3hr night club with 15mins of sword battle sold as a Pirate Battle cruise. AVOID…read more
This is NOT Medieval Times on a boat. It is literally a loud 3hr night club with a forced humor comedy show. Only at the last third of the trip do we have a pirate battle.
First, i want to say the performers did their best to entertain. I want to commend them for putting in the effort (hence the 2nd star), but this cruise fails miserably to give you an entertaining pirate show with action and story while you eat. You depart at 6:30pm and from departure to 8pm, you listen to the captain (Jack Sparrow in our case) try to run a comedy show involving audience participation, games, karaoke, and music and dancing... A LOT of music and dancing. With extremely loud club music and strobe lights.
At 8pm, you finally eat. The food is so-so. The surf & turf is a lobster tail with a large cut of carne asada, not fillet mignon, not ribeye or NY steak. Carne asada. All this for $120 USD/person. Then comes the ship battle which is the main event sword fight among various characters. It lasts for about 15-20mins. It's good, but then more loud night club music as you make your way back to the dock and arrive at 10pm.
CONCLUSION:
This is a cruise for young people and/or for those who LOVE clubs. I am 45 and have always hated the loud cacophony of clubs. I tried my best to get to quieter areas of the ship, which is hard because the ship is so small and there are a lot of people all over. Many dancing, some hunched over drunk with vomit on the floor (they serve unlimited alcohol up until a certain hour). This is NOT the place i wanted to take my kids at all.
IMPROVEMENTS:
I would have liked this cruise more if it was more like Medieval Times where there is an actual story told from start to end, and you get scenes with action/battles acted out during the cruise. I feel bad for the performers. They are doing their best, but there just isn't any cohesion presented in the show that interests anyone who doesn't like dance clubs.