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14 hours ago, jasmine_cruise_yeah said:

I also got one today and was pretty excited! It's on the Magic in May. We were offered to move from a deck 7 balcony to a deck 9 balcony for $32. I liked the price but I wasn't crazy about the room choices so I think I'll pass on this one. 

I had no idea these upgrades (or upsells rather) gave you a choice of cabins you could pick from. I thought they just had 1 specific cabin to offer you and that's it. It's really nice to look at the deck plan, see all the available cabins being offered and be able to pick the one you want if you accept.

I almost went for the Panorama deck, but felt that was way too far up for me. 

15 hours ago, bakersdozen12 said:

Holy cow, I would never have given 6450 up! We sailed in the same room on the Conquest and to this day, it’s probably my favorite room. Yes, no sofa, but you have a lounge chair on your balcony. Who wants to sit on a sofa inside when you can be lounging outside?! And having two windows is awesome. Loved the extra sunlight. 

 

Oh well, I suspect you just made whomever is getting that room extremely happy. 😊

That's exactly the way I look at it too. I hope someone else is jumping up and down for snagging 6450 now. I was initially exited for getting it myself when I first booked, but the more time went on, the more I began to miss the sofa and the way it's laid out, the bed takes up almost all cabin space. And knowing me, I probably won't even be out on that balcony all that much. So let someone who will use it a lot get it. :)

I also love the location of the new cabin. It's perfect being right under Lido buffet and just 3 flights down dumps me right into the casino. 

29 minutes ago, Sillyjilly said:

when does your cruise leave?

 

1/27/19. If it doesn't show up by morning I guess i'll give them a call. I also have $50 in Cruise Cash purchased that's not showing anymore either. 

EDIT: They're all showing now. I logged out and back in my account and all my orders were displaying again in my Cruise Manager. Whew. 

1 minute ago, Sillyjilly said:

when does your cruise leave?

 

1/27/19. If it doesn't show up by morning I guess i'll give them a call. I also have $50 in Cruise Cash purchased that's not showing anymore either. 

9 minutes ago, Sillyjilly said:

 

It should show on your online reservation. Mine was changed on my paperwork, but I haven't taken the cruise yet. Leaving Saturday!

I just looked under "My Orders" in my online booking and only my Faster to the Fun is showing up. None of my Fun Shops orders are showing anymore and I recall they did before I took the upgrade. I have my e mails of all orders printed out just in case with the order numbers on them. 

Should I be worried or does it just take a while before they'll show up again in my account? 

1 hour ago, crusing48/51 said:

Congratulations, sounds like a good deal. Enjoy your cruise, and the sofa.😀

Thanks. I've been on cloud 9 ever since taking the upgrade! 

For those of you who did upgrades, did all your Fun Shop orders automatically go to the new cabin? I have water, vodka/club sodas and a cake ordered and hope it doesn't accidentally go to the old cabin. 

Just got my first e mail from Carnival saying "You qualify for a stateroom upgrade!" for my Liberty cruise. 

I had aft cabin with the long balcony #6450, and for months was weighing whether or not to change that since it doesn't have a sofa. (I know it sounds like a small thing, but I love having a sofa.) And I got the cabin as a casino rate...(solo with all tax/fees was just $680 total) and didn't want to chance losing that rate if I made any changes so I just left it. I haven't sailed in a balcony since 2001 so i'm not even sure if i'll make much use of that long balcony either. 

So just now, I got the e mail asking if i'd like to upgrade for $38 and it even gave me a choice of cabins on the deck plans to pick either on Verandah or Panaorama decks. There was a pretty good choice on each and I went with Verandah #8346 which is right next to middle elevators, 1 flight under Lido and 3 flights down right into casino. (2 of my favorite places) And I get my sofa! :)

After reading so many posts of people getting upgrade e mails and calls and feeling left out, I finally got mine and very happy with the choice. It comes out to $9.50/day for the upgrade and definitely lower than I would've paid for making changes. Let the long balcony go to someone who would make definite use of it. 

12 minutes ago, bakersdozen12 said:

 

Not the end of the world. I’ve just been waiting so long to book a 2020 cruise that at this point it feels like pure torture. 😊

Same here. I'm checking every day for Dec '20 to open up so I can get my favorite cabin before it's snatched up. I also like using the Easy Pay far out in advance so I can have crazy low monthly payments. 

I entertained the thought of booking the CA one that just opened up. A 4 day in an OV would only cost me $12.48/monthly with Easy Pay after the deposit....but I hate flying so will stick to waiting for the FL departures to open up. 

35 minutes ago, bakersdozen12 said:

With all due respect, the title of this thread is insanely misleading. I got all excited that they might finally have Caribbean itineraries released for July of 2020. But alas, it’s just two west coast ships that has been released (Panorama has been listed for awhile now).

 

Sigh...oh well. Hopefully this means that more will be released soon. 

Sorry if it caused you confusion. I like to keep thread titles short and to the point but I can see how it can be misleading to some. Unfortunately I can't edit it, otherwise i'd go back and insert the word "More" at the start of the title. 

Carnival website is now showing California sailings for late '20 and early '21. Mainly 3 & 4 days on Imagination and Inspiration. Hopefully that means Florida releases aren't far behind! 

The background really needs to be shaded rather than this glaring white. It's very hard on the eyes and until they do that, i'll have to view this site while in "night mode" setting. 

