Bostwick girl

We are booked on Ecstacy (because our PVP told us to go ahead) for March 27.  We just got an email this evening they were closing our bookings while they transitioned them over to Spirit. Said they should be done by February 12 and we would receive our new room assignments.

Everything prepurchased would carry over as well as any on board credit. Can’t wait to see what they come up with!

We did the Magic 8 day to San Juan, St Maarten, St Kitts andGrand Turk on January 15. Of course no San Juan and St Kitts was replaced with Antigua.  In answer to your question, the first elegant night was the first sea day, so yes you can be elegant and watch the super bowl. They will probably show it on the big screen and a tv or two in the casino and red frog pub. That’s how they did the first play off games.

The violin group on Magic is something Electric Waves. They’re awesome! They did both a Queen and BeeGees tribute a couple weeks ago.

My friend asked John Heald yesterday when the website would be ready for bookings and he said by the end of the week. Patiently waiting!

37 minutes ago, Viajera7 said:

Was that an e-mail? I have 2 cruises on the Valor in March and I have not received anything.

You don’t receive gifts until you’re on board. You will have to go to Pixels to get your pin and other gift. 
 

I live in northeast Florida and I can promise you with the 30 mph gusts we’re having right now, there are some very rough seas out there right now!  Read yesterday several ships were unable to dock in the Bahamas yesterday because if the winds. Forecast for the coming week is for nor’easter like winds. Had to cancel our Monday 4 day from port canaveral because I tested positive twice yesterday, so in the end, glad I’m not going in this weather!

18 hours ago, cruisingguy007 said:

 

This! Every other option requires no testing and no ruined trip if you end up asymptomatic. You can drive/fly anywhere else and have a stress free vacation with zero "protocols". Cruising is too stressful and uncertain. 

So you’re asymptomatic and don’t know it, and there you are spreading it all around wherever you’re going. I’m glad cruiselines are testing even tho it just caused me to miss my upcoming Monday cruise because I tested positive twice yesterday with no symptoms. Really doesn’t upset me that I missed this cruise, just got off an 8 day last Sunday so I’m sure that’s where I got it. What does bother me not knowing I have it is all the places I’ve had to go to this past week even tho I was masked up. Was surprised my DH and neighbor who cruised with us were negative. Fortunately we are retired so not having to reschedule vacations. 
 

And to the point of other types of vacations, I don’t fly by choice, but DH can’t because of ear issues. We also could care less about going to theme parks and resorts for vacations. Cruising is the only type of vacation I enjoy.  To each his own tho.

Yes they do. We have used it 3 times now with no problem. It is an NAAT test which is listed under the acceptable tests on Carnival’s web site.

They say results within 24 hours, but we’ve usually gotten ours in one to two hours.

10 hours ago, WaukeeHawk said:

How long was your port time in Antigua?  When did they notify you of the port changes?

 

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I believe we were there around 9 am and left around 5:00. We got an email the night before the cruise about the changes. 

We were on Magic 8 day last week. San Juan was replaced with a sea day and St Kitts was replaced with Antigua. Was a great cruise!

Sundays forecast in NE Florida is pretty nasty! Big winter storm moving in up the east coast. Hope it doesn’t bother y’all too much! We’re leaving Saturday on Magic for an 8 day! This will be 4th time on Magic since August, but this particular cruise was originally scheduled just before Covid hit so hard. Was supposed to be on Radiance then got changed to Breeze and finally Magic! It will also finally be our Diamond! Looking forward to seeing that white card, lol. Been a long time coming.

Sounds like a great time! Do you know who your Maitre d is? When we were on our last cruise before pandemic, the Maitre d was Aaron. It was his first time, and he was great. Sure hope he was able to get back to Liberty. 
 

We went to Atlantis in Early November to go to the casino. We had to take our drivers license and our vaccine cards. The taxi took us to the beginning of the driveway at the front of the casino and let us out. There was a security guard at that point and he checked our paperwork and let us thru. Not sure if it’s changed since then or not.

I’d keep the room you have. $600 is not a great deal to me!

What about urgent care clinics? Looking like you’re going to do a port test or cancel. Hope you can find something!

I’m a Florida Gators girl, but sooo happy Georgia beat Alabama! That’s the only time you’ll hear me cheer for Georgia!  Absolutely cannot stand Nick Sabin! Y’all can talk all that smack about Big 12, PAC 10 or any other conference, but SEC is the BEST,  

Now that’s enough talk about football, let’s get back to cruising!

Sorry, but subject to change every day!

3 hours ago, Roscoe13 said:

They did not ask for ANY assessment whatsoever at the terminal. Sitting inside waiting for zone calls now. 

Did they check your temp and ask you a couple of health questions? If so, that’s the health assessment. If not, shame on them, that’s supposed to be mandatory. It’s the first thing that’s done when you enter the terminal at port canaveral!

Must have been you backing in when I was looking at the web cam earlier! Hopefully you can get off the ship for a while! When we were there the end of October, we had to take and show our vax cards to get into Atlantis.

Once was enough for us on Elation! The ship was ok, it’s an older ship and   Smaller. That didn’t bother us. But the lack of a sofa was just bad! We sailed not too long after the balcony rooms were added midship a couple of years ago, didn’t even think about not having a sofa in a balcony room. What a surprise! No sofa and not even a chair in our room or the other 2 couples rooms either! We ended up bringing one of the deck chairs in to have a place to sit! I’m too dang old to sit on a bed! So, no more Elation for us, nor Ecstacy, her sister ship. 
 

I had the credit card issue during check in when setting up my spending account, tried it 3 times then finally used another card and it went right thru. My friend had the same issue, but hers finally went thru. I may go back to see if I can change it before we sail in 2 weeks.

The Walgreens IDNow is an NAAT (I think that’s the acronym) test which is listed on Carnivals website. We’ve used them 2 times so far and plan on doing it again in January. And it’s free.

2 hours ago, cyclist_guy1 said:

youre going to want to bring a soft/foldable cooler. i believe the hard coolers are not allowed.

We always take a small hard cooler and have had no problems. Just has to be within the allowable size, I believe it is 12 x 12.

We went to Nassau on Magic In October. No health visa was required. What was required was a negative test within 2 days of arrival which in our case, we went to Nassau first so were under their threshold, if you wanted to get off the ship.  We went to Atlantis and the taxi let us out at the beginning of the driveway and we walked up just a bit to a security guard who checked our passports and Covid vaccination card before letting us in.

I’ve carried them on one of those little carts, and have also carried on top of my carryon. I do believe if security tore open my 12 pack and searched, I’d just leave it right there, no reason to do that other than they’re trying to be smart a… .  Different story if it looks like it’s been opened.  I have also put a 6 pack of cans in my small cooler, they open the cooler and look at contents and let it go. Don’t have problem with any of that anymore since we don’t drink anymore!