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Ah no, the trash that have been having fights are NOT spending any money. Why do you think they are on Carnival. Instead, Carnival wants to blame the drink package and come out with some press release that says they are coming down on drinkers. Yeah, that will do it. Just look at what OP said about the kids on board. Remember when CHristine Duffy did that whole song and dance about behaving on cruises? One of the items was children 17 and under needed to be escorted by adult or in their rooms. Surely seems like they are failing in that regard. Funny, you take a higher price cruise from the likes of NCL and they offer UNLIMITED drinks and when was the last time you saw a video from a fight on NCL. ETA - Even on my Firenze cruise earlier this year, the colorful guests right next to us, were smoking weed right there on their balcony. I took pictures and went right to guest services and showed them the pics. Security comes up and asks them to not smoke in their room while the pot smoke pours out of the room. They remained on the cruise for the entirety.

Pretty much! I don't get it. We reach it this October then we have a December cruise. Our cruises next year are all on other lines.

I'll gladly take a stuffy Frenchman or Guinness swilling Brit over the trash Carnival has been having on their ships lately. My wife is dead-set on reaching Platinum this year. Which we will do in October. After that, I said we are switching to other lines. Thankfully RCL is bringing another ship to San Pedro. Wish NCL would offer a permanent ship.

We've sailed around the holidays for a number of cruises but this year will be our first that we are actually on the ship for Christmas. We're looking forward to it. I love Christmas with the family but I will not miss buying and decorating a tree, buying groceries for Christmas dinner, cooking Christmas dinner, cleaning the house for guests, cleaning the house after guests. We will miss our dog though. He loves pulling his treats and toys out of his stocking.

I think you can get a day pass to Margarita Ville for $50 for adults. Not sure on kids price. https://www.margaritavilleresorts.com/margaritaville-beach-resort-nassau

There are three things guaranteed in life....death, taxes and Panorama will arrive at the dock late Thanks for the review! On any Carnival ship, we generally always stay in the aft. Sadly on Firenze, the main lido is a bust so Carnival now has DJs and music in aft making even the back of the ship unbearable.

I know it sounds probably ridiculous but I would post that picture to John Heald's facebook page. There is NO denying that that is a bad mold problem and the fact that GS gave you the runaround for so long is deplorable.

Radiance

We saw them on Firenze. lol'd at their pricing.

Agreed. We will not sail Pano again as long as parking is directed offsite. Pre-covid, Carnival was set to build another parking garage onsite but I guess that is on-hold indefinitely. Lots of wasted land there with that dilapidated shopping area and parking lots that look to be just construction material storage. I would have thought the Port of Long Beach would have made something happen by now.

Meh, wife and I would still be sailing Inspiration and Imagination every month if they were both still in Long Beach.

Da fuq....nah, that's going to be a no from me dawg. Good thing that as I get older, Holland looks better and better every day.

Did we do this one yet? Says she did not post any information on the internet. Said some called her asking if she wanted an upgrade. Then she gave them money. Then cruise was cancelled. https://nypost.com/2024/07/19/us-news/scammer-cancels-unsuspecting-calif-familys-900-carnival-cruise-trip-just-days-before-ship-set-sail/

@Mike45LC Yes, Firenze guests get to use the parking garage.

Looks like OP and others will be happy. But not the cruise lines making the change, it's the government. https://www.travelpulse.com/news/cruise/greece-plans-to-limit-cruise-ships-at-popular-islands https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/greece-cruise-ship-cap-santorini-mykonos-b2563943.html

It has pro's and con's. The deal breaker for me and why we will probably NOT sale on it again is for the following reasons.... 1. The retractable roof is dumb. For just about the entire cruise it was closed making the main pool area very warm to the point of being miserable. The side areas (on 11) have nice seating but it's entirely closed in and there is zero air circulation. (Staff kept saying it was too windy to open roof up. 2. This ship should not have been assigned to CA. Small pool area pushes everyone to the back (aft) 3. The aft, while similar to Pano....Carnival now views it as necessary to have DJ music out there. The speakers are about a foot above your head and WAAAAAYYYY too loud to be enjoyable. You can't even hold a conversation. 4. Bars way to crowded. 5. Carnival clientele. Speakers on pool deck, the group next to us smoking weed on balcony. 6. Tried Serenity and while it's nice, there is NO breeze and hardly any shade. Got very hot even at sea. Worse during port. On the positive... 1. Great that the chicken place is open for bfast and lunch. 2. We thought the buffet was good. MDR was excellent. 3. Service, excellent. 4. Il Vaggio excellent. 5. Good new bars Since we are in San Diego, we really just cruise out of LB for quick getaways about once a month. We generally like Radiance. Since we cruise this itinerary so much, we always stay on the ship at port. We just want to relax. Turing the aft pool area into the new lido party area was frustrating for us. And the main pool area was a joke of heat, not many chairs and no breeze. If you're the type that likes to chill in your room or inside doing activities, you will probably be fine.

Whoops, double post.

I can echo this sentiment. Il Viaggio was excellent on Firenze. I can generally eat everything you put in front of me but I could not finish my dish. Of course I needed to save room for desert. The gelato cake was amazing but the tiramisu was....a bummer. *Pro tip, don't fill up on the amazing bread.

Was on the week after the inagural, week of May 6th, and we got on fairly quickly. I think it was a little after 11am.

We didn't check it out but I believe the MDR is not open. As far as I can remember though, most of your fast casual places are open, chicken shack, pizza, Guys, deli, La Strada grill and Tomodoro's (new Mexican food place with Italian stuff mixed in). We did not eat at La Strada.

I would imagine there are tons of loopholes. I belong to San Diego's largest credit union, they do not even offer MFA\2FA for their web banking. Doubt I would be successful in any suit against them.

It would not be hard for Carnival to implement any form of multi factor authentication for their website. When dealing with purchases of potentially thousands of dollars, I would welcome that change. But doing some googling this morning, it would seem that there are a great number of laws on the books that punish the "do-er" of computer fraud but I can't find anything that holds the company liable. https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-48000-computer-fraud

You can really add any liquor they have to any drink they have. My wife loves a chai tea latte with vodka first thing in the morning (on vacation lol)

A travel agent on /Cruise on Reddit explained it this way as she had seen it done with airline bookings.... The fraudster cancels the persons cruise, gets ahold of the cruiser via phone or email, then, posing as Carnival customer service, offers to rebook their cruise with a new credit card number to "confirm" the cruise. She indicated that fraudsters will also ask to have the cruise paid for with Visa gift cards, Apple pay cards etc. The travel agent had indicated that she'd seen it mostly with airlines tickets but was seeing it moving to other travel experiences. ETA: I talked to my wife about this who books all our trips. On our last cruise on Firenze, our traveling friends added us to their booking to ease speciality dinning reservations. I asked my wife, "do we get an email or anything notifying us of a change?". Wife said nothing is sent. IDK, seems to me that something should be sent if there is nothing to authenticate a user who can willy nilly modify your cruise.

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