A 4-day Cruise on the Carnival fun-ship Paradise

Advantages: Entertainment, a great opporunity to see a few different places on one holiday
Disadvantages: food limited at night, slow room service, small-ish ship

...I was recently taken on a 4 day Carnival cruise on their Paradise boat, departing from Long Beach, Ca, and visiting Catalina and Ensenada, Mexico. We left Monday evening and returned Friday morning. It was my first experience at cruising. ~ Booking ~ I was taken as a surprise trip, so I was not involved in the booking process and can not comment on it, or on the price paid per person, as I do not know. ~ Parking and Baggage Drop Off ~ When we eventually arrived at the Long Beach ferry terminal (through our own mistake we first went to the San Pedro terminal? whoops!) we easily found parking in a large multi-storey car park and, just as easily, dropped our baggage off with porters. Prior to arrival, we had received luggage tags that we'd filled in our details on. These meant that our baggage would be taken to our rooms, and would...

liz1102 07.08.2006 · Read review
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Crappy Carnival

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: listed in my opinion

...As I filled in my Comment Card, following my recent cruise on the Carnival Spirit, I realised there was not adequate space to list the problems myself and fellow travellers encountered on the ?fun ship?. My complaints and comments are listed below. General Ship Condition. 1. Our cabin balcony was continually covered in soot from the funnels. Nelly, our Cabin stewardess, did her best to keep it clean but still the balcony got sooty. Two garments were soiled by this soot. We paid for the two back cabins for good views of the Panama Canal. This would not have been the case if we had known the soot would be a problem. The problem was also very noticeable on the Fantail Bar and pool area on the ship. 2. Many parts of the wooden deck boards were warped. This created wavy and unevenness on the decks. This was quite a hazard...

billi65 03.08.2002 · Read review
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Carnival Funfair games: Wii

Advantages: Cheap, very fun!
Disadvantages: No good for young children, and it doesn't "progress" much.

...This game is so fun!!! We got it with our Wii when we bought it and we got a little addicted to it!! Its got a variety of games on it which you can play which you find at real carnivals and funfairs! Games such as Coin toss, ball in a bucket, milkbottle tumbe and loads more!! You earn points and unlock prizes and more games as you go (my favourite prize is the G-Raff on the duck hitting game!!!!!!) It can be played by up to 4 players and if you only have one controller it accomodates this!!! As well as been a great game, its cheap too!! The only thing with it, is that some of the games don't last very long, and once you've unlocked the few games extra you can get, the game doesnt progress, but that is the only fault, and as a game to play to pass the time and have a good laugh in the head to head mode, its a great game to have a good...

stephbond89 30.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Carnival Games (Wii)

Carnival funfair games are not so fun after all !!

Advantages: multiplayer but not alot else
Disadvantages: poor grafics, colour and sound

...I love funfair games and had been looking at this game for a long time before my partner decided to buy it for my birthday. On the back of my case it says "Experience all the fun and excitement of the funfair with carnival funfair games" You can create your player from a very limited choice but you can buy more things once you have won some tickets. This is a single or multi player game, with prize mode for single and head to head or competition for multi player. I played the single player game first where you play to win tickets and virtual prizes, the tickets you use in penny pushers or grabbing machines there are a few others too which I won't spoil for you because I found these the best part of the game. As you play the game and win prizes you turn them into bigger prizes this moves you closer to unlocking the extra games...

Crazykurst 22.08.2008 · Read review
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Kenco Pure Brazilian - Great If You Like It Black

Advantages: Quality - Distinctive taste - Ethically Sourced
Disadvantages: Loses its best features when milk and sugar added

...different, a little less ordinary. My eye was drawn to Kenco?s ?Pure? range, which includes offerings from Costa Rica, Brazil and Columbia. I was intrigued by the description given for the Brazilian blend ? ?dark and smokey? ? and, encouraged that the item was actually on offer, decided to take a closer look at the packaging. The product comes in a 100g squared off glass jar (which is not only encouragingly recyclable, but made of at least 35% recycled glass), and the labelling - a fetching dark green and gold with a gold band at top and bottom - looks reassuringly expensive, as it should be for a coffee that normally retails around £3.38 (compare this to £ 2.68 for a similar sized jar of Gold Blend, or £1.39 for 100g of Tesco?s own ?Gold? brand). It also features the Rainforest Alliance (RA) ?Frog? logo, which means that it is made using...

