This was our first "Big cruise ship" cruise. The decor is old and worn but everything on board was clean. Staff were happy and friendly but sometimes hard to understand. The dance shows were fantastic, with something different every night. We especially enjoyed the magician show. We enjoyed dining in the Empire dining room every night. Three course meals with lots of choice. Some meals did come out luke warm instead of hot. They had entertainment scheduled throughout the day and night, something for everyone. We found something to do all day...Read more

This was my first cruise so I didn't know what to expect... I have given it a three star rating for the cabin size, attendant Vijay who was friendly and kept the cabin clean, for the excellent service in the Nouvea and Empire Restaurants. I also loved the 45 min music themed concerts. We sailed from Sydney to New Caledonia return. Overall, I thought that Carnival did a good job of organising events and planning activities but all of the seminars and worth doing activities involved costs. So now for the downer...These costs add up to $$$ over th...Read more

Some of food was very good, but for most of the food you could get better at any Aussie Cafe in a shopping Mall. The food is very average, but at least there's plenty of it.
Pizza - half a teaspoon of cheese and 8 pepperoni slices is Pepperoni Pizza according to Carnival.
Coffee - At the Buffet area is typical American Krap, Burnt, Bitter, Brewed for hours. Just dreadful.
Lemonade - It's NOT Lemonade, it's actually Lemon Flavored Beverage Base Mix, but Carnival use it straight up and call it Lemonade. You just can not Imagine how bad this taste...Read more

so just got off spirit on 23rd May 2022 . Firstly must say if you want to up market cruising and pay as much don't go on Spirit BUT if you want value for money this is the one.
From the start to finish we enjoyed it -the cabins were a nice size and clean and cleaner were always polite and helping ( thank you Gedde and Hope)
The food was fine we tried the liddo buffet and Empire dining and sure the buffet is just that buffet food and heaps of it and if you missed the buffet or got munchies later the pizza bar was great. and open all night also....Read more

Sailed on Carnival Legend November 2018. Booked through my normal Travel Agent (although he did recommend against it) but the price was so much cheaper. Guess like the old saw, "You pay peanuts and you get monkeys". Have previously only sailed with Princess and unfortunately have seen their standards decline in many areas. Embarkation and disembarkation was smooth and unhindered. Was a little shocked when arriving on board with the decor. Certainly dated and in dire need of an upgrade. Food on Lido buffet for lunch would best be described as ...Read more

We booked the cruise from Sydney to Noumea, Lifou, Mystery Island and Maree through cruisesalefinder after reading glowing reviews there. This was my first cruise and what a complete letdown! Apart from the relatively smooth embarking and debarking process, average entertainment and decent cabin size, we did not enjoy our time on this cruise. The food was average with limited choices, limited opening hours in the Lido buffet and small portion size in the main dining room, not to mention it being salty sometimes. We were offered the same fruit e...Read more

Food was repetitive. It was nice, i enjoyed the meals.. it was just very repetitive.
The restaurant had horrible service, flimsy and gross meals and we left for dessert. The dried up cardboard steak with a plain baked potato (no sour cream and other bits) and frozen veggie mix was enough for me to go grab a nice burnt pizza.
I think in a week, I saw 1 pizza that wasn't black.
Entertainment was basically non existent. Trivia a dozen times a day is NOT fun. The casino was the only place to keep occupied unless you wanted to sit by a closed poo...Read more

Booked this cruise carnival legend on Wednesday 26 /02/19 - 03/03/19 from Melbourne to Hobart thru mega cruise .
On arrival everything went smoothly until we got inside the decor was very 80 ‘s
Very dark and dingy .
After booking a balcony room expecting the glass to be clean ( not ) and all the steel having rust on showing was very disturbing.
Balcony doors didn’t seal properly and at night when the wind was blowing the whistling sound was very loud which caused us an uncomfortable night sleep .
The chocolate shop was more expensive than t...Read more

This is my 2nd review of Carnival Cruises in Australia.
We have always except for 1 time booked through a company called clean cruising. If your looking for great service and get information emailed or sent to you with a good breakdown of costs etc. then i recommend Clean Cruising. The 1st time we were looking at a cruise we tried another online mob and the email response we got was " look on line and tell us what you want" The idea of going to a online Cruise specialist is we had no idea where to go or what ship. But i recommend Clean Cruising...Read more

Just got off the boat today. 9 nights from Melbourne to New Caladonia and back to Melbourne. We loved it.
Great food. Great service. Went with our 2 boys who are 2 and 3. They made great friends in camp ocean. We are intending on keeping in touch with them so our boys can continue being mates. This was our first cruise with kids.

Carnival are good to talk to over the phone. Every time I called I spoke with friendly Americans based state side.

We enjoy crusing. Have been on the Carnival Spirit, Holland America, Royal Carribean, Norwegi...Read more