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  1. The China ship is based on the Carnival Vista Class. The Adora Magic City ship launched recently, with another Vista Class ship in 2025.
  2. When Carnival changed the Platinum level to days cruised, from 10 cruises got you Platinum status, Carnival experienced a strong spike in bookings as people were trying to secure their next level, which was grandfathered in for future years. I suspect that this will be done on the launch of a new plan. So price of bookings will increase for the grace period due to the limited supply of available cabins. Just a side note: I know a woman that became Platinum on the 10 cruises rule. Here current total number of days is around 65. So you see the power of the grace period capturing the next tier.
  3. If you haven’t heard Disney cruise lines just announced a major change to their loyalty program: Guests who have completed one eligible Disney cruise automatically qualify for Castaway Club membership. To remain in the program, Castaway Club Members must book or sail on at least one eligible cruise within 5 years of their last Disney voyage. There are lot Carnival cruisers that have status, but haven’t sail Carnival for many years. This would be a way to thin heard of Diamonds, Platinums and Golds that switched to other cruise lines or just stop cruising.
  4. Our first PVP we used was is 2010. Our personalities really clicked (I was an outside sales rep then, currently being retired). He is now an Elite PVP and he is extremely busy. He has done some magic for us a few times. Example: when Carnival appeared to be ready to start sailing during COVID I called him to see if he could get us on the Horizon for the July 4, 2021 sailing (Carnival’s first sailing out of Florida). The website was not letting you book because they had limited the booking to 50% occupancy. I called him and talked about the difficulties trying to book this cruise. He asked me for a list of cabins we were interested in. I gave him the cabin numbers based on my first choice. After about 20 minutes later he called me to tell us we were booked in our first choice cabin. We did this less than 10 days before sailing. What an exciting time. I met Christine Duffy on the cruise and told her about this experience. If you like your PVP, learn to work with them. The senior ones know a lot of people behind the scenes to you get things done.
  5. Same thing for us. $50 per person with remainder becoming FCC.
  6. I downloaded the app last Sunday. I blanked out all of my holdings and account number, leaving only the Carnival shares. I left my name on it as well as the date of my Monthly statement. I took a photograph of it using the app and on Wednesday I got the Verification from Stockperks and then submitted my cruise info Wednesday and on Friday I got my $100 OBC. Overall it was easy to do. If I did midweek I believe they would process my verification quicker. Why, I think most people do it on weekends and they were overly busy. By mid-week they are probably not as buried with request. At least that’s my guess.
  7. I received 9 of them. As I was deleting all of them I thought they must be getting desperate.
  8. We are on the same cruise. I thought about euros or dollars for tipping cruise staff. Since this is the last cruise before the Carnival Pride heads back to the states, US dollars would be appropriate. Maybe we will bump in to each other on board. We are flying our Saturday morning and have plans in Rome for Monday and Tuesday. We did a 14 day land vacation throughout Italy before Covid. So we are just visiting site that missed in 2019.
  9. I haven’t heard “Welcome Back Party” for a long time. The last time we went to that party was 2004 / 05. The party was open to all return cruisers. The ones we went to was in a night club. They were lots of fun!!!
  10. To my understanding the pier project must accommodate the Excel ship and its guests. But to handle more than one Excel ship would require a larger investment, which would include a major overhaul of its current facilities.
  11. True but HAL is owned by Carnival. Here are the cruise lines owned by Carnival corp AIDA, Carnival, Costa, Cunard, HAL, P&O, Princess, Seabourn. All of have access to HMC.
  12. HMC Pier will be done, but for now dollars are earmarked to complete Carnival Grand Port. This will show an immediate return on their investment, whereas HMC Pier will help lower operating cost, as well as increase passenger traffic.
  13. Here is a video of the ground breaking for the Carnival Grand Port.
  14. Here is the Site Plan of what it will look like. Remember this was drawn up before Covid so it may changed quite a bit since then. Note the Cabana areas on the right side and at the bottom left of the Site Plan.
  15. Kiel has a very large Dry Dock facility. If the have to used it and it’s available, the passengers will have to be transported (air or sea) back to Dover. How long of a dry dock, your guess is good as mine? Could the starboard azipod be severely damage from heavy vibrations and spinning around? If so, does any one have a free azipod hanging around. I thought I had one in garage, but my wife was tired of it hanging around so she sold on eBay.
  16. Someone said on our Facebook page that they called “Otto’s Tug and Tow Services”.
  17. We sailed on the first Pride cruise for Alaska this year on May 2nd, Embarkation was a total nightmare. We are platinum and in a suite. We, as well as other D&P cruisers, were mixed in with all other cruisers. It took us over an hour to board. Priority meant nothing to the port of seattle or carnival. Overall the cruise was good, but the the steak house was terrible. The wait staff was more interested to talk with the hotel director who was eating there, than the paying customer. Both of our steaks were hugely under cooked. We asked for help but they were not interested. We have been dining in the steak house every cruise for 10 cruises. It’s gone done hill so much we will not eat their on our Greece cruise later this year or the other 5 cruises we have booked next year.
  18. My 14 ships on a stick are now in a box. DW doesn’t want to display my Trivia trophies. It does go with our decor.
  19. I am wondering has anyone heard of someone not getting their passport back? I would think that would become a major issue for that person.
  20. They still have not begun boarding. This ship may not sail until after midnight.
  21. We have been in +30’ seas, and that looks very familiar. Not good memories.
  22. We were on the Spirit on May 2nd. The food was a strong C minus or a D plus. We ate at the Steak House (Nouveau Restaurant) and was hugely disappointing. We ordered our steaks to be medium, but both were rare almost mooing. Tried to get the waitress or staff to help fix the problem, but they were too busy flirting with a ships officer and his friends. We will never eat in that restaurant (on any Carnival ship) again.
  23. We just got back from our Alaska cruise on the Carnival Spirit. My PVP emailed me when the 2023 cruise were released. It was March 2021. If you don’t have a PVP get I one and assign them that task to contact you when 2025 is released.
  24. I had a similar problem. I got so frustrated I wrote everything up with supporting documents and emailed it to my PVP. I did not expect him to fix the problem, but he did forward my email to the right person to get this taken care of. One day later problem solved!
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