BullDawg91

You generally need to buy within about 14 days of your initial deposit to have pre-existing conditions covered.

If you want to pick up insurance, I suggest you contact someone at the trip insurance store with expertise to discuss your specific situation since you know there is a condition.

Also, tell them if she is cruising or if you are cruising and wants find out if you would have coverage if something happens to her and you need to return mid trip or cancel last minute.

There is no play structure on the Breeze, indoor or outdoor.

We cruised in May. We had no delay in texting with iPhones. I heard there were some issues with Android phones.

They have them, but don't expect any spa like amenities. My spouse was disappointed in them.

Port Orleans French Quarter has a lot of charm. You will enjoy it. You can take a boat to Downtown Disney from there too for free entertainment after AK closes.

The general assumption is that you have a health insurance plan that they would require to pay before travel coverage would kick in.

The catch, to me, is that it seems most healthcare providers in the Caribbean, Mexico and the Bahamas will require you to pay them before treatment or before you leave. This would mean you hand over a credit card. When you get home you file claims with you primary health insurance to repay YOU and once they pay, you file with your travel insurance.

I would just buy travel insurance that paid primary and cut out one time consuming stressful step.

You CAN use iMessage from iPhones to iPads with the $25 plan. If the phone is onboard, you need to put it in Airplane mode to avoid carrier charges. The messages will travel over wifi instead of your carrier network. This assumes, as in the scenario brought up originally, that the iPad is at home.

If both devices were onboard, the only way to make it work would be to buy two $25 packages, one for each device.

I am not electronically savvy so please be patient with me, I have an ipad and will be on the sunshine. My dad has an ipad who will be staying home. If I purchase the social package for $5 a day, I will be able to talk to my dad to check in and make sure everything is fine? I am getting nervous because I am leaving him with a bunch of cats to watch and my mom who is sick and knowing that I won't be able to keep in touch while on the cruise is really making me anxious. I just want to make sure I understand.

With the value plan, you will be able to text him using iMessage. Make sure you can do that from home before you leave. Otherwise, you can text him using Facebook Messenger.

To keep from getting worried about my mother, I texted her when I knew she was likely home watching TV late in the evening . She always answered pretty quickly that way. She's not glued to her phone all day like we are. [emoji6]

So can we FaceTime on the $60 plan?

I don't think so. Maybe on the $90 plan.

Does anyone know how this is regulated? Like how are you only allowed to use certain apps & not get online? (Using an iPhone)

The plan you purchase limits the access. The value plan only allows you certain websites/apps. The Next plan allows email. I think the top plan allows most everything.

We will be cruising over New Years with our teenagers and have a question about texting.......do the text messages travel from one phone to the next quickly or is there a lag time? Exploring ideas of how to stay in contAct with the kids when on the ship.........so wondering if the 25.00 texting plan would be a good idea for them or not.....thanks in advance.

To text onboard (if you don't have the Hub chat function, currently only on the Breeze), each person you want to text with (onboard) will have to have the $25 wifi plan. Only one person can be logged in to a plan at a time. You can share a plan (you log in using a folio number), but of course you wouldn't be able to text each other that way. It will be expensive to purchase the plan for each person. The service was pretty much instantaneous for us though.

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We will be on the Sunshine soon. My kids cannot wait, I'm petrified, but just curious, do you know if there is a weight limit?

 

 

 

Or any other restrictions?

 

 

 

Thanks.

I think the weight limit was 250 lbs on the Breeze and you had to have closed toe shoes.

Disney doesn't even print all the pictures. They scan your card when they make the picture and you look them up using your card. Some will be printed and placed in your folio, but not all.

Even if Carnival does recycle, it seems a crazy labor and supply intensive waste to print all those pictures. I would have bought more but I couldn't find them when I went to look. I didn't want to spend an hour or more rifling through thousands of pictures. Now I know to pull my family's pictures every day and have them held at the desk.

Woohoo! So excited...for the kids! I'm a big old scary cat :)

I'm a scaredy cat too. I actually got out there on the Breeze and cried and came back to the start. It was rather terrifying to this grown woman while small children (including my medium children) ran around me. I kept picturing myself dangling from the tether and being unable to get back up on the course.

Oh well, maybe next time.

