Today in Miami I boarded Carnival Cruise Line’s latest ship, Carnival Celebration, for a seven-night cruise to Cozumel, Costa Maya, and Roatán. To share my experiences all through the voyage, I’ll be posting common journey reviews about my time each on the ship and in port.
Embarkation went a lot faster than I believed it could, as a result of we purposely arrived to the terminal sooner than our embarkation time slot. Our time slot was 1:30-2 pm, however we arrived to the port round 12:20 pm, realizing that we’d be put into an early arrivals line that I believed would go slower than if I used to be arriving throughout my designated time-frame.
That was not the case! After entering into the early arrivals line, we mainly didn’t cease strolling the complete manner via the check-in and safety course of. I’d say we have been via the terminal and boarding the ship in about 10 minutes from door to door.
Once onboard, we checked in at our muster station – we didn’t even have to look at a video or something as a part of the muster course of. We simply went to our station and checked in, after which in a while previous to departure they went over what to do in an emergency on the ship-wide PA system.
After that was lunch — and we headed straight for Shaquille O’Neal’s venue Big Chicken. Some hen tenders and fries later, it was time to discover the ship. Not solely was this my first time crusing an Excel-class ship, nevertheless it’s my dad’s first time crusing any Carnival ship ever. So there have been numerous issues to level out to him as we went deck-by-deck seeing what Carnival Celebration has to supply.
At 3 pm, my dad went to the Heroes Tribute Bar (the ship’s navy and veterans-themed sports activities bar) to look at the Bills vs. Bengals soccer recreation and I continued to wander across the ship. I headed to the lido deck for the sail away social gathering which is at all times SO a lot enjoyable on Carnival after which stood out on deck 8 to look at because the ship headed in the direction of PortMiami’s turning basin after which sailed out to sea.
I had a little bit of a mix-up about whether or not I had set-time eating or My Time Dining, so I wound up lacking my fundamental eating room seating by an hour. We ended up within the buffet for dinner, which didn’t have many stations open however what they did have was nice — I’m used to solely feeling so-so about cruise buffets however I used to be pleasantly shocked by the style and high quality of tonight’s dinner there.
This night’s present in the primary theater was a brand new manufacturing created only for Carnival Celebration referred to as Color My World. It options numerous songs about colours (Purple Rain, Blue (Da Ba Dee), and so forth.) and closely options an artwork theme. It was a enjoyable present that was stunning to have a look at, particularly when it got here to the completely different backgrounds displayed on gigantic screens behind the performers. But to me, it didn’t have any actual “wow” issue. It was tune and dance, and it was good, however I prefer to be amazed once I sit down within the theater for a present.
In my three cruises on Carnival to this point (and numerous articles I’ve written up concerning the line), I’ve observed that they simply don’t put as heavy of a concentrate on theater leisure as traces like Norwegian and Royal Caribbean do.
After the present, I got here again to my cabin to complete penning this journey report. It’s nonetheless somewhat early to fall asleep by my common requirements, however I’ve had a couple of full days of touring and enjoyable so I’m trying ahead to a very good evening’s sleep!
Until tomorrow…