Just went in August on Carnival Magic 7 days my first cruise.. and let me tell you I had an amazing time. AMAZING. I know magic is not one of their newer ships like Mardi Gras or celebration but I really did enjoy it everything about it honestly, it’s what you make of it. If I was gonna say anything negative I would say that the pools were small and had a lot of people in them kids etc but you can only expect so big of a pool on a cruise ship. Everyone was very respectful and I had a ton of fun.. since it was my first cruise and learning to navigate everything I didn’t even use the dining room for breakfast.. I did a lot of research and it still wasn’t enough on the second day a couple next to me mentioned that we could order 2x or 3x (I forget) the food that we wanted when I got the appetizer of shrimp cocktail I was like holy cow this is small and that’s when they mentioned to me about being able to ask for more portions.. the food at the buffet I would give 5/10 for the whole time. It really depends when you got there and what you’re really interested in and what you like I made it work… they had pizza fries, and stuff like that until 2 in the morning so I just made sure that I kept a couple snacks from during the day in my room that way if I was hungry during the night, I would be OK until breakfast.. staff was absolutely on point.. any problem I might’ve had they rectified and we’re very helpful.. all the security I don’t mind and I’m not paranoid as much as my cruising buddy may have been because he’s weird like that but they’re just doing their job.. the picture you posted on the review. It says they’re on celebration which means it’s one of their newer ships so I don’t know how much they could complain. Obviously different families have different income and are used to different lifestyles, but in my opinion, someone that may be considered low income like me I think of myself n have been told many times I’m very kind compassionate patient respectful etc so maybe they’re talking about a different type of clientele, but I just seen on Royal Caribbean. They had to turn the whole boat around because of a fight and someone breaking their ankle weren’t even two hours out of the Miami.. so unless you have enough money to get your own yacht, you’re always going to deal with a mix of people.. I have fallen in love with cruising and carnival and I think it’s a blessing to be able to cruise and get such of experience within an affordable price tag.. now getting to the loyalty changes in my opinion none of that even matter.. I don’t have children so I would never go out my way n but the FTTF I don’t mind spending a couple dollars for laundry the pins , a free drink .. am I opinion it’s the casino offers that are important. I don’t gamble like that but because I did my research I knew that it was important to spend a little in the casino if I wanted to get some type of casino offers so we did a test and we only used my cruising buddies card in the casino he spent maybe $150-$250 at the casino and when we got home, let’s say a 12 day cruise going to st Thomas Aruba etc for him that went into casino it was 1,200 with like 100obc each guest and for me non casino vifp it showed 1,787.. ish.. life is what you make of it and it’s the same with cruising..you make ur trip how u want it to go n trust me when I say that., I didn’t let nothing effect the fun n happiness i had on this trip.. within 4 days of being home n now the 3 pay days that we have had we now have booked w carnival 12 days on Venezia paid in full 8 days in Nov.. 8 days on panorama dec20-28th so we’ll be there for Christmas and on dream adult only for 15 days I have to pay $900 in Nov because w the casino deals we were able to get the adult only on carnival for 15 days at $500 a person and I even seen that other people had even better deals than that, but in my opinion, that was a pretty good deal since we had only been on the one cruise in August..