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PVSA applies to transporting revenue passengers, therefore crew members signing off in a US port (if they happened to have signed on in a different US port without a distant foreign port stop during their contract) wouldn't be subject to a fine.

The dryers are hit and miss. Some of them don't get quite hot enough so you either have to run a second cycle or air dry damp clothes in your cabin.

Port side is nonsmoking. On the other side of the bar, more starboard, is the smoking section.

My post was abundantly clear. CBP levies the fines against the cruise line, and the cruise line collects it from the passenger.

The fine is levied against the cruise line, not the passenger. If anyone is preventing a passenger from disembarking until the fine is paid, it's the cruise line doing so either because the passenger was paying their onboard account in cash or because the credit card they were using was denied when the cruise line tried to charge additional pre-authorizations.

That was primarily right after the restart when ships were sailing nowhere close to full and the cruise lines were doing anything they could to get any warm body onboard. Now that demand is at or above pre-COVID levels you don't hear non-gamblers say they're getting casino offers (at least the better offers like comped cruises).

That's overly broad. A cruise line "shall not impose or apply eligibility criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a disability or any class of individuals with disabilities," but if they can't ask at all about someone's needs how are they supposed to provide an accessible cabin that meets their needs? Not being able to ask about someone's needs is completely counterproductive to making reasonable accommodations to meet their needs, which is the whole point of the ADA.

It's on the back of the complimentary room service menu.

Princess' upgrade process is outsourced to a third party (Plusgrade). You're getting scripted, unhelpful answers because no one at Princess has direct control of or visibility to your upgrade bids, or direct control of the upgrade process on any sailing. The bidding/upgrade process is to set up to be entirely online and automated, so it's not surprising when Princess employees tell you there's nothing they can do, because the process isn't meant to be manually manipulated or subject to Princess employees trying to figure out why you didn't get an upgrade but someone else did.

It's just not worth the extra expense and possibly longer processing time and scrutiny considering how few were scheduled even when they were allowed. The cruise lines pretty much only scheduled them when had a 2-3 open days before or after a repositioning or for example if a hurricane cut a scheduled cruise short.

It doesn't help that Princess' website still shows La Patisserie as a foodservice option on Island.

No different than toiletries or OTC meds or feminine products in a cruise shift gift shop.

Southwest doesn't serve DFW (yet). If other airlines were taking off, your flight was likely cancelled because the weather delay caused to crew to no longer be legal to take off.

Exactly. They've cut down on the number of events and giveaways on premier cruises while increasing the number of premier guests they'll book. I'd much rather take a free interior with DOU Everywhere and several hundred dollars in freeplay on the same sailing vs. a free balcony and DOU in the casino only on a premier cruise, and that's exactly what I've been doing on my future bookings. I'm trying Ultra to see if that's worth the opportunity cost of giving up better perks on other offers.

Some of these exclusions are ridiculously conservative. At least a quarter of Carnival passengers (myself included) are probably diabetic, based on what you see at the buffet. Some people's diabetes is controlled with medicine, and not every diabetic has peripheral neuropathy or limbs rotting off. It certainly doesn't stop me from getting massages at home.