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Fine you for what? It's not a PVSA violation. Carnival can't hold you hostage. If they won't approve an early debark in advance, just have a family emergency the night before and go to Guest Services telling them you need to disembark in Aruba.
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Embarking with 16oz cans of Monster energy
DallasGuy75219 replied to Neonsport's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
It's hit or miss depending on the port and who is doing the screening and their mood/whim on any particular day. But if it does get confiscated please don't come back here complaining, even if someone on here tells you it's allowed, because you were aware of the rule and the possibility that it could get confiscated.- 7 replies
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Not necessarily. The algorithms maximize total revenue from the series upgrades from the lowest cabin to the highest cabin, so just because someone has the highest bid for a particular category doesn't mean that some else's lower bid isn't part of a different series of bids that better maximizes total revenue.
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Have my parents been scammed by Princess Promotions?
DallasGuy75219 replied to PastryPal's topic in Princess Cruises
Obviously I can't speak to what OP's parents were told they were getting (FCCs or FCDs), but Princess' own semantics only confuse the issue. When I look up my open/pending Future Cruise Deposits, Princess shows them under Future Cruise Credits section. So an FCD is an FCC, but not every FCC is an FCD. -
PVP, Cheers Package, Upgrades and a few random questions
DallasGuy75219 replied to LDL1220's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival won't serve OP's husband more than 15 drinks in a 24 hour period (6 am to 6 am), regardless of what combination of Drinks on Us, Cheers, or individually purchased drinks. If husband will be doing most of his drinking in the casino and OP isn't a big drinker, it may make more sense to buy their drinks a la carte rather than buying Cheers when husband already has DOU. -
Question - Swapping rooms with someone
DallasGuy75219 replied to missusagi's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Based on the info OP provided, there is no way for her and husband to cruise for free and to have Cheers without all four paying for Cheers. Mom and aunt are the ones with free cruise offers. They have to book in their own cabins so there are a third and fourth lower bed available for OP and husband. They can get "key only" S&S cards made so people can sleep in a different cabin than assigned; Carnival doesn't care who sleeps where. But Carnival will not (either before or during the cruise) reassign mom and aunt together and put OP and husband in the same cabin, because no one who would be in that cabin had the casino offer. Plus Carnival knows about the "moving people around" trick to not have to buy Cheers for everyone. Sometimes it works but not in this case when mom and aunt are the only ones with the casino offer. There is only one circumstance in which this would work. If mom and aunt had Drinks On Us Everywhere (not just in the casino), Carnival will let just their roommates buy Cheers because mom and aunt essentially already have Cheers, just paid for by casino. But this can only be done onboard (not with the Cheers prepaid discount) because a bar manager has to override the transaction to sell Cheers to just one person in the cabin. -
Have my parents been scammed by Princess Promotions?
DallasGuy75219 replied to PastryPal's topic in Princess Cruises
Last time I bought FCC was January 2023. I was able to leave a form in a drop box and the $100 was automatically charged to the credit card I had on file for my onboard changes. Has the process changed and I now have to give a credit card directly to O.N.E.? -
Whoops. Emerald Greenland deals revoked.
DallasGuy75219 replied to walkingsoon's topic in Princess Cruises
"Bait and switch" is quite an exaggeration considering you could have still had a free interior room and you're out exactly $0 since they've corrected the offer and you've canceled with no penalty.- 132 replies
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Just about anywhere other than Vines, the wine list only lists the varietals available with Plus, not the vineyard/winemaker. So you order a Cabernet or Chardonnay and very likely get the cheapest label they have, often some plonk like Canyon Road.
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Free drinks everywhere for one/Drink package for partner
DallasGuy75219 replied to koolcat65's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Exactly, a regular bartender can't sell Cheers to a partial cabin, even if the other person has DOU Everywhere. Just ask for a bar manager from the beginning because they will have to override the system to sell Cheers just to the others in the cabin. -
Sit Down Breakfast in MDR going away?
DallasGuy75219 replied to CarnivalCruiser875's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Except I posted about the clientele that Carnival attracts on New Orleans cruises (due to the catchment area of cruisers within driving distance), not New Orleanians themselves. I'm originally from south Louisiana and know all New Orleanians/ Louisianians are not like that. In 47 Carnival cruises, I've sailed out of every US homeport except New York, San Francisco, and Norfolk. Approximately 12 of those have been out of New Orleans and I can unequivocally say that the passengers out of New Orleans (not from New Orleans) are some of the 'grossest' and most ill-mannered and uncultured I've seen on any cruises. -
Clearly the casino won't be open *in port*. My point was how far in advance of docking the casino closes and that it doesn't reopen after the late token port call in Victoria or Vancouver, so some people get caught off guard and can't cash out.
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And Victoria. On Crown in 2022, we were in Victoria from 6 pm to midnight on the last full day of the cruise. The casino shut down around 11 am that day and stayed closed for the remainder of the cruise.
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Sit Down Breakfast in MDR going away?
DallasGuy75219 replied to CarnivalCruiser875's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
If I didn't know better I'd say Glory was still homeported in New Orleans, because those are exactly the kind of clientele Carnival attracts there, even moreso on the 4/5 nights sailings. -
You can't walk in and pick a table. Period. At least not until the upcoming MDR changes are effective. At best you can ask for a table in a certain section or with a specific wait team, or a 2- or 4- top, or a table by a window, perhaps. Just because you see a table empty (and even set) doesn't mean their's a wait team available to work it as soon you sit down. Once the upcoming MDR changes are effective and there is assigned dining agan, you can probably get your assigned table changed, but only to another table that's available, not to any table of your choosing.