Rudyard

What's funny is that they usually tell you about it in a thread where someone's asking about phone plans in other countries, can they text on the ship, etc. They have this weird air of superiority that compels them to tell you they don't use their phones, even when the thread is about the opposite. To paraphrase the old joke, how can you tell someone puts their phone in the safe on a cruise? Wait five minutes and they'll tell you.

Galveston isn't that big so Uber or Lyft might be a reasonable option. Maybe pick a couple of things you'd like to do during the day like shopping on The Strand, Moody Gardens, Pleasure Pier. Maybe pick a hotel near a couple of decent restaurants that are within walking distance. If you do Uber, you're most likely never going to be more than 10 minutes from where you want to go so it shouldn't be too costly. Finally, Uber to the airport. Hope this helps. Good luck.

I was on the Cozumel Bar Hop once and the tour guide warned us to never rent any kind of vehicle there. She said traffic's always bad and pretty much all you need to get a license there is a pulse. She brought it up after a scooter with a family of four on it zoomed past us. There are people who will tell you it's perfectly safe, they rent vehicles every time they're in Coz, etc, etc. That's awesome for them, but if you do a google search you can find plenty of accidents where cruisers ended up missing the ship or worse.

It went away for a while after the new menus came out a couple of years ago, IIRC. I do remember John Heald saying there was enough of a backlash that they brought it back.

I have a decision to make and hoped I could get some input here. I'll be on Jubilee in December and have FTTF. We normally park at Park N Cruise and walk across the street. On our last cruise, due to mobility issues, I dropped my wife and our luggage off at the terminal and then went to park. For that cruise, Breeze was the only Carnival ship in port so traffic wasn't bad at 10:00 am. For our upcoming cruise, Jubilee and Breeze will both be in port. How bad will traffic potentially be? I'm hoping I wouldn't have to wait half an hour in a line of cars to drop off my bags. My options are 1) Keep FTTF and hope I get lucky with traffic 2) Cancel FTTF and just pick a later time like 1:00pm when I check in to hopefully avoid the morning rush. I'm leaning towards #2 right now but would still like to hear from others about the traffic. Even though it's almost "not worth it" to get FTTF, we still get it so that we can get through security and check in quicker so my wife doesn't have to be on her feet for too long (She doesn't really need a wheelchair and would only use one as a very last resort. She just tires very easily), and to drop our carry on bags since we usually have a nebulizer and half a pharmacy with us which can get heavy after a while.

I'd love to know if anything's leaked out as well. Thinking about booking a Dec 2026 Eastern itinerary and hoping they finally add a Cucina.

Sadly it seems like that's always the case the last couple of years. The buffet menu looks great and the descriptions of the food make me want to eat there, but then you get the food and it's almost like a case of false advertising.

I've stayed in Lido cabins on Breeze and Valor that were two or three cabins away from the Lido Deck and had no issues with noise.

I haven't seen the TABC table the past few cruises I've been on. They might be setting it up in a quiet out of the way corner somewhere since they know most people with alcohol aren't declaring it anyway.

Probably not. I read where people have tried doing that with the pizzas and they won't do it.

We discovered the same problem when we were on Allure last year. Having to reserve dining times with MTD kind of defeats the purpose and the walk up line was always long. Earliest times we could book were all after 7:30 pm and we usually like to eat earlier. It was bad enough that MTD didn't open until like 6:45 IIRC. Luckily we had the three meal dining plan so we ate at specialty restaurants on those night and just went to the Windjammer on the others.

I'm hoping the higher looking prices will keep the people that like to throw chairs in the buffet from booking any more cruises.

Yikes. I've done that a couple of times and the people I did it for were appreciative. I might rethink doing it in the future as I can easily see someone taking it the wrong way.

A few years ago my wife couldn't make a cruise due to having to go out of town on a family related issue, but encouraged me to go without her. Everything happened pretty much the way you describe it for Royal. They called her like MayorDrafty describes in the post above, she said she couldn't make it, they refunded her fees with no fuss.

I haven't seen Guinness on Carnival in years. They have some other kind of stout but can't recall the name.