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JenSDCA

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  • Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Interests
    Love world travel!! Music, family
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Carnival
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Any that I can

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  1. Lots of schools have off the week of Presidents Day, because so many families were taking trips then (fewer missed school days). In our school district we just call it ski week. Gladys, from my (somewhat limited) experience, I’d pick August. Many areas are back in school, many colleges have started back up, though not all obviously. Last year we took a weeklong cruise at the end of May, forgetting how many schools/colleges had already wrapped up. Soooo many kids!
  2. This! Now if only Carnival would resume sailing out of San Diego! But if I absolutely had to choose, I personally would do excursions. I had one drink per day on our recent cruise so Cheers had no value to me personally. I would prefer option C. Stay onboard or do my own wandering in lieu of excursions, and use the $1600 on another cruise.
  3. Is your Carnival agent able to get to the bottom of this? That’s who I’d be requesting to act on your behalf and find out. If it is the chargeback, would paying back the money get you off the list? Or is the door closed? The fact that you’re able to sail in Princess shows that you’re not banned on all Carnival-owned lines, so maybe there’s hope.
  4. Thank you for your open minded comparison. My family absolutely loves seeing comedy every night it’s offered, so that is something for us to make note of. As far as the door tags for room service breakfast, we were told that too many tags were being swiped or altered while hanging, and that pranksters were hanging order tags on doors with Do Not Disturb signs. Perhaps they should have a way to order in the app the night before. Some people had luck calling in their order the night before, but we never reached a human in our attempt to do so. 🤷🏼‍♀️
  5. Just got off Panorama with my family. All 4 of us have iPhone 14s. 3 of us could send and receive iMessages at the beginning of the cruise; at the end of the cruise 3 of us could not. It didn’t matter to us as we’d paid for the $5 chat feature in the Hub app, but it was just odd. I continued to receive push notifications for my Ring, but couldn’t iMessage after day 3 or 4. 🤷🏼‍♀️
  6. Ship - Panorama Deck - 7 Stateroom # - 7269 Stateroom Category – 8C, balcony, ambulatory accessible Starboard or Port Side - starboard Quiet Stateroom? (With comments on problems) – not consistently. The corner of the cabin by the balcony door was squeaky throughout. The balcony partitions rattled like crazy, until my spouse rigged up a fix. Noise from people getting off the elevator was minimal; however the proximity to Sky Zone and the teen club meant groups of teens hanging out on the stairs, and they were rather noisy. Was stateroom a connecting stateroom? - no Balcony View - Give comments on view, noting if location of any obstructions was an issue. – no obstruction. Balcony overlooks deck 5, so you don’t look straight down to the water, but not an annoyance. Do note that this section of deck 5 is a smoking area, in case that might bother you. I’m pretty sensitive to smoke and it didn’t bother me at all, except for one guy’s nightly cigar. Balcony Size? Normal or oversized for class? - normal Was wind a problem? - yes, on all sea days. Partitions rattled like crazy; they really should put something so that it’s not metal on metal. If an aft cabin, was soot a problem? - n/a Any specific problems with this cabin? - already mentioned. Any other comments? - room is designated ambulatory accessible, so it has a fold-down shower seat. My spouse is an amputee, so this is an important safety feature. However, for some reason the door to the bathroom only opened about 75° and the step up is at least 6”, so him getting into and out of the bathroom when his leg was off was challenging. Beware if this might be problematic for you or your partner. Also, cabin door did not close properly if you were gentle; it looked closed but one push opened it. A solid yank after closing was needed. Many others in my Facebook group commented on having the same issue.
  7. I agree with the others that you will still need some of the features of a handicap cabin. However, if you are feeling bad about taking one, there is the option of an ambulatory accessible cabin. Those have grab bars in the bathroom and a fold down seat in the shower, but they don’t provide the wider doorways, and there is still a lip at the bathroom door. If there’s any risk of tripping, I’d consider staying put. We will be in an ambulatory accessible cabin in May, I’ll have a review after.
  8. My son will be so disappointed that they no longer have the mac n cheese on the sea day brunch menu, that’s one thing he still mentions every time cruising is discussed.
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