Hishyeness 30.04.2009 · Read review
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Have your own Carnival

Advantages: Like Having your own Carnival
Disadvantages: None

...Carnival Funfair Games is Like having a Mini Carnival on your wii. The Game Contains Many of the old Favourties and the theme of the games,Prizes and Layouts i would say it set like a 1980 Style with a lot of Voctoria Design The game is ideal for partys and Young people like Children to play with, As an Adult i enjoyed it for a few hours but now it my Younger sisters who are playing the game more than me The game retails for around £15 - £20 and i think the Vaule is very good as it some fun and does make you fell like your at a Carnival (Minus the rides :( ) Games All Together there around 30 games to play and win Tickets on theses games include Alley Ball - Roll The Ball down the lane and try to get the Most Points Super Alley Ball - same as Alley Ball but Harder Test your Strength - Swing the wii remote as many...

k800ifan07 10.05.2008 · Read review
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Hours of fun at the Carnival

Advantages: Great addictive game
Disadvantages: None

...This game is brilliant! I'm hooked, have been playing on it non-stop since I bought it on Sunday. Carnival is a game that is pretty much explained in the title. There are around 25 little mini games to play from ring toss to test of strength. You can play in single player mode where you play to win prizes of various sorts, which then unlock various outfits you can wear. All silly little things like at the moment in the game I think my character is wearing snowshoes, a sheriff badge and a Viking helmet, all of which I think are very fetching!!!!! Multiplayer mode you basically play with friends and try to win! You can choose each individual game to play or you can play a competition where the computer picks 5 mini games to play and you have to get the most points to become champion. This game isn't aimed at serious gamers so don't buy it...

skipper6 05.08.2008 · Read review
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Crazy Carnival

Advantages: some people love it
Disadvantages: some don't

...Ask Germans what they associate with the city of Cologne, Köln in German (the ´ö´is pronounced like the ´u ´ in burn), and I bet you´ll hear, ´Dom und Karneval (cathedral and carnival)´ or the other way round. (There´s fierce competition between the cities Aachen, Düsseldorf, Mainz and Köln (all in the west of Germany, the so-called Rhineland) each proclaiming itself the keeper of the one and only original carnival, from the outside, however, Köln appears to be the epicentre (don´t tell the inhabitants of the other cities that I said that!) As the cathedral is always there and right in the centre, it´s impossible for tourists not to notice it, Karneval on the other hand (I´m using the German terms from now on because there are different terms in the different parts of Germany) is not noticeable all the year round, although it starts...

MALU 11.02.2006 · Read review
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Review of Carnival in Germany

Carnival of boredom

Advantages: Something to watch
Disadvantages: you have to pay rental/buying cost

...Wes Cravens Carnival of souls. This film comes with sub titles such as: “Wes Craven unleashes another stylish SCREAMER”, and “A nightmarishly surreal roller coaster ride of shocks and scares!" But does this 18 certificate DVD live up to the dramatic sub titles? The film opens quite peacefully with a young lady picking flowers. Having a basket full of them, she runs home to show her mummy. However, when she enters her home and calls out for her mummy, there is no reply! Is her mum gone? Has she turned into a psychosomatic woman, about to k ill everyone in sight? Well, no actually she is in the bedroom with a rather strange man! The young lady then sees her mummy....well maybe I won’t tell you in case you do want to watch it yourself. This film is intended to be a horror, but to be honest it’s hardly...

dabmim 04.05.2001 · Read review
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Carnival valor fantastic

Advantages: size of ship, destinations, entertainment, food........
Disadvantages: none

...We have been on a carival cruise once and i would have to say i could not fault it in anyway. We boarded the carnival valor in miami for a 7 night trip to cayman islands, mexico cozumel, honduras and belize. The ship was large on eleven floors and had entertainment day and night for all ages. This cruise line especially caters for families and kids have so much going on including their own camp carnival where there is activities, ps2's, games and discos. The food was great and in abundance and midnight buffet not to be missed. Cabins a bit cramped bit are adequate and cleanliness and cabin service second to none. Staff on board very helpful and friendly and captain always keeping passengers informed. If looking for a posh cruise this isnt for you it is very casual and not at all what i expected a cruise to be. Trying to get off...

gemrocks1 21.08.2007 · Read review
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