Carnival Fascination

29 May 2019

The whole cruise is labelled as FUN and I must say it was a bit like Butlins on the sea. The things I liked were the service in the restaurant, room service and the bar The rooms were lovely and the attendant was really good fun.entertainment, especially Sean D and Keys McLaughlin, the band was really good too although I cant remember their name. The way the crew dealt with man overboard on the last day was excellent and very professional. The embarkation and disembarkation was excellent and very speedy The didn't likes were the Serenity adult deck was too small and there was no pool just 2 hot tubs. I felt sorry for the entertainment as every time the speaker cut in to their set they had to start again building up their set. I wasn't keen on the silly dancing in the restaurant or the lack of dressing for dinner.

03 Apr 2019

Excellent cruise. Crew multinational and very dedicated to give a high standard. Informal cruising with a couple of elegant nights. Carnival Fascination is an American ship currently based in Puerto Rico,its a party boat with lots going on. The entertainment director worked extremely hard to organise the day to day entertainment and to keep everyone informed about the days activities. Ports visited were good and the ship always tied up in the main cruise ports it visited. No tenders. Small but comfortable staterooms, food excellent and plenty of it.

19 Mar 2019

All in all we really enjoyed our cruise. We were disappointed about the food in the main restaurant and I have already reported this to Carnival. The ports were perfect and shore excursions well done . Travel to and from the Caribbean was good apart from immigration at Atlanta.

25 Nov 2018

Lovely trip staff fantastic food excellent. Cabin had connecting door with NO sound proofing so felt like we were sharing same room. Will not be back!

06 Nov 2018

High points: spotlessly clean. Plentiful food for all tastes. Excellent ports visited and good entertainment. Down side: a bit like Butlins on sea at times (hairy chests contests, bingo, music so loud you can’t hear people trying to speak to you) Compulsory tipping which is not deserved by some of the staff who were ignorant/rude. I’d much prefer to tip directly the people who went above and beyond.

01 Jun 2016

Wow - our first big cruise and we were pleasantly surprised. The stateroom was spacious and clean with a wet area as opposed to a shower. Square large windows and no port holes. The steward was on top of changing the towels and never got in our way. The food was average in the Lido but the the food in the restaurant was superb. All the staff were friendly and extremely helpful. Our only 'complaint' was were the smoking areas allocated. Being an ex smoker I am probably the worst complainer now but in England the smoking laws are not to smoke inside a public area and the areas allocated are usually away from where a non-smoker would want to go, if outside. Obviously American laws are not the same and the smokers were allowed to smoke inside the Stars Bar - albeit in a corner but the corner was right by the band and where a non smoker would want to sit if listening to the band. They were also allowed to smoke in the casino and an area around the Lido. The smell of smoke is not contained to those areas and as soon as you got anywhere near then you could smell the smoke. We wanted to see the band so we put up with it one night and after the night in our cabin, we noticed that the clothes we had been wearing the previous evening smelt of smoke. That was the only thing. We will definitely be travelling on a Carnival ship again though - especially for the Serenity Deck. Thank you.