Have you cruised on the Carnival Paradise, or plan to in the future? If so, we'd love to hear about your experience or when you are booked! And what do you think the theme of this ship is?? If you are considering booking in the future, be sure to check out our episode where we test out 1 star reviews on this ship! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mgjJIApKIEY.html
It's my home ship. I live in Clearwater. I go on it about 6 times a year. I did not know that the steam and sauna were complimentary nor did I know that the coffee place had complimentary danish. Thanks.
@@MichaelSheridanV21 it is nice that you are so close and cruise on it so frequently! We hope you enjoy the steam/sauna rooms and the danishes on your next one :)
@@Explorcation First Time Cruiser - Carnival Cruise Review (Carnival Glory/ Bahamas) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F4SXBFchFb8.html I cruised on the carnival glory
Great video. The theme of the Carnival Paradise is that of Ocean Liners. The Rex, SS United States, Normandie, Michaelangelo are all names to different spaces on the Paradise, those are references to classic ocean liners of the past
I cruised with Carnival over 20 years ago a few times. I was younger then and wanted the newest boats and all the activities. I’m doing the Paradise in October because I don’t think I would enjoy the new ones that are so huge. I purposefully choose this one so I can relax and do as much or as little as I want . Thanks for the tour. I’m getting more excited.
Hi neighbors!! Well, almost! Thanks for the video! You definitely know how to turn lemons into lemonade! 🍋🍋I’m definitely going to book again as I love old ships!
We sailed on the Paradise many years ago and the ship was fun. A massive refurbishment occurred after we sailed. The food was fine. Our only problem was our neighbors across the hallway. Too much alcohol and too loud fighting. Calls to security did not alleviate the problem. We had a "window" room and that was the last time we ever sailed without having a balcony
Sorry to hear about your bad neighbors, but we're glad you enjoyed the cruise otherwise. We normally either go balcony or interior. Sometimes we actually enjoy sleeping in a pitch black windowless room, but we definitely don't spend much time in an interior room other than sleeping.
I always enjoy your cruise tours and reviews. 🙂With my very first cruise last month (Virgin/Valiant Lady) I was hooked on cruising the very first day! Virgin was such a pleasure to sail that I don't think I'll find another cruise line more suitable for me, but I'm open to trying others, for sure. Thank you both for another great video. 🙂
Aww thank you :) We are so glad you enjoyed your first cruising experience. Hopefully we will book on Virgin soon. We will have another cruise experience to share soon (on a different cruiseline) 😀
my wife and i are taking our first cruise in september of this year and we are going on the paradise. your tour is very informative thanks for posting it
Greetings, That was an excellent video of the Paradise, and sailing under the skyway bridge is one of my favorite parts of the cruise. I have some great videos of both day and evenings sailing under the bridge. I have been on her three times since my first cruise on her in January of 2019 and I have a fourth cruise scheduled for September, I live about an hour away from the port so it’s been a great old lady to sail on for nice getaway trips, I have been on other Carnival ships including the Mardi Gras and while I have really enjoyed them, however sometimes I found myself so busy trying to see and do as much as possible on them that I struggled with fear of missing out so I never relaxed as much as I should have, where the Paradise is a great smaller ship for me to unplug, enjoy the music, food, and drinks and meet new friends. And an interesting side note about the ship it was originally built as a non smoking ship and for several years you could not smoke anywhere on the ship Thanks again for a great video of her,
Thanks for watching and sharing about your experiences. Cruising on the Paradise is an easy getaway when you live so close! I understand the fear of missing out, it is hard to do everything on the newer mega ships so we sometimes prefer to sail on the smaller ships. That is interesting to know the ship was originally non-smoking, makes more sense why you can smell the smoke more throughout the ship, since it wasn't designed for there to be any smoking on it.
@@Explorcation If you look on RU-vid for “Carnival Cruise lines Paradise 90’s Promo Video” you will see a twenty minute video about the Paradise and its non smoking ship, it’s really fun to watch and see how cruising was decades ago.
We’re cruising out with our daughter in less than a month on the Carnival Paradise. I was a bit worried that it was too small and old and wouldn’t have enough food, bars, shows and other venues aboard. Compared to the Mardi Gras, I’m sure it’ll be different. However, your honest and thorough review has eased my mind. I think we’ll have a great time on this 4 day cruise. Thank you for sharing. Our next after this will be on the Celebration. Can’t wait!
If you go in with the right expectations (which it sounds like you'll have), we think you'll manage to have yourself a good time! It definitely IS a bit small and old, but it's still got something for (almost) everyone. And if it doesn't have something for you, at least it's only 4 days 😆 Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
You do such a great job of touring the ship. The memories came flooding back. I loved the desserts, so good! Guys burgers and the Blue Igana were one of my favorites. I was wondering if you got ambushed by the camera guys? I would love to see any pictures if you bought some. Great job
Thank you so much :) We did get ambushed by the camera guys. We usually avoid taking any pics on ships but the Carnival photographers caught us a couple of times 😆unfortunately we didn't purchase any.
My only 2 cruise experiences were Alaska and Northern Europe. Neither of those ships were even as nice as this one and a far cry from some others you have presented. But I’m there for the excursions. We did everything we could possible do including kayaking in Alaska and the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. I have tons of memories from those trips but I don’t think I even took photos of the ships.
Maybe it is time to try a Caribbean cruise 😀 On the trips you went on the excursions should be more memorable than that ship, sounds like you made some incredible memories. We do want to cruise to Alaska and visit Iceland some day too.
I'm looking forward to this unique experience in June! I'm wondering if the Rum Bar would be the place to get a classic mojito. I saw the Ting Mojito but prefer the classic. I'm used to getting it at the aft pool bar on other ships. Sometimes the Serenity Bar has it. I would love to know before I go as it if the very first thing I like to do after muster station. I must say that your tour is honestly the most professional and easy to follow tour of any ship I have watched on RU-vid! I'm definitely going to follow your channel.
While I only ordered beers from the Rum Bar, I would certainly think it would be your best best at getting a good Classic Mojito. We certainly would have drank a few cocktails if we had a drink package, but since we didn't on this ship, we just stuck to the cheaper beers. We're really glad you discovered our channel and appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment on our video! Have a great time on the Paradise!
Great video guys! This is the kind of video we are going to make and many more when we take the Carnival Horizon (twice), Valor and Miracle in the next 12 months. Can't wait to get our cruising again. We love it! Cruise vlogging is so much fun to plan out and then go film! Hope you both are doing great and are enjoying the new place to live! Keep in touch. Did you see our Amtrak Station tour with the ice cream shop in it?
Thanks, you've got a fun year of cruising planned 🚢we have been traveling non stop for the past few weeks and haven't been able to watch much. An ice cream shop in an Amtrack station sounds like something I would love though :)
There is no steakhouse, but I read somewhere that there is an option to "upgrade" your main dining room experience to include additional steak options. We did not do this, but may be worth looking into!
That's a great question. We unfortunately didn't see any bucket deals on this ship, although we did remember their being bucket deals on one of our prior Carnival cruises. We will say that the beer prices were quite reasonable compared to other other cruise lines we've sailed on recently.
It doesnt look like there is a real theme. It was probably built before having an overall ship theme was even needed. This definitely missed the race for biggest ship.
Right? We sure couldn't figure out any sort of theme, other than the turquoise eggs everywhere, but it was fun exploring the ship to see what we would find it different areas 😆
