Brittanynichole

On 5/5/2020 at 12:02 AM, SRQMom said:

 Our cruise was March 13th and still no refund.  We got an email from Carnival saying they "processed" our refund (almost $2,000 since we had two cabins) back in March.  We got the refund for the taxes, port fees etc (roughly $380 for the two cabins) two days later, but still waiting for the $2,000.  I've called and the rep just said they had no idea when it would be back on my card.  It's comforting to know some refunds are coming in, but definitely not in the order they were cancelled.  That is confusing.  Crossing fingers ours is soon because we are like most people and could use the money.  Thanks for the update. 

Yeah ours was March 21st and we haven't received any refund either. I had purchased our drink package and specialty dining for a total of $1005 on top of our cruise price and haven't received that either. 

I’m not sure if anyone posted this yet. 
 

https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-02-20-intl-hnk/h_8c36b6b47f64a43dfe3ad31e8bed9929

20th case in California recently returned from a cruise that went to Mexico. 

1 hour ago, DB2VA said:

 I thought if you canceled so close to the sailing date you would lose all your money.. 

You have until 14 days before to cancel and get back 25% so we have until this Thursday.

11 minutes ago, SeaHunt said:

 

The Dominican Republic denied the British Fred Olson ship "Braemar" from docking at the end of their 14 day cruise because of illness onboard, and they had to scramble to find a port that would accept them  (BTW on ship tracking it looks like they ended up going to St Maarten).

 

I can imagine all the people waiting in the DR who were supposed to be on the next cruise are unhappy too:

 

http://www.startribune.com/virus-fears-keep-hundreds-of-cruise-passengers-at-sea/568346372/?refresh=true

 

 

Pretty sure there’s a suspected case there now too (St Maarten)

7 minutes ago, hawkeye93 said:

Mine is May. As I’ve said a million times on these boards, I’m not concerned one iota about contracting the virus. My family and i are healthy and my job isn’t in the medical field nor do I have an elderly or ill family member I provide care for. My concern is getting quarantined on a ship and also having port closures. I’m one of those that cruises equally for ports AND the ship itself. I didn’t purchase the 75% cancel for any reason so my only help is canceling prior to day 56. I’ve got about 2 weeks until then and In the meantime I’m trying to stay on top of the CDC, state and local reports and be as informed as possible. All I can do at this point is wait and see.


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That’s my concern too. My fear is being a carrier with no symptoms and passing it to people who can’t handle it. I’m worried about being quarantined. And lastly I’m worried about it being a cruise to no where. I love cruises but I do rely on ports to be able to walk around as I can start to get sea sick. It hasn’t been too bad but I’ve also had ports to go out on. I guess it’s less about myself getting actually sick but mostly about the other ripple effects that may happen!

Have a cruise on the Breeze 3/21. One of the stops is the Dominican Republic who just apparently confirmed its first case. 
 

By this point I think we are gonna cancel for future cruise credit or else we would lose everything but 25%. 😩 

I’m not sure if anyone will know. We have a cruise coming up March 21 and we are throwing around the idea or whether or not to cancel. My question is with Carnivals insurance the 75% we get back in cruise credit is that for the straight fare or the total we paid? I know if we cancel outright we get 25% of the fare refunded but what happens to the gratuities, taxes, etc that we paid? Do we get that completely refunded back to us? 
 

thanks for any help! I plan to call during my lunch as well if no one knew exactly. 

1 hour ago, bury me at sea said:

 

Ouch!  You aren't allowed to change it?

Nope, they will not let us change it as it’s after final payment and a casino offer. The offer was originally on an old VIP number (they created two for me for some reason) so I got emailed the offer that’s when I first saw it. They said that number should have been deleted and I should have never gotten it so they gave us $600 OBC which was nice. However when they combined my VIP numbers my current number still has this deal. We paid $3200 (with vacation protection and tips) for a balcony and I can get the same thing for $1500 with vacation protection and tips under my number. What a difference!!