We folded them up and covered them with packing tape - same effect as laminating.

Due to a surgery, I need to use a knee scooter. Sailing on the Paraidse next week & was wondering if I would have any problems getting around the ship. Does Carnival provide assistance at the buffet ?

 

We will have 2 tendered ports ( private island & Cayman Island ) & 1 docked, Cozumel. How would I get off the ship at both kind of ports ?

 

thank you

OMG, I wish these things existed when I spend 20 weeks on crutches 20 years ago.

Are you weight bearing at all? Could you use a cane?

My husband will iron his dress clothes on a cruise in the laundry facilities/ironing rooms. I did laundry once while hanging out with a sick kid in the cabin. Except for those two situations, we don't care about laundry.

On the last cruise, I really intended to send out the bag-o-laundry, but couldn't even be bothered to do that.

It is not a deal breaker either way to have self serve laundry facilities.

Thanks for the explanation. Our ship leaves at 4, so we probably won't cut it so close as to get there at two, but glad to hear there were still parking spaces available.

 

Sounds crazy why the process is so convoluted - we normally just get in one line, show our docs and get our cards right then and there. I wonder why the Breeze is so different.

On our Breeze cruise in May: We showed our passports to TSA type officials as you first enter the terminal. We then proceeded through the luggage scanners and metal detectors. We went straight up to the counter to get our Sign and Sail cards and boarding group. I'd say it didn't take more than 15 minutes. The terminal is large and there seemed to be plenty of space to sit. We were there about 10:30. The terminal was already pretty crowded.

Interesting.

We found the food much better on the Breeze (in May) than on our 2 Disney cruises. It was quite ho-hum on Disney with the exception of Palo. We always found something we enjoyed on the Breeze.

We also found the staff to be very friendly, maybe just a short notch below Disney.

I'll agree that the pool situation was just about gross, but is it any different on any other ship? The only difference on Disney is that the pools are chock full of kids instead of Disney. I'll just stay out of all of them!

We also liked the Playlist shows. We had late dining so we didn't see the comedy shows or experience the piano bar.

We enjoyed the sea day activities on Carnival much more than Disney.

We did miss the movie theater that Disney has.

We'll definitely cruise Carnival again.

How do you go about purchasing as well as authorizing your device with this service?

On the Hub App, there is a section for logging in to the internet that will prompt you to purchase a plan. It's quite straightforward once you get to see it. You log in with your folio number. I gave my daughter my folio number so that she could log in on her phone. We shared one plan (one at a time).

I haven't seen how you log in to a device that does not have an app. I assume there is a website that you can access to log in and I would bet you use your folio number. Maybe someone will tell us what that looks like.

I would just cruise. The price of a short stay at WDW is prohibitive. I would make WDW a separate trip when you can stay for 5 days or so and build in plenty of rest. A short trip forces you to cram too much in. The price per day goes down the longer you stay.

Sheldon Cooper. Can you imagine what a nightmare a cruise with Sheldon would be?

In other words, insurance is not just to cover the cost of the cruise, it is to cover expenses if you have a travel problem or a medical issue while you are cruising.

If you break a leg and can't travel between final payment and the cruise leaving, you would recoup via insurance.

If you break a leg on an excursion, have medical treatment and have to fly home mid cruise, you would recoup your expenses and missed cruise via insurance.

I am so confused about this App. All I get when I search the App Store is the CruiseMate one and I don't think that's it. But nothing other than that and casino ones come up when searching Carnival Cruise...or any variation thereof. Help?!

I see it when I type "Carnival Cruise" or "Carnival Hub".

Are you searching on an iPad? Make sure you're not searching iPad only apps.

We were on the cruise where they piloted the elevator call system on the forward bank. You select the location you are going to on touchpad and it tells you which elevator to wait for.

We never had any problems with it, but our cabin was aft so we didn't have to use it all day.

It was chaotic for a bunch of impatient people coming back onboard from a port. Lots of people just took the stairs. You just had to be patient and wait until the elevator got there.

What it eliminated,as far as I saw, was the jockeying for position in front of the elevator people thought was coming next. It also eliminated the issue of people (kids) pushing all the buttons causing the elevator to stop at every floor. That was happening toward the end of te cruise.