VentureMan_2000

I'm still trying to decern why someone would need to shave a few minutes off the amount of time they would wait in line for a cocktail... you're on a ship... where are you in a hurry to get to ? 🤣

You sound like a reasonable person...

While you pay an 18% surcharge for gratuities for the full Cheers package daily price, or $10.80, after 5 drinks, the gratuity percentage declines significantly. So, if you have 10 drinks, then you are only TIPing half that amount, or 9%. Drinks Price TIP % 1 $12 90.00% 2 $12 45.00% 3 $12 30.00% 4 $12 22.50% 5 $12 18.00% 6 $12 15.00% 7 $12 12.86% 8 $12 11.25% 9 $12 10.00% 10 $12 9.00% 11 $12 8.18% 12 $12 7.50% 13 $12 6.92% 14 $12 6.43% 15 $12 6.00%

Make sure you have your luggage tags on your luggage. The tags will also have "Priority" printed on them. Then the Steward knows your bags belong to that room and cruise.

What is nice is that once StockPerks verifies your shares, then you can use their App to redeem all cruises going forward ( currently, for cruises through Dec 2024 ). I had booked a couple more cruises later and was able to easily redeem my shareholder OBC for those cruises. Previously, I would have had to send in a new request to Carnival for each newly booked cruise.

Yes... Platinum, Diamond, and FTTF is allowed to but only to drop them off in your room. You cannot stay. Drop and Leave, they say.

Download it on your phone or tablet.

Just an app. Kind of a 2-step process. After StockPerks confirms your eligibility, then you use the app to submit a shareholder OBC request to Carnival.

Carnival limits you to 15 drinks... Cheers package or not.

I've seen before at the Alchemy Bar tables as they are long with plenty of seating (before Alchemy opens). The Left Right Center host (organizer) was walking up and down the length of the tables with a big'ol wad of cash in his hand -- collecting and distributing money. I'm sure there was hundreds of dollars in his hand. Didn't bother me... but I do get the whole gambling not allowed rule. Cruise Lines do have to meet Federal laws and other country's laws.

Makes sense as Carnival Corp operates 91 ships.

I only found Carnival's policy on pregnancy: Pregnancy Policy | Carnival Cruise Line

I too bought 100 shares around $45 July 2019, pre-Covid. It was a good deal then as the dividends were good too at 50 cents a share and I liked the shareholder benefit. We had 5 cruises booked for the coming 2 years. Then starting around Feb 24, 2020 CCL's stock price started to crash. I chased the stock down, purchasing more as the stock declined, trying to cost-average the price I paid. I chased it down to the $8 range. When I was done purchasing in the $8 range, I now had 800 shares of CCL and had cost averaged my CCL price down to $22.45 which was still three times to going price of $8. I sat and waited... watching the market daily. Then June came and I saw a chance to sell and get out. Friday, June 5th saw a high price of 22.30. I put a sell order in over the weekend for $22.45, hoping to at least get my money back. Not only did my shares sell Monday when the market opened, they sold for $23.45... I actually lucked out and made a $1/share profit - $800. I finally became brave enough to cruise again at the end of 2022 and booked an Alaskan Cruise for 2023. I again started to monitor CCL's price again, and finally bought 100 shares at $9.40 in April 2023. I figured at that price, I wouldn't have much to lose... and it wouldn't take long to receive $1000 in shareholder benefits as we have been booking 6 cruises a year. But this story serves as a lesson of caution if you are only purchasing for the shareholder benefit. The stock price moves up and down a lot. Carnival now owes $32 Billion... it will be a long time before this debt gets paid down.

The price of CCL fluctuates a lot. You could easily lose more than $100 on the price fluxuation of CCL while trying to get a $100 OBC. Very common for the price to rise/drop 4% in a day... never know.

Carnival says: Except where it is a mandatory requirement, Carnival highly recommends that all guests travel with a passport book. The passport book must be valid for at least six months beyond the completion of travel. You can read the details here: carnival.com/help?topicid=3409