We have also been on a LOT of Carnival cruises and I will tell you that the Triumph and Victory cruiseships are not my favorite for one BIG reason. If you look at the size of this ship and compare it with the other ships (Triumph is 101,000 tons......Pride is 88,000 tons and Conquest is 110,000 tons) you will see that on the Triumph and Victory, even though the ship itself is larger than a lot of other ships, the extra tonnage is NOT allotted to public spaces but rather to staterooms. When we went on our cruise on the Triumph, I was excited because at the time, this ship was the largest in the Carnival fleet. Well, the public areas were so crowded, the buffet lines were always extremely long and we were always having a difficult time maneuvering around people. That is when I decided the problem was that the extra space was for extra staterooms and the public areas were not built larger to accomodate the extra passengers. We then went on the Pride, which was a smaller ship and newer.......the public areas were the right size to accomodate the amount of passengers. Next we tried the Conquest, knowing that it was larger than the Triumph, but I did study the schematic of the Conquest and determined that the design mistakes of the Triumph were not repeated in the Conquest design ships. The public areas were designed to accomodate the larger amount of passengers on the ship and it was a divine cruiseship and experience.
As for the itinerary, Carnival pretty much ''owns'' their ports of call. By this I mean, Carnival has so many ships and has the cruise experience down to a ''science'' that you cannot go wrong with Carnival except with the problem I mentioned with the Triumph itself.
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