Constipated Cruiser

You can make payments if you choose. I generally book a year out and pay $100 every two weeks.

LSEA- really? You mean other people have been sick before not on a ship??? Thanks i did not know that was possible. I wonder if it had something to do with deck 6 being flooded with poop water but i suppose you will tell me that is safe and happens all the time.

 

If you are a well experienced cruiser you would be familiar with the forums. Why would i provide that? Oh so you can rip on other sick people and tell them they were sick before they boarded? You probably work for Carnival, see how many complaints were filed since you know it all.

A whole entire deck quarantined for poop water the week prior and yet you are the only one reporting it, based on "something you heard".

Yeah, please excuse our inability to just believe things of this nature with no factual evidence to support it other than "I heard". But if you like this site better as a Cruise National Enquirer, then so be it. :rolleyes:

We did this itinerary back in January. I'll just list what we did.

St. Thomas - AM: Taxi to Magens Bay Beach, PM: Stop at Mountain Top and walking/shopping Main Street and Havensight.

Barbados - beach day at The Boatyard

St. Lucia - Aanansi ATV excursion

St. Kitts - beach day at Carambola Beach Club.

St. Marteen - walking/water-taxi and shopping.

YEs, as long as it is a TSA-approved hole puncher.

$15 is probably a decent average. I would maybe even say $20 is fair given some of the tourist places such as Margaritaville, Senor Frogs, etc. tend to be higher in price than some of the local joints.

It's beginning - I have 3 for my April 2016 cruise.

Yep, you can pretty much carry any alcohol on in San Juan without even getting a blink from port employes. I'm sure it surprises some cruiser that have had the pleasuring of embarking out of other ports where port employees take out and shake every bottle.

Sometimes they orange tag the bag your alcohol is in, sometimes they don't, but easy to remove the tag between security and boarding the ship. No idea of why enforcement is so lax here - but no complaints either.

An earlier post in this thead said it had to be purchased on the 2nd day if going out of Charleston.

In Galveston, not Charleston.

So that is just beyond stupid of Carnival. If they go with March 2016, they will have to cancel already booked cruises and offer travel reimbursements/incentives to those versus just waiting a month and building a drydocking into the schedule that has not yet been released.

12:30 is about the norm for embarking in Baltimore. Keep in mind, the ship usually does not return until 8 AM or 9AM (depending on the itinerary and when on schedule, which it has been known to not be).

Keep checking. Usually excursions start getting uploaded in late April/May for the following year cruises.

Yep. Hit a $2,000 slot jackpot the day before the cruise ended. During the middle of the night on the final night, along with the room folio, someone was nice enough to slip a W2G form under my door. No taxes were withheld at time of winning.

It gets reported as income on your 1040. You can offset documented gambling losses if you take itemized deduction. If you take the standard deduction, you can not offset losses. You can not just offset losses and not report your winnings. If you do, you can more than likely expect a notice from the IRS a couple of years later with a tax due notice. The ship also sends a copy of the W2G to the IRS, so when they receive your tax return with no reported gambling winnings - red flag.

When we go to bed at night we always turn the tv on til room service arrives. It helps me sleep.

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Trying to pad your post count?

This thread makes me LOL. So many "theories"...:rolleyes:

Craps with a table full of Crappy shooters will kill your roll... wait till night to and you have a better chance for good shooters!

Hogwash. Only makes sense if all the dice setters show up at night and I'll willing to bet that number on a single cruise is very low to none considering that its not a well practiced item to start with. Also Carnival is known as being ****s for making you hit the back wall.

Like others have stated - no tax on purchase of the package while in embarkation port. It used to be when the program was first implemented but is no longer.

Just charged a port/sales tax on value of drinks order while still in state/port territory (generally between 6%-9% depending on port). Just to clarify, it is just charged when docked at US and US territory ports (San Juan, St. Thomas, etc.). I say that only because a couple people said "when at ports", so wanted to clarify to avoid confusion.

For the past couple of years, excursions for the following year usually start getting uploaded late April/May.

Not sure where this 120 days garbage comes from (I see it posted often). Probably one of those bad pieces of information that gets posted here and then quoted every time the question comes up. Pretty common around here.

One point is awarded for every $2.50 of coin-in on regular slots, and one point for every $5.00 of coin-in on video poker games.

http://www.oceanplayersclub.com/vip-services/faqs.aspx

Don't believe John , he is always wrong with dates he gives.

He tends to be more reliable than the information that gets posted on these forums.

I find it difficult to believe that he has the most negative reviews out there. There are three CD I can name that are absolutely horrible. Felipe is not boring at all. He actually is quite entertaining and I believe he does not make as many announcements as others.

WOOHOO!

Early YTD on the Valor was very slow for us a couple of weeks ago. We did steakhouse on Sunday. Did MDR Monday and Tuesday and gave up after that. We ended up doing Lido deck food options Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and hit up the steakhouse again Friday night. We surprisingly ended up really enjoying the Lido options (burritos, fish and chips, pizza, buffet) and did not feel bad about not going back to the MDR.

You should have a signal. All the coverage maps I have previously seen have the signal reaching as far south-east as Puerto Rico.

Here is a thread on it:

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2175109

 

 

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Weird - although someone did post in that thread that JH said on 3/3 that Match Play would be back. Maybe it was on some ships?

It has been reported that Match Play is no more

Since when? Just had it on Valor two weeks ago...

Does this also mean that the $5 match play is no longer offered with the classic cocktails?

I believe this still varies by ship. Not sure why it is not consistent fleet-wide.