This Poor Ship... Triumph again

[BallFour4]

I'm the OP. I was not on her. I just saw the news and posted.

 

Sorry, was reading one thread and posted on another...

 

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Edited February 2, 2014 by BallFour4

[PAPERBKWRITER]

First off, I am not a Carnival hater. We had a wonderful cruise on the Pride out of Baltimore but I will never cruise on Carnival out of Galveston again.

 

It was not eight minutes it was about an hour. Emergency power came on in about 15 minutes but the only things that had power were the point of sales terminals in the bars. Keep the fools drinking and maybe they wont notice. Carnival handled this poorly. They could have asked people not to smoke in enclosed areas with no ventilation while the power was off but wouldn't. We were at the slot machines with over a hundred dollars in credit when the power went out so we couldn't just leave. When power was finally restored we couldn't transfer the credit to our on board accounts as the servers had crashed. So we had to play. Staff wouldn't or couldn't credit our account manually.

 

All in all a very poor excuse for a cruise. Food was tasteless, beds saggy and hard as a rock, toilet never had enough water to flush properly. We were told nothing could be done because there wasn't enough pressure on deck 8. Had "new" mattresses brought in but they obviously weren't new as they sagged in the middle just like the "old" ones. Entertainment was poor at best with the exception of the band in the casino bar. The casino staff were surly and acted as though they would rather be anywhere else. Couldn't place a wake-up call request. The only good thing to come out of this fiasco was we were able to get off the ship two hours early and get home.

 

This ship should be scrapped. It is as has been previously suggested "snake bit". Some vessels are cursed. This one sure exhibits the symptoms.

 

Guess we won't be meeting on my next Carnival cruise.