CruiseHealing

I was there last year and bought a real nice HMC t-shirt. I used my Sign & Sail card.

Our son was on the very last Carnival Destiny cruise (4 day cruise leaving on Dec. 20, 2012) I asked him to get me a model ship. They sold out, so on the last he asked the employee at the register if he could buy the ship in the window. He said yes and he know where the box is. So I got the last Carnival Destiny. So I have 2 Destiny Ships (the first ship was bought on the New Years Eve 5 day cruise Dec. 28, 2009) and I have 2 Carnival Sunshine models (Inagural cruise April 19, 2014 and the 2nd ship bought on the April 16, 2016). The first Sunshine model I bought was on the Inagural Sunshine cruise out of Port Canaveral. The reason why I have two ships is because we owned two homes at the time. I have a total of 39 ships (not all carnival). We sold our second home two years ago, so the ship models are now all together. We change out the ship we are displaying frequently. We have been on Carnival Sunshine (including the Sailebration) six times and it needs to comeback to Florida.

Last May we had a Wrap-Around Balcony on our Alaskan cruise (Carnival Spirit). What great views!!! You will not regret booking an Aft-View Balcony on this cruise.

So you are allowed to leave and you receive a pass re-board. Will they allow you to bring on two bottle of wine and 12 pack of can soda? If so, I would just go to my car to resupply.

What ship and port was this?

The China ship is based on the Carnival Vista Class. The Adora Magic City ship launched recently, with another Vista Class ship in 2025.

When Carnival changed the Platinum level to days cruised, from 10 cruises got you Platinum status, Carnival experienced a strong spike in bookings as people were trying to secure their next level, which was grandfathered in for future years. I suspect that this will be done on the launch of a new plan. So price of bookings will increase for the grace period due to the limited supply of available cabins. Just a side note: I know a woman that became Platinum on the 10 cruises rule. Here current total number of days is around 65. So you see the power of the grace period capturing the next tier.

If you haven’t heard Disney cruise lines just announced a major change to their loyalty program: Guests who have completed one eligible Disney cruise automatically qualify for Castaway Club membership. To remain in the program, Castaway Club Members must book or sail on at least one eligible cruise within 5 years of their last Disney voyage. There are lot Carnival cruisers that have status, but haven’t sail Carnival for many years. This would be a way to thin heard of Diamonds, Platinums and Golds that switched to other cruise lines or just stop cruising.

Our first PVP we used was is 2010. Our personalities really clicked (I was an outside sales rep then, currently being retired). He is now an Elite PVP and he is extremely busy. He has done some magic for us a few times. Example: when Carnival appeared to be ready to start sailing during COVID I called him to see if he could get us on the Horizon for the July 4, 2021 sailing (Carnival’s first sailing out of Florida). The website was not letting you book because they had limited the booking to 50% occupancy. I called him and talked about the difficulties trying to book this cruise. He asked me for a list of cabins we were interested in. I gave him the cabin numbers based on my first choice. After about 20 minutes later he called me to tell us we were booked in our first choice cabin. We did this less than 10 days before sailing. What an exciting time. I met Christine Duffy on the cruise and told her about this experience. If you like your PVP, learn to work with them. The senior ones know a lot of people behind the scenes to you get things done.

Same thing for us. $50 per person with remainder becoming FCC.

I downloaded the app last Sunday. I blanked out all of my holdings and account number, leaving only the Carnival shares. I left my name on it as well as the date of my Monthly statement. I took a photograph of it using the app and on Wednesday I got the Verification from Stockperks and then submitted my cruise info Wednesday and on Friday I got my $100 OBC. Overall it was easy to do. If I did midweek I believe they would process my verification quicker. Why, I think most people do it on weekends and they were overly busy. By mid-week they are probably not as buried with request. At least that’s my guess.

I received 9 of them. As I was deleting all of them I thought they must be getting desperate.

We are on the same cruise. I thought about euros or dollars for tipping cruise staff. Since this is the last cruise before the Carnival Pride heads back to the states, US dollars would be appropriate. Maybe we will bump in to each other on board. We are flying our Saturday morning and have plans in Rome for Monday and Tuesday. We did a 14 day land vacation throughout Italy before Covid. So we are just visiting site that missed in 2019.

I haven’t heard “Welcome Back Party” for a long time. The last time we went to that party was 2004 / 05. The party was open to all return cruisers. The ones we went to was in a night club. They were lots of fun!!!

To my understanding the pier project must accommodate the Excel ship and its guests. But to handle more than one Excel ship would require a larger investment, which would include a major overhaul of its current facilities.