Carnival is FULL of niggers. Pay double and go royal caribian
they are just an overpriced shopping mall on water. You can't escape!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSpQq60-Ls
edit: see comments too, I'll never forget this:
My husband and I met performing on Carnival Cruise ships. We referred to them as WalMart of the Seas. That's basically the clientele. It's the weirdest lifestyle you can imagine. All my most vile human stories come from my five years working for them. I'm still shocked reality tv has not capitalized on the insane amounts of human debaucery that occurs on them, it's unreal. And yes they have a jail. And it's usually right next to the morgue. On longer cruises, which attract older clientele, they have a larger morgue because these old people die on ships ALL the time and they have to store them somewhere until they get back home. I was on a ship where several old people kicked it within the first few days and I saw the captain of the ship who said that if anyone else died they would have to empty the ice cream freezers which eerily played into a joke among the crew that if they were serving ice cream in our dining room for no reason, it meant they needed to stash a body.
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It’s worth experiencing but I probably won’t go on another one. Mostly it was eat, drink, eat, drink, check out some entertainment, eat drink some more. All amenities are extra so plan on spending the cost of your ticket again. ‘All inclusive’ is misleading, you’re constantly being tempted with extras. Yeah shopping mall at sea is about right except you can’t leave when you want, so spend more $. I prefer to rent a condo and a car so I can plan my own excursions on my own timeframe. The “cattle” comment is probably pretty accurate.
Yep, not a fan of the big ocean cruises at all. I don't get the appeal. If I wanted to see a foreign country in the Caribbean, I'd just hit up an all-inclusive resort and go on a few tours. I wouldn't do a villa or vacation rental until I knew the area.
Depends on what you like and where you like to go. If you want to see many ports of call and not have to fly each time then a cruise may be for you. Of course like anything else it's about the money. There are some great deals to the Caribbean and almost anywhere in the world. My last cruise was on Holland America in a presidential suite and there was little left to the imagination right down to a Butler and a 24/7 private chef and private balcony but that said no matter the level you won't be disappointed but that's Holland America. Do your homework because if you don't want older people there are lines that specialize in family's, younger people without kids, basically something for everyone's taste but if you assume every cruise is alike and are looking for some romance with your so, carnival may not be your best choice. Just Joogle and you'll find something to give you a great time. The only caveat I'd mention is if you're looking for a ship with gambling then plan on losing money. Cruise ships aren't as strictly regulated for gambling if at all. Good luck man and have a great time!
Cool, thanks for the input! It would just be me and my woman.
"Day Seven: The hurricane pushed us out to sea. We can't make port." "Day Nine: All the toilets are backed up. This morning I had to shit in a bucket." "Day Thirteen: The crew is searching for a man name Hernandez. They say he may have gone insane and jumped overboard. They found some weird medical carrying case in his stateroom, with broken glass vials in it." "Day Sixteen: Everyone is sick. The ship's doctor doesn't know what it is, but he's got it too." "Day Twenty-one: I think we're all going to die. If you find this notebook, pray for us."
Sounds like something from resident evil
Shit, that sounds as bad as my experiences were. At least I was getting paid!
I’ve been on a few and loved it most bad experiences are with the budget cruise lines(carnival) I’ve been on Norwegian and royal Caribbean. Don’t sail out of Tampa you lose two days at sea and Tampa is gross. Plan an excursion at every stop I always spent as much time as possible in the water diving or snorkeling and when that was done we would take a tour of the island if we had time . Most of the places we toured are shit holes with lazy dirty people but I thought of it like a zoo that had talking animals and had a blast . I’m a jeans and t shirt guy but we dressed up every night and had reservations for the fancy restaurants and had amazing meals that are included in the ticket price so why eat at the buffet Most of the “shows “ after dinner sucked but we got drunk and had fun with it
Take lots of pictures I’ve got pictures of my son at just over 3 years old snorkeling with sea turtles and climbing a Aztec pyramid . Things we I never would have thought we would do but the cruise line gave us a save affordable way to fo it.
Your anecdote makes it sound super fun lol thanks. Yeah I think I'd stay away FROM carnival. An Alaskan cruise actually sounds nice
Clearly you do not own cattle.
I don't get it. I might own cattle later on though lol. Do you mean that it's hard to vacation with cattle at home to take care of?
What I mean is that being subject to the mob by putting yourself on a cruise ship is akin to being one head in a heard of cattle. You are trapped in a pen with a thousand others and you are just a number to whoever is running the show.
They are great for kids. When I was a kid, we went on a few with Carnival. They had awesome programs for kids where you made friends and you were basically hanging out with them until way later than you ever would normally, and you'd have things like 24/7 ice cream and pizza. We caused some trouble and did some stupid shit, like borrowing furniture dollies on extreme wind and sailing on the top of the deck with a towel on the dollie. Some things as kids was great.
But growing up it's mostly a chance to eat a lot of fun and go out on fun excursions like ATVing. They are cool if you're with friends and family as it's basically kind of like an all inclusive resort (minus things like alcohol) that goes to different places, but you're usually not in one place very long.
I went on one when Cuba was open and got to experience the joys of communism with my family who haven't really been to a communist or ex-communist country before, they learned a lot.
It really depends what kind of traveling you like. If you're looking for a vacation where you want to be a glutton, meet some interesting people, do some kind of cheesy/fun social activities, and do some light traveling to places (like staying there for 8 hours), it's not bad. I'd take it over an all inclusive for a week where you're stuck at the same place. And I do like the ocean or gulf late at night, being hundreds of miles away from any source of light pollution and enjoying the sky. But for every really interesting person on a cruise ship there's probably 10 or 20 obese weirdos. And the traveling is really shallow, almost always to resort islands where you do some probably not safe excursion ran by third worlders in a country where you have no legal protections. But if driving ATVs to a remote tequila factory, drinking, then driving back to the ship to eat as much as you want sounds like a good time you will probably enjoy a cruise (if you bring friends or family).
Cuba was cool and it lets you experience why communism sucks ass first hand (you'll almost 100% find people who will open up to you and tell you the truth about the place). Aruba, Grand Cayman, Florida Keys, a few others like that were my favorite. Avoid Dominican Republic, Jamaica, etc.
Bear in mind if you're getting the cheapest rooms you're going to be in the bottom of the boat in a very no frills place with no sunlight, probably in the front or back where it's less stable and rocks more, and the back can be louder.
I really don't get the point of a cruise unless it's to go somewhere you couldn't by staying in a resort. Alaska and Antartica are probably the only two cruises (that I know of) that make some sense to me. Anything in the Med or Caribbean is really pointless imo.
I've been on a few Caribbean "cruises" and in my experience they pretty much sucked! They made us get up at very unreasonable hours and go up on deck and do a bunch of exercises. Then they made us go back and clean our own rooms. Then we could go eat a meal prepared by cooks who seemed to detest our very existence. Sometimes they would wake me up at night and make me go up on deck and stand around in the dark watching for sea monsters, pirates, or who knows what. Sometimes they would drop us off on some deserted island and make us camp out. While we were there they made us walk around in the jungle at night. Sometimes they would make us shoot guns and stuff like that. Sometimes they would take us to a port where it seems that everyone there had a job that had as its main goal to get all of our money as quickly as possible. Yeah, being a young Marine isn't all shits and giggles as the Marine Recruiter may try to tell you!
Lmao that was great
Yeah but did you get laid by some mysterious island princess or just a skanky pork-chop while her hubby was double-dipping in the buffet lounge ?? ...
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