Carnival Fascination Review 2019 - CRR 013 | Carnival Cruise Line

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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A detailed review of a seven-night Eastern Caribbean cruise on Carnival Fascination, a ship that is based year-round out of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Date: September 1, 2019

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0:00.0	You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from real cruisers.
0:08.2	On this week's episode of Cruise Radio Rewind, we're going to get a review of Carnival Fascination.
0:12.8	This ship is based down in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and it's actually there year-round, and it does a round of Southern Caribbean cruises.
0:23.8	So it goes to like St. Thomas, St. Martin, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and Barbados. So a little eastern, a little southern there. Jeff joins us on the
0:29.0	line to give us a very detailed review of his seven-night cruise on Carnival Fascination. Jeff, welcome to
0:34.7	the show. Hey, Doug. Glad to be with you. Yeah, man.
0:35.3	Fascination was based here in Jacksonville for like seven or eight years. So I can't wait to talk about this ship because it's been a little while since we have chatted about it. Before we get to the ship, they will take a step back. You're up in the Raleigh, North Carolina area, and you had to get down to San Juan where this ship is home ported year round.
0:36.7	Give me some pre-cruised thoughts.
0:54.8	What made you want to sail this seven-night cruise out of San Juan?
0:59.2	Yeah, sure. It was our fourth time cruising. The first time we cruised, my wife and I, we cruised on our 15th
1:05.2	wedding anniversary, and then we wanted to take the kids. We did smaller Eastern and Western cruises.
1:13.5	And then we've been preparing for this cruise or thinking about it.
1:17.9	It's been about three years since we cruised.
1:20.1	And so we said, we're getting overdue for a cruise.
1:23.1	So let's try to do a cruise.
1:25.6	We had a son that was going into college, and we figured we wouldn't
1:29.6	have very many summers left where he would have two weeks of availability. And the other thing we
1:36.2	were doing is we were learning how to save airline hotel and travel points. You know, a lot of credit cards signups and just paying off
1:47.2	our credit cards and things like that. But we took about a year and a half just so that we could
1:52.3	be budget savvy and do a really big cruise experience, mostly on points. So we were able to fly free,
2:00.3	stay at the hotel free. and most of our crews was paid
2:03.8	through traveler board points.
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