3 minutes ago, BlerkOne said:

 

Actually it's brilliance! Sorted alphabetically,

Carnival Radiance comes before

Royal Radiance

Actually, I just did a search of synonyms for the word "radiance" and what's interesting is that these are some of the words that show up for it:

Splendor

Glory

Ecstacy

Jubilance (variation of Jubilee)

So granted, it is a recurring theme with the names going back decades, so i'll correct myself when I say they were looking at RCCL for the name. I DO however wish they'd have chosen a stand alone name. One synonym of "radiance" listed as "Gleam" which I kinda like....Carnival Gleam! Though that may remind people too much of the old brand of toothpaste I guess. 

After a few hours navigating around the site, I overall don't mind the update. Did I like the old site better? Yes, but I can deal with this and I like that you can get instant notifications at the bottom of the screen for new replies and the handy "like/heart" button is nice. Also I can turn off all the unsightly signatures that I don't want to see which makes scrolling a breeze!

My only gripe, and it's a big one, is the bright white background which is too harsh behind the fonts. You need some contrast to alleviate eye strain. A grey background would do wonders here and I hope they add the choice to choose that in settings. 

Another gripe is that I can't unsubscribe by e mail to specific threads anymore. So I just unsubscribed to everything by e mail. 

There also seems to be no way to unsubscribe from a specific thread that you posted in. Usually in the e mail notification, at the bottom it would say "unsubscribe from this thread" and it's not there anymore. Is there no way to subscribe from some threads and not others anymore? All or nothing? 

Not too bad at all. Many others are also letting Carnival know on their home page the name stinks. I think "Sunset" would've been a much better choice. But whatever, if it floats your boat that's wonderful! 

29 minutes ago, rtkenmore said:

 

I did find where you can go in to settings and "turn off" signatures by default.  I agree, showing the full signature is crazy ridiculous when some people have such long signatures with all 134,598 cruises they've ever taken listed.

Thanks for this. I just found it and turned them off. No more signatures! Now if they only gave the posts more contrast over the hard white background and darker fonts i'll be happy with things. I do like the heart/like button and reply notifications that appear at the bottom of the screen (which can also be turned off if you don't want them.). Just please shade that white background!!

14 minutes ago, cruizinisthebest said:

highly doubt they looked to Royal for inspiration as the whole sun/radiance is the theme of the Sunshine class

Yeah, choosing the word Radiance was merely a coincidence. I bet they didn't even know RCCL was using it! 

Also some people's signatures can be so dang long that it needlessly expands the posts and lengthens pages which makes scrolling down more tedious. I liked when you needed to expand signatures if you wanted to see them in full. 

1 minute ago, shof515 said:

 

Carnival has the Carnival Liberty and Royal Caribbean has the Liberty of the Seas. Both similar names that could cause confusion but seems to be no issue for Carnival to use another Royal Caribbean name again. 

Even so...where's the creativity? Out of the endless supply of words to use, why copy what RCCL uses? It's just lazy imo. 

The white background and tiny fonts make it VERY difficult to read posts. 

I don't know why they choose a name that's already used by Royal Caribbean. I think it will only cause confusion. It's not like there's a shortage of other words to use. 

They didn't change. It did generate a new tag, because the small date in the corner indicates the print date, but it doesn't say anything about FTTF on it.

 

Maybe I need to try from another browser.

 

Becky

This EXACT thing happened to me last year. I purchased FTTF after checking in as well and my tags would still print without showing FTTF on it but it was showing as purchased in my Cruise Manager.

After much back and forth with Carnival, they admitted they couldn't "find" my FTTF purchase even though I provided them with the debit transaction #, and they could also see it in my Cruise Manager. It was most likely a computer glitch in their system.

Keep on top of it with Carnival if the tags still don't show. What they did for me was e mail me a letter specifically stating I had FTTF in case there were any issues while embarking or on board.

It turned out on boarding day my FTTF was in the system and I didn't even need the letter. But the luggage tags in my booking never wound up updating to show FTTF so I just kept that letter with me and had no issues.

Try this number again, making sure to clear your browser's cache and cookies before the attempt. If that does not work, try private browsing mode and a different browser.

I cleared cache and got same thing then tried it on my phone and again got the "session timed out" as soon as I entered all info. It's driving me bonkers so i'll just call and leave the headaches to them. Their website is just not user friendly. :(

No, you should be able to purchase pre-cruise items via the Cruise Planner. My guess is that you're trying to use a group reservation number, not your individual reservation number.

They changed my reservation number to a different "Club Royale" number when I applied a MyVegas OBC voucher to my booking a few months ago. The rep said from now on the res # would be that new one.

I've tried entering both res. numbers into the checkout page on Royal Gifts and while one number isn't even being recognized, the second one keeps giving me a "session timed out". It seems to me their whole website is wonky.

I'm going to just call Club Royale and if I could order everything I want over the phone with the rep, then so be it. Better safe than sorry. Both RCCL & Carnival have surprisingly outdated websites.

I believe that OBC is only available to spend pre-cruise in the cruise planner. If small bottles of vodka and mixers are available for your sailing, they would be in Royal Gifts and you would not have access to the OBC money.

I found the Royal Gifts part of the site and was able to add the liquor into my cart, but it didn't recognize my booking number. Looking at my printout of the reservation, I realize it was made through Club Royale.

Does that mean anything I want to buy for my cabin would have to go through them? I'll call them in the morning to ask. I recall having to call them when there was a price drop and RCCL saying only they were able to help me. So i'm guessing I have to do everything through them?