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Do you get to walk down in the caves at your own leisure, or is it guided tour groups only? Not a big fan of guided tours....I always feel like Pee-Wee Herman on his excruciating Alamo tour.

Well, I'm sailing in 12 days, so I'd consider that pretty close. I clicked on some of the other bars, and three of them have menus showing, so I am definitely looking in the right place. Whoever is in charge of Linking the menus must be conspiring to keep me from planning my martini plan of attack! 😁 I will take the advice of looking at the current sailing for my ship and see if anything shows up. Thanks 🙂

I always see the response to look in the app. I have the latest version of the app, on a qualifying new enough iphone, and I am not seeing any drink menu or prices for the martini bar. When I click on Martini Bar, I get hours of operation only. Please tell me where these mystery menus people keep referencing can be found?

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It's the time for whatever port the ship is leaving from.

I've never been on a cruise ship with self serve laundry but I guess I will be when I go on the Pride. How much does a load of laundry cost, and do you scan your sea pass card, or should I bring quarters? TIA

I’ll keep it short and sweet…..melting cake 😋

I only use independent tour operators that have great reviews. Carnival doesn’t know if the ship is going to follow ship time or local time, the captain changes it depending upon the sailing..but it’s a red flag if the independent operator who has passengers from multiple lines and resorts doesn’t read the captain’s mind? I disagree.

We put all of our collective POPS and wines for our group of three (3 bottles of wine, 24 juice boxes, and 12 pop cans) into a small roller suitcase, the size that they just barely let you bring as a carry on for a plane trip. We put it on the security scanner and there were no issues, no questions asked, no having to open it up. We boarded the ship and since the rooms weren't ready, we just left it outside our cabin door and went to find some food. When rooms were ready, our cabin steward had placed the suitcase in the room for us. This was a February 2024 cruise out of Manhattan.

My son took his first Carnival cruise when he was 2 years old, so I'm very familiar with the different stages of the kids programs. The 11 and 14 year old will be in two different programs. The 11 year old is in Camp Ocean, Sharks program, and the 14 year old is actually in Circle C (12-14 year olds). Camp Ocean is more structured and opens in the morning. They play games and do a lot of craft based activities. They also have parades and some events for the parents/grandparents and children to do together. My son always went to Camp Ocean as soon as it opened and wanted to stay until the lunchtime close. Then he'd go back after dinner. In the Shark age group (9-11), the adult has the option to sign a permission form to let the child sign themselves in or out, or just keep it where an adult needs to sign them out. Circle C is more free form and activities start at noon. My son just had his first cruise as a Circle C'er so that is pretty fresh in my memory. They had video gaming tournaments, foosball and basketball competitions and also played a lot of hide and seek on some chosen deck (yes, sometimes the kids running around "unsupervised" was a Carnival sponsored activity!) They also had their own silent discos and parties on several nights.The 12-14 year olds can come and go as they please and the timing of the activities was posted in the Hub app.My son often came back to the stateroom after 11:30 pm, wiped out, but I think they have a 1 am curfew. Like previous posters suggested, it's a good idea to have them go the first evening when they have the get to know you activities because they might find a buddy that they get together with and hang out the whole cruise.

Well, as a measly gold level cruiser, I hope they don't touch my (whoop-dee-doo!) free bottle of water!!

It's up to the captain, and apparently they may change for a particular sailing. I found this out the hard way last month on Venezia. I called Carnival and talked to a representative and asked about my particular sailing. I said "I don't know" is an acceptable answer. He told me, "No, I assure you the captain goes by local time, don't worry." The day before out port of call the cruise director announced that we would not be switching times, so we would be one hour behind local time. Thankfully, I had the internet package and was able to contact my independent tour operators to see if they could accommodate our time changes, and they did. All that to say, you can't know with any reliability, until you are on the ship.

Going to be on the Eclipse in May 2024. There are SOME things showing 25% off. Drink packages, and a very few excursions. Most have 5-20% discount, if anything.

Um, I was responding to “I wish Carnival would go back to Adult Only aft pools on all their ships!” Adult only. Not accompanied or non-accompanied.

As a parent, I appreciate having multiple pool options for my children. Since my kids are not feral, we pick whichever pool is quieter. That's why we pick RCCL, NCL or Carnival ships with climbing walls, water parks and ropes courses. Seems like they are geared towards families. When I reach the "Get off my lawn!" phase of life, I'll probably try sailing different lines, or smaller ships that don't market themselves as family cruises. 🤷‍♀️