Disney vs Carnival

**MartianCrab** · 07-27-2011, 11:50 PM

I just got back from my second cruise this past Monday. I live in south Florida so we finally took advantage of our close proximity to Miami by taking a Carnival 4 day cruise to Key West & Cozumel. Before this, my only experience in cruising was in 2008 when we went on a Disney cruise from Port Canaveral to Nassau & Castaway Cay. Now I can finally say with confidence what I suspected all along: Disney blows Carnival away. I always thought Carnival was the bottom rung cruise line and, at least for me, this was confirmed. Our recent cruise was OK, but I was constantly wishing I was on a Disney ship. I did enjoy the Key West stop and Cozumel wasn't as bad as Nassau but the lack of a destination like Castaway Cay made the Carnival trip seem so much less. Now I know Carnival offers other cruises with different ports of call but I am also basing my opinion on my fellow passengers. Carnival seems to draw a lot of rude, classless people. Several times there were situations I didn't want my children to be around on the Destiny...this never happened on the Wonder. I also know I'm basing my opinion on a small sample size but I still believe it to be true. I wish Disney operated out of Port Everglades or Miami.

**Chrissy&Tayen** · 07-28-2011, 07:40 AM

my boss just cane back from a carnival crusie and he hated it.. and because that was his first cruise he now says he will never go on another... he HATED it..

**NC_WDW_Daddy** · 07-28-2011, 08:18 AM

Too many long USMC deployments and cruises on USN ships for me to want to go back to sea again.

**RollTideMickey** · 07-28-2011, 01:20 PM

Funny you say this. I have done the 7 day eastern Caribbean cruise on carnival. The destinations were awesome (St. Thomas,Maarten,John and the Bahamas). Now to the ship...the crew was terrible, the only thing I got from the bartender was a drink and a "port que". The ship was not well maintained with kids everywhere in the adult sections. I recently 3 days ago got off of the Disney Dream for the 5 night cruise. The only problem with Disney cruises is I will never go on any other company again lol. Amazing ship, service, food and people!!! I will be back!