Imagination Owners Suite

[Sonny Crockett]

Got the call and after some discussion I took the upgrade.

 

What should I expect, not expect

 

Any tips

 

Any feedback info for future folks who may wanto upgrade

[KPfromCT]

Cannot help you with your question, but I just wanted to comment that I LOVE your screen name. HUGE Miami Vice fan, here!!!:D:D

[tcwoah]

[nybumpkin]

Congratulations! We had the Owner's Suite on Fantasy, so if your experience is like ours you will have someone escort you aboard (we entered through the crew entry) and up to your cabin to show you around. It's a wonderful experience - I'm glad we took the upgrade. A couple of cautions, though. You are under the running/walking deck. It wasn't often, but one morning we did hear a runner overhead. Also, the Owner's Suite is not on your cabin steward's "regular" route. Our steward was great, but some of our service had to be worked around the cabins on Deck 11 that were on his schedule. You won't see him out in the hallway - he/she will be a deck below. And do take note of the windows overlooking the Lido deck - they're somewhat opaque but folks on Lido deck do have a view into your cabin.;)

[Cruznjuly]

We toured it last year... it is AMAZING! You will LOVE it!!!

[Sonny Crockett]

It was awesome I highly recommend if you get the chance and have the upgrade bucks.

 

I had a casino budget that I used rather than give it away slowly the 3 nights. So I mostly plunked quarters into the push machine and won 4 shirts and a hat, plus about 10 cocktail tokens. It pacified my competitive edge and killed the time normally spent in a ships casino.

 

But I had in the past got hot at the tables and won enough to pay for that entire cruise and cash in other won chips for another cruise while on that cruise.

 

Firstly the room was huge, yes it is a bit outdated, but it in my case it added to the charm. Especially the pink bath tub surrounded by black marble with white highlights. I filled it up, had a couple of beers turned on the jets and imagined I was a dealer expecting Crockett and Tubbs to bust in at any second.

 

Check in was sooth as possible and fast, fast, fast. We cruised with another couple who had an interior cabin and the AWESOME CARNIVAL STAFF let them skip all the lines and get the VIP experience with us. They come get you, walk you through past all the lines, up the companies elevator and onto the ship.

 

So we get to the dock and they direct us to the VIP lounge for check-in. We were treated like royalty. We got our Platnum passes, even if you don't have the points they temporarily upgrade you for that cruise. They ask us to wait until the first call which will be for us and the folks in PH-2 only. But we left to hang out with my nephew and his GF so we miss the first call.

 

We eventually see folks going aboard so we head back to the VIP lounge. The AWESOME CARNIVAL STAFF instantly recognize us and get our personnel escort and we head up. As we are walking to the ship we waive to my nephew and his GF an d the escort asks if they are with us, I say yes and she says they can be escorted in with you if you like.

 

Of course we say yes and she escorts the 4 of us into the ship. We head up to level 12 and instantly our escort apologizes as our bags are not waiting for us and she says she will check right away to see where they are. And mind you this is about 11:45AM and they started allowing people aboard about 11:20AM.

 

So we head back down and get our drink stickers and get a cocktail/beer and walk around the ship. About 12:30PM we head back up to the suite and our bags are there. No more than 2 minutes after we get into our room we get a knock and we get a fruit basket and a bottle of bubbly, nice touch I thought.

 

The dinners were fine, but the chef's table was awesome. I hoghly recommend it, we are not foodies so maybe it seemed a luxury to us where others may not. But our entire group thourgly enjoyed it. 4 of the folks who were in our group had done the chefs table in the past and claimed this was the best. One mother and her older daughter said they had done well over 10 chefs tables on other Carnival and RC cruises and this was the best experience. After 2.5 hours multiple courses we were stuffed and had to have the desert boxed up and delivered to our room.

 

Everywhere in the ship we got the 1st class treatment. It seemed every Carnival employee knew our name.

 

We got room service for a couple of lunches and it was another perk. Ultra fast service and it seemed every time they dropped off the food, we receive an extra bag of cookies or or fruit plate.

 

I had a conversation with a supervising member of the AWESOME CARNIVAL STAFF after our day in Ensenada. I thanked him for what was an awesome experience. Then at dinner that night, we had a a very expensive, well expensive for the ship, bottle of wine at our table. The head beverage manager stopped by, opened our bottle and did the whole wine snob experience for us.

 

We were asked if we wanted to meet the Captain, but I thanked the manager and passed.

 

The nights were a fine. Yes there was some party noise from the pool area but we were told up front and it was not as bad as I thought. We got a few minutes of the deck chair mob emery noise on 2 nights and only 1 time we heard anybody on the track. I guess being early risers we were awake with the tv on when folks actually hit the track, it's they did at all. We didn't hear anything any other time.

 

We had the sit down breakfast one morning and buffet the other and the food was fine. We had lunch in Ensenada and I highly recommend the famous food truck Tony Bourdain highlighted in one of his shows. I don't eat raw fish, but for my wife, nephew and his GF they were in heaven.

 

I must say Ensenada has changed rodrastically for the good since the last time we were there. Again, I highly recommend getting off the boat walking the streets and eat/have a few cocktails or beers at the local joints. We chose the small mom and pop places over the highly crowded touristy spots. Great food, drinks and especially service. Hit the chocolate shop just off the main drag it is a must stop.

 

We got back to the ship, back to the room and just hung out. The balcony was fine. Who

E cruising you had a nice overlooking view or the ocean, but whil docked or people watching at the pool, the lifeboat did interfere with the view. But the bright side is that if the ship was going down, we could just climb over our balcony and 3 feet below we could crawl into our life boat and never leave the room.

 

I would give the experience a 10++ a must if you get the call. We have already made plans to do a 4 day cruise and get other family to go. After our 9 night RC cruise in August of this year.

 

Again for a "regular" couple like me and my wife who dont go out allot and have been on RC cruise in a top suite in the past, it was an incredible experience that topped that. And again I cannot pump up the AWESOME CARNIVAL STAF enough.

[louanne93]

Glad you enjoyed your cruise! Try the Inspiration. We love the 2.0 upgrades!!

[shortstop95]

So the only way to get these is to get "The call"? We never get the call. :(

[nybumpkin]

Glad you enjoyed the suite, and thanks for coming back to tell us about your experience!