DallasGuy75219

I'm surprised they applied it to cruises that far out. People have reported they were told to resubmit current documentation closer to sailing date for cruises more the 4-5 months in the future.

If ships are full now, some of those cabins were booked at deeply discounted prices or free casino offers when cruises were still paused or after they restarted. I'm not a casino whale but all 8 of my post-restart cruises so far have been free from the casino. I have 3 more free cruises booked through January and within the last week booked 3 more free Carnival cruises for September-December 2023. Not just 3-5 day sailings on Fantasy class. I had my pick of 6-8 day sailings on Mardi Gras, Celebration, and Jubilee, including some holiday weeks. And I'm still getting massively more free cruise offers than I could ever take. My point? As long as the cruise lines are throwing free cruise offers left and right at little fish like me, that's a sign demand isn't there to start jacking up cruise prices significantly, with the exception of high-demand sailings like holiday weeks when they can fill the ship without giving away free casino rooms.

I was cut off after 2 on my last Carnival cruise in February. (I did plan to check in after my third but still had several hours until departure.) Apparently they've tightened it down even more since then because people are more interested in drinking than getting their business taken care of so the ship can depart.

Must have been undergoing maintenance because all my booked cruises (including this Saturday's departure😱) disappeared. I tried logging out then back in to see if it would re-link my bookings, but no luck. But then it started working again later this morning.

Supply and demand is a much stronger driver of pricing vs. inflation for a business with perishable inventory and high fixed costs (i.e., a cruise line).

If you do get an offer with Princess Plus, remind the casino reservations agent that your offer includes it and confirm that they put it in the reservation. It doesn't automatically get populated in the reservation even if your offer includes it, so they have to manually add it to the booking. Had to go back and forth with Princess to correct a reservation with a Princess Plus offer when the agent didn't add it to the original booking.

Or packing.

It's been death by a thousand cuts. At first they spun it as replacing the lobster with crab ravioli, then they kept downgrading to smaller portions of and cheaper seafood. The seafood entree on short (5 days or less) cruise formal nights is now about 6 (as I recall) grilled shrimp.

What specifically--the steak? On my last cruise I had to send mine back because I ordered it medium and it came out cooked to the consistency of shoe leather. One of only two times in my life I've sent back a steak (the other time being also on Carnival when my medium flat iron steak came out bleu). But with the cheaper steak now at brunch I'll have to be more of a stickler about sending it back if it comes out overcooked.

Carnival will cut off your S&S card after I think the first 2 drinks on embarkation day if you haven't checked in yet, so that's also an incentive for people drinking at the bar to check in.

All the cruiselines made this change when cruises restarted after COVID because it was no longer safe to pack people wall-to-wall at the muster stations for 15 minutes solely for a drill. Obviously in a true emergency, spreading COVID at the muster stations still isn't as bad as drowning with the ship. What's supposed to happen though is you watch the safety video on the cruiseline app or cabin TV, and when you go to the muster station the crew can see on their tablet that you've done so. If you haven't, they can do the lifejacket demo in person and clear you as complete, but it sounds like some crew are getting sloppy and just clearing people regardless.

Definitely no free lobster in the MDR. You'd have to eat in the steakhouse or buy the Steakhouse Selections off the MDR menu

The menu on the TV may not be what's actually being served that night. On my Regal B2B last month I had my order figured out in advance one night the first week (Barcelona to Rome), only to get to the table and see they were serving something completely different. But the menu on the TV that day was served one night the next week (Rome to Athens).

Most mass market ships are built with a single galley to service multiple MDRs. That's why, for example, you (as a passenger) can't cross the ship front to back on the deck with the lower level dining room on most Carnival ships; the galley is in the middle of the two MDRs. Different menus would defeat the purpose of the common galley, or at least complicate its operation.

Apparently you have difficulty with reading comprehension. I said "I didn't call out your INFO specifically." And nowhere in this post did OP frame the question in the context of a cruise involving Canada, which would have at least allowed others to realize that your response might not be applicable to their situation. Done and put on ignore.

Used to be lox on the buffet at breakfast too😪

Not the $25 in chips they initially give you; those are promotional chips that can only be played. But the payout if you win with those chips is with regular chips that you can cash out.

1. I didn't call out your info specifically. I gave examples of specific differences depending on debarkation port, ports on the itinerary, and length of cruise that precludes an overly implified, one-size-fits post to be accurate in all situations. It's not rude to warn people that the advice in here may nor be accurate and/or applicable in their situation. Case in point... 2. ... your post is a perfect example of why I posted what I did.

Menu is the same in both. Not much difference with one being more preferable, with the possible exception of feeling more vibrations in the aft dining room. But note you generally don't have a choice in which one you go to. For assigned time dining you're assigned to the same table in one or the other for the whole cruise. Anytime dining is only in one dining room, usually the lower level of the forward dining room.

In theory.... but when I've asked the contract check-in employees post-restart they had no idea. It's a question I kinda expected them to be able to answer because pre-COVID they would say you could go directly to your room because you're Platinum/Diamond.

This would be my last choice. You'll likely get someone who's trying to interpret the same guidance we are and whose answer is just a guess.

I do too (so don't bring me a full basket of bread when I'm at dinner at a table for one), but personally I don't have an issue not eating something because I truly don't like it or it's just mediocre (vs. I ordered more than I could possibly eat in the first place).

I'd say no, which probably why they specifically call out the testing requirement for full Panama Canal transits. But you have 2 months after the new policy takes effect to confirm with someone's actual experience. I have a similar itinerary planned in January and if the new rules are still in place by then do not plan on getting tested unless someone specifically reports they couldn't board without being tested.

I don't know. I didn't like the mac and cheese when it was on the original brunch menu (I thought it was in more of a white/ alfredo sauce than a cheese sauce) so never ordered it again. Certainly didn't think it was worth filling up on when I could save that room for dessert instead. Just offering a suggestion. Order it and try it, and if you don't like it don't it eat.

Then why post about waiting to get your order delivered until day 2? SMH