Carnival Spirit review from EseaCruising.com customer.
The cabins are very Spacious, Clean
& Comfortable. The bathrooms are very well laid out with a lot of
storage. The Cabins also have a lot of Storage, Housekeeping are very
friendly and non intrusive.
The Food: I had the pleasure of
attending the Chefs Table Dinner, there is a maximum of 2 per cruise with 12
per seating. Well worth doing. Starts with a tour of the galley,
and tasting of canapes which the Head Chef is trialling, you also get to meet
the Head Pastry Chef who takes you thru a demonstration of how to make their
Signature Dessert, the Chocolate Melting Cake. You then are accompanied
to a Private Dining Room, where you sit down to a 10 course Meal with
accompanying Wines, in all this time you have the Head Chef at your complete disposal,
who is very engaging and informative about food and Carnival.
Cost $75.00 per head and needs to be
booked before your cruise by contacting Carnival via Email.
We dined at the Nouveau Restaurant
which was also top class, but the Empire Restaurant was also very good, great
service, entertainment & food. The only bit of advice I would give
here is if a large group (8 or more) are travelling together and wish to dine
together, then they need to book there preferred dining time before they leave
home, or make sure that they rock up to anytime dining on the first &
second night together so they set a precedence to dining together and then
would get the same table every night if they wished.
Upstairs Buffet great for Breakfast
and Lunch, great chinese buffet at lunch as well as made to order sandwiches
and rolls, sweets buffet,buffet of the day(mexican, italian, french etc changes
daily). The buffet upstairs only has a couple of possies open for dinner,
they try to encourage everyone to eat in the empire restaurant for dinner.
Entertainment:-
Different to P&O, heard a lot of
comparisons, but good entertainment, floorshows (3 inhouse Productions) were
very good. Fly in singers etc also very good, lots of comedy.
In Summary:
This large Ship which never
seemed crowded, lots of seating area's, lots of deck chairs, lots of outside
tables, very good duty free shopping, brilliant prices on duty free alcohol,
lots of variety. Lifts were very fast and easy to use, worked as efficiently as
a hotel on land, I know on my previous P&O cruises you would normally end
up using the stairs as not enough lifts and very slow. Laundry facilities
great, easy to use.
Our score 9 out of 10.
Thanks to Maree for this post
19 March 2013
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