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Elegant night depends on the length of your cruise

Lemonade and Tea are free on Lido deck

Enjoy your cruise

I would not be against trying differant lines. But since we dont want to fly and it is an easy drive to Galveston for us it does limit us. When I book a cruise I do check RCl. For what We would pay for an inside state room on RCL. I find I can get a balcony on Carnival. We dont drink that much and dont eat at speciality restaurants. So carnival has all ways been the best value for us.

My brother and sister in law just got off their most recent cruise about 3 weeks ago, they had a balcony and choose morning service only BUT the steward turned down the bed, left the towel animal and fun times on the bed in the evening....I looks like it depends on the steward (dont know if makes a difference but they were on empress deck next to the suites, same hallway, they say the deck with the suites have the best stewards, maybe???).

We always heard that too but one of the best stewards

We had was on the freedom on deck 2 he came twice a day and kept our ice bucket full name he even gave us his card so we could call him if we had any problems

When we were in line waiting for pizza. A drunk girl in front of the line gave the poor guy making the pizza a very hard time even after getting her pizza. Everyone in the line that witnessed this apologized to him including us. It put a smile back on his face

Yep things happen. On our cruise in January our cruise was delayed for a day due to fog. Waited all day Saturday then had to find hotel. Didnt get to board Sunday untill after 7pm. Sure glad we had fttf as we got to skip long lines and board as soon as we had our sign and sail cards. We missed one port but had a wonderful cruise anyway.:D

We love it and get it for every cruise love getting on ship early and having cabin ready unpacked before muster.

VIP parking ispace even closer than park and cruise

Thanks everyone for the reassurances. I think we are going to enjoy it

My dh and I love a balcony found out that the hard way when our last cruise we had ov cabin was nice but we really missed the balcony. So when we booked our next cruise on the Freedom, I researched and found that the aft balcony I think it was 8450 had a larger aft so we booked it. After reading about that balcony the comments that there was no shade and no breeze so it gets hot we re-thought. We spend a lot of time on our balcony morning, afternoon and night. I researched again and upgraded to the aft wrap balcony 8455, I am thinking with the portion on the side if there is not shade in the back there should be shade and breeze, wind on the side. The cost was significantly more my dh hesitated to spend that much but we bit the bullet and booked it. So asking for opinions is the extra cost worth it? Thanks

Value received for dollars paid and home-port within driving distance.

Ditto and don't like the mega ships that sale from home port

We have not cruised out of Galveston so I don't know the situation there but have you factored in parking your vehicle while on the cruise??

In some ports there are stay n cruise rates at hotels where you pay for 1 night lodging and they let you leave your car there during the cruise. Otherwise you usually have to pay a per day charge at the cruise terminal if there is a parking lot there.

We only sail out of galveston because we can drive. There are several hotels that offer free parking during the cruise. Be sure to make a reservation as rooms go quick.

We aren't allowed our own hair dryers?!?

Yes you can. I brought mine and never had a problem

I agree with others once have balcony you wont go back. We did OV on last Cruise and really missed the balcony we decided we would never Cruise again with out one.

All ways worth it to us love boarding early and having access to our cabin eating and hanging out on our balcony

Call carnival to link your booking numbers together, you may be able to do that on line as well. Enjoy your cruise

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