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Old October 20th, 2009, 04:18 PM
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I am a past guest and my boyfriend is not. Will he be invited to the party as well as my guest?
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I'd like to know this as well. Thanks in advance!
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Old October 20th, 2009, 04:33 PM
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neither of you will be invited, from what I've read on here, there is only a farewell party on the last sea day for 1 hour.
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Old October 20th, 2009, 04:36 PM
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We were on the Freedom in May and there was a Past Guest Party. Your boyfriend will be permitted to walk in with you - no questions asked.
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If it is a 5-night or longer cruise, you will have a past guest party. Only the past guest will receive an invitation. On some ships, you have to turn the invite in to gain access to the party. So the real answer would be no as your boyfriend is NOT a past guest.

This is one of those dead horses that gets constantly beat on here.
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I was on the Pride. I got an invite but my boyfriend did not. However he went with me with no problems.
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Jetskier, you are the Holiday genious lol. I'm leaving on Saturday. Do you think he has a chance of getting in?
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Thanks, Jetskier. I was just reading that other thread about past guest/farewell parties.
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neither of you will be invited, from what I've read on here, there is only a farewell party on the last sea day for 1 hour.
I believe you are confusing the past guest party with the captains party. The whole ship is still "invited" to the captains party, but the free drinks for that have apparently been stopped. The past guest party is totally seperate from that and still has free drinks. Free drinks also are available at the new farewell party last day of the cruise.
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We are platinum so we are past guests.

On the Triumph last week we both had to turn in our invitations. Have no idea if this is done on all ships but remember doing this on other ones.

One would think that to go to a past guest party one should kind of sorta be a past guest.
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Yes, he will be able to go with you as your "guest" but he will not get an actual invitation like you will. My boyfriend took his first cruise with me two years ago on the Triumph and he was able to come with me to the past guest party no problem
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Jetskier, you are the Holiday genious lol. I'm leaving on Saturday. Do you think he has a chance of getting in?
The past guest party will be held in Doc Holidays. And yes, if you pick a time when a crowd of people are flowing in.
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They never gave me even a glance. Took the invite and let both me and my boyfriend in. No biggie.
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I gave my invitation and my sister's to a couple at our dining table and they said they werent allowed in. Strange had we gone in and brought them as guests, thats ok, but give our invitations to someone who wanted to go so we tried to be genereous, thats not ok. oh well. They really werent enjoying their cruise and we tried to make it better in hopes they would change their mind and want to cruise Carnival again.
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I am a past guest and my boyfriend is not. Will he be invited to the party as well as my guest?
Nope. He is not a past guest!
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