Carnival Triumph 10/12-10/17/13

[tkportersat]

Ours was outside this time.

Yes, they do serve lobster on 4 day cruises

Yes, but I am not sure of the limits...if you call them they will tell you. On our 5 day as far as beer goes we were able to only order two 4 packs.

 

I think you will both be happy with those locations...so nice to be right on deck near all the food/drink areas and the pool.

 

Thank you so much for the review! Our Family Triumph cruise is one year away, but I love to gather information. Where was the Muster Drill? Did you have to stand outside or was it an inside, sit down location? Does anyone know if they serve lobster on the 4-day cruises? Also, can you order alcohol from the Bon Voyage department on the shorter cruises?

 

My brother booked a cabin on the same deck you stayed on, I am so happy that you loved it up there. The rest of the family booked on Lido deck, so far we have 28 people going, it is going to be fun, fun, fun!!

[marimojo]

Thank you Neighbor, I live off the Bobtown exit! We always take 7 day cruises, so I am sure this one is going to be way too short, I am thinking about making it a B2B for hubby and myself. The prices sure are good.

 

I appreciate you answering all my questions - final question. Muster was outside, so I am assuming you had to stand - right? I have a disability and standing in one place is really hard for me. If I notify Carnival, then they take care of me during muster -

 

Thanks again.

[Calkacky]

I have heard that, while they are hustling everyone down, there are places for people to go who have disabilities or who might have issues with standing in place or other issues with the "traditional" muster. All you have to do is ask one of them where to go and they will point you in the correct direction. From what I understand, where you go isn't always the same from ship to ship and even within the same ship but different cruises.

[tkportersat]

Hello as well neighbor :) I am new to town so I am still adjusting. I work in downtown Dallas so I see the Bobtown exit coming and going every day!

 

Yeah, with 7 days I get more done. With 5 I just didn't do all I had planned. Which I guess is why I need to get to planning the next one - lol.

 

Yes, we stood the whole time. I have heard that if you have a hard time they will set up something different for you so definitely contact Carnival about that ahead of time. There was one lady having a hard time and they let her go early. It wouldn't have been too bad had there not been so many people late to the party :mad:

 

Thank you Neighbor, I live off the Bobtown exit! We always take 7 day cruises, so I am sure this one is going to be way too short, I am thinking about making it a B2B for hubby and myself. The prices sure are good.

 

I appreciate you answering all my questions - final question. Muster was outside, so I am assuming you had to stand - right? I have a disability and standing in one place is really hard for me. If I notify Carnival, then they take care of me during muster -

 

Thanks again.

[marimojo]

Thanks Kerry, I appreciate you letting me know about the Muster. I'll inform Carnival early and then they will put me with the rest of the people with disabilities. I am traveling with my nephew, who is in a wheelchair, so the two of us can stay together.

 

Guess what? I work downtown too - in the Chase Tower! Small world, isn't it? I love Rockwall, I cross the bridge nearly every weekend for shopping. I heard that Rockwall was the fastest growing county in Texas. Everything seems so new there. I am a transplant from NJ, but have been in Texas a long time.

[jburk]

Thanks Kerry, I appreciate you letting me know about the Muster. I'll inform Carnival early and then they will put me with the rest of the people with disabilities. I am traveling with my nephew, who is in a wheelchair, so the two of us can stay together.

 

Guess what? I work downtown too - in the Chase Tower! Small world, isn't it? I love Rockwall, I cross the bridge nearly every weekend for shopping. I heard that Rockwall was the fastest growing county in Texas. Everything seems so new there. I am a transplant from NJ, but have been in Texas a long time.

 

I cruised on the triumph with my grandma. She used a cane due to recent surgery. For muster we just found a crew member and they instructed us to go to a lounge. She was able to sit the whole time. You should not have a problem. Happy sailing!

[misstopgun]

My husband uses a walker and on our Triumph cruise they sent us into a lounge. This isn't unusual as they do that on most ships. What was nice this time was they released those with disabilities first, which allowed them to get to the elevators before the masses ran them over. I thought that was great planning on their part and wondered why it isn't done for all muster drills on all ships.

[ahaltom2007]

We have not been on since the 2.0 upgrades. I was reading some other ship reviews that there were no longer Funship Specials on embarkation day. Was that factual? Also is there breakfast in MDR on sea days?

 

Thanks in advance...

[tkportersat]

The drink of the day? I didn't get any this time but they were walking around with trays of them before embarkation.

 

They have the Punchliner brunch but I believe they made the time early enough now to have breakfast too.

 

We have not been on since the 2.0 upgrades. I was reading some other ship reviews that there were no longer Funship Specials on embarkation day. Was that factual? Also is there breakfast in MDR on sea days?

 

Thanks in advance...

[Kriswinegar]

We have only sailed Disney which is top of the line. We have booked a 4 day on Triumph in Jan. our anniversary gift to ourselves with no kids. I have a few questions since it looks as though you were in the same room.