Our March cruise has kept going up slowly under my husbands VIP code. Through mine however there’s a deal making it $1800 cheaper. Hard pill to swallow there!! We booked under his casino offer. 🥺

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So there was a ton of extra things that happened because they created a new number for me so I had two going on and received the offer on my old number. They said that the number should have been deleted and we should have never gotten the offer in the first place. They merged it with my new number so I have the appropriate points and gave us $600 OBC and free drinks in the casino (which we have the drink package). It was my husband who spent the two hours on the phone with him so not exactly sure how it went down. It’s not the deal that I hoped for but I would have understood (albeit upset seeing how much I could have save) if they did nothing at all. 

I don’t really know how to word the question correctly I’m sorry!

We currently booked our cruise in March (fingers crossed) under my husbands VIP number however I got an email for me and booking with my number gets us a deal that is $1800 cheaper with $100 OBC!! Can they switch that for us? Are we just out of luck? Thank you! 

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We were just deciding to purchase Cheers or not for our 7 day cruise. (Which we did) We don't drink a ton but I can see hitting $55 during a 12 hour day. We also don't really drink on port so that is money saved for us. We don't drink a ton but like iced coffee and energy drinks so two of those a day. A drink in the morning, drinking in the afternoon, and 2-3 glasses of wine in the evening I think we are about breaking evening and I'm sure on sea days it may be a couple drinks in the afternoon. We aren't the type of people who will worry about making our money back but we are definitely the type who will be calculating what we are spending every time we purchase drinks if we didn't purchase the package. We aren't drinkers while not on vacation but we like to not worry and feel like we can indulge and drink on vacation and try cool drinks I would never ever think about ordering not on a ship. Haha.

Well my husband told me he was calling to upgrade us to OV and surprised me with balcony instead haha. So we get to keep our deck 8!

We are leaving on Victory in a few weeks and last minute we booked an interior room on deck 8. We were thinking of seeing if we can pay to upgrade to oceanview but not wondering if it’s fine for interior since we will be closer to the action on deck 8. We have never stayed interior before. We do like to spend time relaxing in the room. Is an interior too crowded? Does the lack of couch suck? Thanks for any help!

Just now, kctwinmommy said:

 

Yeah, I was looking at 2021 dates by mistake.

I looked April 2020 Horizon 3 guest in interior room prices were $771, $771, $476. 

1 minute ago, kctwinmommy said:

Which cruise/itinerary are you looking at? I'm trying to see what I get when I put in 3 people, on Horizon, for a couple of different April cruises and they are coming up with like $169 for the 3rd person.

I was gonna ask the same question. My price has third person being around that same price and inside first and second person are $750~ after fees. 

Yes they do. It's linked the card and you get a sticker.

I will say this as two people who can definitely hold their own drinking that we have always gotten cheers and besides maybe our first cruise of power drinking we never feel we get our money’s worth but I also felt the guilt that I had to get alcohol because we paid $700+ for the package. It was just always hard to hit on port days because we also drank at the port, etc. We are going on a short cruise and aren’t getting the package the first time so we will see if I’m crazy. I do like the peace of mind of paying a number and then not worrying however. 

So just the other side of things, everyone is right in saying financially it’s a great deal! But will you be drinking all the drinks/alcohol/coffee/energy drinks because you want to or because you feel like you need to because you already paid x amount. If you want to, go for it!! It’s great to already know your total for the end of the cruise. 

I was on the Vista and got off today. I’m not sure what the problem was however you could tell they were hauling butt to get back to the port for whatever reason. They started letting us off the boat before 7am today too.

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Are you able to price match special offers? We have price guarantee but didn't know if we could PM the casino offer we received for the free Fun Chips.

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I was kind of surprised we would find any sort of sale seeing as we are going through Spring Break (and I'm still new enough to cruising that I don't really know completely what to expect, hah) but I put in a price protection form and we got $80 off our total for both cabins and $30 OBC for both! So exciting!

Also, thanks for posting about this because I hadn't checked for about a week about any sort of sale until I read this!