Carnival cruise

The NCL cruise out of New Orleans was not that bad. It was fine.

I have taken that Carnival cruise but that was 27 years ago.

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NO lately with Carnival. I haven’t been in years but the wife wants to take the family I have 4 kids. Some people have told me not to go out of NO that the people are making the trips bad

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If you search the board for "carnival" and change the search range from the default of 7 days to the last 2 years with "other options," you'll see why.

We did back in February on a 7 night. We typically cruise on Disney, and the crowd was certainly different, but nothing horrible. I'd sail with them again. But NOLA gets the older boats, so I had more issues with the ship itself than the people. My youngest (5) enjoyed the kids club, but my oldest (9) was bored in it.

Carnival has done a good job of scaling back the ghetto element lately, so don't let that deter you.

ETA: Do some research when picking your cabin location. For the ships out of NOLA, I would recommend being midship or forward on deck 7. We were aft on 8, and had the lido buffet was right above us. It could be noisy occasionally and all the smells in the ship tend to gravitate to the back of the boat I found. Nothing awful, just something I'd do differently in the future.

Its gonna be bad if you go on a 3-5 day one in summer on Carnival. Try a different company or port if you can.

We went on 7 day and it was not bad.

We normally go RC but my 75yr old mother insisted on Carnival. We did Carnival.

Wasnt a big deal on that trip.

Did a 5 day Carnival last year for Easter with the family and in laws. Had the fans popping at the sail away, but after that it wasn’t bad. Went on a 7 day at Mardi Gras this year and no fans popping at the sail away along with no issues at all. Both cruises were out of New Orleans. Like another poster mentioned, the cruise ships are older but have gone to dry dock within the last year. Late next year I believe the Dream comes to New Orleans. This past cruise we had a room on the 11th floor which my wife loved. As we just walked straight out to chairs in the morning and was right next to the splash pad area for our 5 year old. If you had to go to the bathroom you could easily go back to the room rather than the one by Gus Burger.

I booked a Grand Suite for next week on the Liberty. I still enjoy cruises. But I mostly sit on my balcony and chill. 7 day cruises have less bad element. But carnival is the party environment ship.

People get arrested. People die. It's like anywhere.
Then there are people work no shame or modesty. I like cruises because I get a week where I don't have to think about anything. No phone, no email, no customers. Just the ocean.
Now I prefer just flying to Mexico and going to Isla mujeres. But I hadn't been in a cruise in almost 4 years so decided to try it again.