 

Was there a fridge? We're the tvs a flat panel or an older model? We're the carpets and bed new as part of the remodel?

 

Thanks

 

Kw

[Naomi John]

We have not been on since the 2.0 upgrades. I was reading some other ship reviews that there were no longer Funship Specials on embarkation day. Was that factual? Also is there breakfast in MDR on sea days?

 

Thanks in advance...

 

They still serve the special, just not in the souvenir glass.

[dane225]

Have fun! The ship looks really great.

 

Great to hear!! We have been on the Triumph a couple of times and loved it! Looking forward to the upgrades!

[tkportersat]

Loved the location of this room, hope you do too.

No fridge

Older model tv

I didn't notice room carpet if it was new, definitely is in a lot of the public areas. Never noticed stains or bad smells though. Ship was very clean.

 

We have only sailed Disney which is top of the line. We have booked a 4 day on Triumph in Jan. our anniversary gift to ourselves with no kids. I have a few questions since it looks as though you were in the same room.

 

Was there a fridge? We're the tvs a flat panel or an older model? We're the carpets and bed new as part of the remodel?

 

Thanks

 

Kw

[tkportersat]

Hope you like it as much as we did!

 

Great to hear!! We have been on the Triumph a couple of times and loved it! Looking forward to the upgrades!

[MellowJello]

We will be in 1067 for our first cruise in 10 days! SO happy to see that it seems like a good room!

[tkportersat]

Yes!! loved the location. Right outside the room is the door to the outside deck 10. There are chairs to lay our right there by the pool/hot tub. We never used the public restrooms, we would just go back to the room because we were so close. My parents smoke, so they would run back to their balcony and have a cigarette then come back. I hope you are as happy there as we were.

 

We will be in 1067 for our first cruise in 10 days! SO happy to see that it seems like a good room!

[rob6465]

Carnival Triumph 10/12-10/17

This was my Platinum cruise (10th, grandfathered). Traveling was Me (41), Husband (32) and my parents both 62. We were in Cabin 1065 and my parents in 1067, balconies on the Panorama deck. About the cabin…LOVED it!! The location was absolutely perfect. You walk right out the door by our rooms and you are on deck. Both sea days we found four chairs right as you walk out of the door and we could go back and forth to our cabin to go to the bathroom, grab something, etc. Short walk down from that area and your right on the lido deck. We also were lucky that we had adjoining balconies and within the first few hours our steward Henry got the partition opened. So nice to sit every day and visit with our family.

Parking: We drove in from Dallas that morning and arrived at EZ cruise parking about 10:30 and were on a shuttle to the terminal within minutes. My parents bought FTTF so we all jumped in the priority line and were all on board and in our cabins by 11:27am…by noon we were already eating a Guy’s burger (yum!!) and drinking a beer from the Red Frog.

Tip: When sailing out of Galveston you can order buckets of beer for $15 + tax vs. $22 + tax if you order them before muster. We bought three this way and took them to the cabin.

Muster: This took longer than usually because people don’t listen. People strolling by with cell phones and drinks in their hands made the rest of us have to wait a little longer. If this was the old days of bringing the life jacket with you I would have clubbed some of them as they walked by :eek:

Ports:

Progreso – We did the Jaguar Truck excursion purchased through Carnival. First you go to the end of the pier to meet with your group. After you are gathered you hop on a bus for about 40 minutes. Bus has a bathroom but was not air conditioned. It did cool off once the bus got moving and natural air circulated (sorry just had read some reviews that there was AC and there was not, fyi). First stop you ride tandem bikes for about a mile, all flat land to Ocambo (sp?) ruins. Climbed the ruins on our own for about 30 minutes. Loaded back on to the buses to head to our secluded beach, for the bus ride everyone was given a protein bar to eat. Once at the beach Everyone is given a chair and you can take it down to the beach area, you hang out there while waiting for the guides to bring out the paddles boards. They give instruction and you can take turns trying them out. Seems us girls had an easier time balancing then the big burly men. It was fun but exhausting!! Afterwards they brought us fresh pineapple as our snack. When everyone was done we headed back over to the bus area where they fed us Cheese quesadillas and chicken fajitas. Clean up and 35 minute ride back to the port area. We had about 20 minutes to shop before having to board. The guides Eduardo and Benjamin were so nice and funny and tried really hard to get the group doing fun activities on the bus. I think our group needed tequila as most seemed pretty shy.

Cozumel – Here we booked the all inclusive at Nachi Cocum, directly through their website. It is $55pp. We just wanted to eat, drink and be lazy this day and we definitely succeeded. Way too much tequila! Joseph was a great waiter and we were never left wanting for anything. The food was delicious and the drinks were good.

The ship: The Triumph as a great ship and looked really nice and clean. I was very pleasantly surprised with everything. Yes it is confusing to navigate at times but we always figured it out.

