thepoetess

Booked this with 3 kids, does anyone know if these rooms have a privacy curtain?

tia

I've seen a ton of cutbacks, everything from once-a-day cleaning to chocolates on the pillows to a change in quality of the food served. I now hold my nose as I'm booking a Carnival cruise. My husband loves the line, so off we go again on Carnival Cut-Back cruise lines.

 

Do they still change the sheets mid-week on a 7-day cruise?

We took a 5 day cruise and I know they didn't change our sheets! My son got chocolate cake all over our sheets, it was awful!!!! Imagine our shock when we went to go to bed and saw that the cabin steward simply hid the dirty areas when he had made the bed. :mad:

We just got back from our cruise with kids ages 12, 4, and 1. We brought along juice pouches, as we figured that would hold up better than the boxes. We had no problems. We also brought along cherrios in a gallon bag, and baby food pouches. No problems bringing it on port either (they have dogs sniffing your stuff), and we told them what we had when they asked.:) hth!

I started cruising at 11 with my parents. We always did Carnival. Over the years (about to be 40) I have noticed a few changes, especially since we (my hubby and kids) just came back from a cruise this month.

- No more midnight buffets, hubby thought they *may* have had 1. Which means no more ice sculptures, etc.

- No more meeting the captain for pictures.

- No more chocolate mints at turn down.

- People don't dress up like they used to for elegant night.

- Sorry to say, but some of the passengers..I had to ask my husband, "why are they even here?" for example, some teens were trying to break into a locked room in the arcade, and one of them was holding a wine bottle.

- No more waiters and busboys getting personal, it was all very business like. We used to take pictures of them, and with them. Very sad.

- I used to love that all the workers were from everywhere around the world. Now it seems they are mostly European, and that they do NOT like serving people. But maybe it's just me.

- If you buy the limitless bubbles package you will quickly notice they no longer have multiple servers through out the ship trying to get you drinks. Nope. Now you have to drag your butt to wait in line at a bar every time you want 1 drink, because they most certainly will not give you 2 at a time.

- Toilet brush is now left in the bathroom, or maybe it was just Truimph..grossed me out.

- Lots of unsupervised kids.

- A family actually brought their kids to the lido buffet in pjs. :rolleyes:

We cruised RC in 2010 with my parents. Since it was a "better" cruise line I expected more, but it seems they offer less, and pride themselves on it too. When asked about where the midnight buffets were, a worker looked their nose down when they replied, "We don't do that here." uh, ok.

But it is what you make of it, and we still had a blast. We have booked a cruise on Vista for 2018, and my parents and brother are going too. I am super excited!:D:hearteyes: