enjoyed our food and then sat down in the lobby area enjoying drinks and played pinochle.  We played for a while and then decided it was bed time as tomorrow we would drive back to Houston.

[cruisewithwife]

We got up in the morning and had a great breakfast as always at Drury.  The drive wasn't too bad...the one exciting part is there is a bridge that goes for like 26 miles that you go over in Louisiana.  We stopped for lunch in Louisiana at a place called Fezzo's.  We tried a sampler which had some boudin balls, fish bites, hushpuppies, and a few other things.  The boudin balls and the fish bites were very good.

 

I had a shrimp po boy which was very good the bread was perfect

The oldest had a corn dog

DW had like a club po boy which she said was very good

Before getting in the car the girls had to get a picture with a gator

[cruisewithwife]

We were almost home and decided we would stop at a Christmas light display which is about 20 minutes from our house.  This family won the Christmas Light Fight tv show the year before so we thought we would check it out and we were not disappointed.  They didn't even have everything put up yet due to the weather and it still looked great.

[cruisewithwife]

They had pathways made with little street signs for each themed area

[cruisewithwife]

Moving over to the other section which comes with a bunch of custom made items

They made this reindeer sleigh set and it is huge

This was one of the new features a Polar Express train

[cruisewithwife]

We finished up with the lights and on our way home made a quick phone call to our favorite pizza and pasta place to pickup. We made it home to enjoy a nice meal outside relaxing while sitting around the fire.  

[rnr4thatsme]

Did you find there was much motion on this ship?  I've read elsewhere they felt there was more motion on the Fantasy than other ships they'd been on in the past.