Food: I will add this disclaimer…This is the first time in 14 cruises that I have NOT one time gone to the Buffet. We loved the Blue Iguana for breakfast tacos and I also tried it once on one of the sea days for lunch. Guy’s burgers were also so good, we did this twice for lunch as well. On Port days we just had room service delivered and it was always on time and mostly accurate. One time they forgot cream but we were so close to lido I just ran down and grabbed some…no biggie. Dining room food was all good, the only issue was when I ordered the Chateaubriand the waiter wanted me to have rare and I told him well and he brought me rare anyways. Waste of time for him as I did send him back for a more done piece of meat and after I got what I wanted it was delicious!! My favorite dessert is normally the Bitter and Blanc but I have to say their Tiramisu was the best for me this time. I had the best lobster ever this trip too, very tender. Really no complaints about the food, I was happy with everything I had.

Shows: The only thing we went to were the Comedy shows and both comedians were really funny and it was quite easy to get a seat after the longgggggggggg lines on the Magic last year so that was a pleasant surprise.

Gambling: Casino and bingo were a total bust for us but we had fun anyways. For the first time I accumulated enough points to get free drinks in the casino on the last day. I must have done a good job at this because I felt awful during debarkation and wished I hadn’t had that one last drink! Couldn’t even drag myself to one last breakfast L

Kids: Maybe I was more aware of others this trip as we didn’t have our 3 year old with us this time and all I can say is wow. I saw little children running about with no supervision. The mothers club bringing all their babies and toddlers into the hot tub. At one point this 6 year old girl kept running into the hot tub and this couple was like, how old are you?…”6”, Where’s your parents? “my mom is down there laying in chair”., go tell your mom that some guy is talking to you “ok, she then would run down tell her mom and come back”. Can you go on the slide “I will have to ask my mom”. Comes back again. This went on for at least 30 minutes and the mom never came to check on her. Look, I get that vacationing isn’t easy with children but if you aren’t going to continue to parent them then don’t bring them!! And again, small children should not be in the freaking hot tub. Ugh. Ok rant over, sorry.

In closing we had the best time, best weather and great service. Met some really nice people and have wonderful memories. The Triumph is in great shape and the 2.0 additions are fantastic.

Any questions, let me know..I am sure between all the drinks I left out some details. Cheers!

 

Wife and I have always cruised 7 days but i've always felt drained by 6th day. Did 5 day go too fast? How was progreso?

Edited December 19, 2013 by rob6465

[tkportersat]

Yes, the 5 day felt too fast for me....Mainly because the last couple we have taken were 7. There are things I wanted to do and just ran out of days. I would do it again if that is all I could take (in this case we did a shorter trip because we left our 3 year old at home). Otherwise we will go back to the 7 day.

 

We did the Jaguar Truck excursion in Progreso and it was a nice variety of activities. Have you been to Progreso before?

 

Wife and I have always cruised 7 days but i've always felt drained by 6th day. Did 5 day go too fast? How was progreso?

[lukeduke07]

:eek:I heard they make you poop in plastic bags on the triumph

[rob6465]

Yes, the 5 day felt too fast for me....Mainly because the last couple we have taken were 7. There are things I wanted to do and just ran out of days. I would do it again if that is all I could take (in this case we did a shorter trip because we left our 3 year old at home). Otherwise we will go back to the 7 day.

 

We did the Jaguar Truck excursion in Progreso and it was a nice variety of activities. Have you been to Progreso before?

 

Never been to progreso. Loved cozumel

 

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[tkportersat]

Thankfully not our trip, but I did have friends on that sailing. :eek:

Was nice and clean in October, we had a blast.

 

:eek:I heard they make you poop in plastic bags on the triumph

[tkportersat]

Progreso is not as developed or touristy. The water not as blue. Some hate it....I will admit there are times I have stayed on the ship in Progreso. I tried to embrace it this time and the Jaguar excursion was a nice option. I think they also have a Cenote one that looks really nice and if we go here again I would like to try that. I have been to Corona Beach and that is fun. Or if you just want to stay near the ship there are many stores along the pier to shop at and a couple bars to get cheap drinks.

 

In Cozumel we went to Nachi Cocum. If you are looking for a day to relax, drink and eat well...this place is awesome.

 

Never been to progreso. Loved cozumel

 

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Edited December 20, 2013 by tkportersat

[rob6465]

Progreso is not as developed or touristy. The water not as blue. Some hate it....I will admit there are times I have stayed on the ship in Progreso. I tried to embrace it this time and the Jaguar excursion was a nice option. I think they also have a Cenote one that looks really nice and if we go here again I would like to try that. I have been to Corona Beach and that is fun. Or if you just want to stay near the ship there are many stores along the pier to shop at and a couple bars to get cheap drinks.

 

In Cozumel we went to Nachi Cocum. If you are looking for a day to relax, drink and eat well...this place is awesome.

 

Thanks on progreso info. LOVE NACHI. Took everyone in son's wedding party there last year.

 

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[tkportersat]

You are very welcome. If you have any other questions let me know!

Can't wait to get back to Nachi, what a nice day :):cool:

 

Thanks on progreso info. LOVE NACHI. Took everyone in son's wedding party there last year.

 

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