Tag: Carnival

We reached Isle of Pines but the weather is not so good. Very overcast and humid. When the showers do stop the humidity can be felt immediately. Isle of Pines is still a very beautiful place though.

For the first time on all my cruises with Carnival, we noticed that the temporary roof on Lido deck was closed over. Was a good idea considering the weather has been a little bad the last few days. This also means that some activities scheduled to take place in this area will go ahead. i.e Evening Movies (also shown in the pictures below);

Dinner tonight was great. Had something I really enjoyed. Kids seem to have a good evening in Kids club doing the usual activities.

And below is a quick photo of the Pizza Pirate where you get pizza’s. Unfortunately it appears that they have gone from 2 staff members here to only 1 and this causes some significant delays with getting orders processed and also results in some mistakes during very busy periods. Something I pointed out to a officer who is responsible for these functions on the ship.

The rough seas continued all today. The open decks are still closed off today due to the wind and rough seas.

The show tonight was great. It was called Getaway Island and it was very enjoyable.

The show tonight was 80s Pop To The Max from Playlist Productions. The show was very good. Would have to be one of the best shows I have seen on a cruise in a while.

Meanwhile, it’s surprising how much we see people using the internet for facebook and what not. Had 2 people at dinner tonight using social media from phones. Crazy. Why come on a cruise only to remain connected to that sort of stuff, not to mention the price of doing so is expensive in my opinion.

The seas are still rough now 24 hours later. It was so bad today that any open decks got closed off and you couldn’t use them. Also heard lots of conversations of people being very sea sick. You know it’s bad when they put out all the sea sick bags in the various lobbies.

Today is a sea day, and tomorrow is another sea day. We won’t reach Isle of Pines until the 28th of April.

Clocks are going forward an hour tonight.

I had another burger from Guy’s Burger and loved it. Very tasty.

Soon as we left Sydney Harbour the seas seemed to become very rough. We had a swell of about 4 metres. We did however leave on time which was good.

Was surprised to see that the Carnival Internet rates and stuff has changed in a significant way. You can no longer get any sort of pay by hour rate, which I must admit seriously sucks. We only tend to use the internet to pay bills while away, however now you can’t do that and what’s available is very expensive and doesn’t suit our usage/requirements. This is a major negative in my opinion. You can read a bit more about that on the following blog post here.

It was certainly good to be back on board, as our last Carnival Cruise was back in August/September 2015 when we took the same ship (Carnival Spirit) from Singapore to Sydney (post it being in Dry Dock for 2 weeks for updates).

Below is a few images from the day. I wanted to focus on the food (from dinner in this case);

I did manage to also consume a Guys Burger during lunch time after boarding. Something I had been looking forward too prior to the trip for a number of weeks.