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We were booked on her inaugural cruise out of South Hampton. Transatlantic to Galveston. Hate that it was cancelled due to anticipated construction delays.

So, set time diners can't be seated at several alternative restaurants until around 7:45? I don't think that's correct.

On 3/30/2023 at 8:05 AM, PrincessArlena'sDad said:

My wife can't have dairy and likes the nut pods. The smallest container they come in is 11.2 oz, in milk like cartoons. 

 

Anyone have success or failure with this or similar? 

I'm not positive, but I don't believe the International nor the Coffee Mate have over 2% dairy. And that 2% is some kind of milk derivative.

On 3/29/2023 at 11:54 AM, serene56 said:

you will not be assigned until closer to sailing.   Id keep an eye on the price and if its the same price to pick my own-- id be picking my own 

You may be right, but I am satisfied with the extra money it cost to choose my location. If I wait, I may not have the opportunity to choose and may end up in a terrible location for 7 days. It's well worth it to me to choose. I've now got a great cabin location.

Just an update. Yes, I booked thru a casino offer. It only showed TBA, but I finally found a button that said 'another room'. I still don't know why all the categories were not shown without this step. To be sure, I called to pick a specific cabin. I was told the cabin would be about $330 more than the original TBA. I told him to book it. Then, the Carnival rep told me that my future cruise credit was figured incorrectly when I first booked and I was credited an additional amount equal to about $330. I therefore got my assigned cabin choice for about $10 less than the original TBA.

With Cheers for about $100 more, but probably wouldn't get my money's worth.

On 3/18/2023 at 1:00 PM, ray98 said:

 

If it is already showing sold out I would assume you are drastically overestimating the amount of cabins that were available when you started looking even if it was months ago.  Carnival knows they can get more $$$ by allowing people to pick their cabins, if they have the inventory to do so while still having a cushion to managing existing bookings they will do so.

Actually, I checked again today and it isn't sold out. Still showing balcony TBAs available. I have to assume that all the good locations were sold out a while back and they've just got a lot of really lousy balcony locations left on the ship and this is the only way to sell them.

Once again, I understand the risks of booking a TBA. That was not my point. In my many cruises with Carnival, I have not seen only TBAs available that many months out and continuing to be the only choice for those many months.

I would have gladly paid more to book a cabin location of my choice.

The bookings for this cruise are apparently now closed, which I assume means it is fully booked. However, I looked at my booking info and it shows twin beds with no way to edit. Another thing I've never seen. Is there a category of balcony with only twin beds?

On 3/14/2023 at 2:14 PM, kingston13 said:

It is likely because TAs book blocks of rooms and Carnival will assign them once they are released.

 

What about people like me that don't ever go thru a TA and would pay extra for an assigned cabin?

I know all about the risks of a TBA. I'm just wondering why they have apparently sold nothing but TBAs in this cabin category for many months and there are still TBAs available. Wouldn't that mean that there are a lot of balcony cabins available? If there were that many balcony cabins available, then why sell so many as TBAs?

We are going on Mardi Gras for the first time in August and could only find balcony cabins to be assigned (we booked months ago). We never book these assigned cabins because we are very particular about location, but decided we would go anyway and just accept the worst. After all these months, they are still showing only TBA balcony cabins. This just seems strange to me. Are they overbooking balconies? If they had enough TBA balconies to book for months, shouldn't they have had some cabin numbers we could choose?

On 1/7/2023 at 6:55 PM, marjenn said:

We had a 25% FCC (Future Cruise Credit) from our canceled Jubilee Transatlantic.  We were able to use that towards another cruise we booked recently.  I don't think it matters what the rate is.  We used our PVP with Carnival to get that applied.

Thanks. That's where we got ours, too.

We've never had future cruise credit, but now have 25%. Can we use it if we book a casino rate?

We sail this Saturday on Magic. Never been on a cruise during a Daylight Savings time change. Will the ship's time fall back an hour Sunday?

Haven't sailed on it since its inaugural cruise in 2011. Leaving on it next Saturday. Loved it in 2011.

14 Carnival cruises and heard one family arguing down the hall once.

Had fun! Liked them all!

Will be sailing on her in November. Last time was her inaugural cruise out of Venice in May 2011. We loved the ship then. Can't wait to sail her again.

Finally got mine to go thru (approved) by marking the same test type I had tried before. Then filled out my wife's exactly like mine and it was denied. I just marked the exactly the same thing again and sent it through again. It was approved! I think they have a lot of people checking the submissions and some may actually know what they  are doing.

1 minute ago, hapytobehr said:

I had the same issue when i uploaded my test.  I checked the wrong type of test on the app. (check how it's written on the actual results)  When I corrected it, it was fine. Make sure if its an antigen, you checked antigen and so on....

Thanks, but I tried all five options one at a time.

38 minutes ago, tallnthensome said:

Walk on with a print out on paper with test results. You don't need Verifly for anything if you don't want to use it.

 

 

 

I know, but would like to have everything done ahead of time. There's no excuse for Verifly to do this. They've got a copy of the test.

7 minutes ago, Ferry_Watcher said:

Could your tests today be too early for a cruise on Sunday?

Actually, it showed that the test could be uploaded anytime past 7 pm last night. But, anytime Thursday is acceptable for a Sunday embarkation. 

We are sailing Sunday and had our tests this morning. I have uploaded all other info into Verifly successfully and tried to upload our test results. We had molecular tests done at American Family Care where we have done so for the past two cruises (didn't use Verifly). I tried all the 5 test types (NAAT, PCR, LAMP, TMA and ANTIGEN) on the Verifly app because it kept telling me my submission was unacceptable because the test document didn't match my answer on the app. 

I called Carnival and they were no help (Verifly is independent).

What am I doing wrong? I know the test we took is acceptable.

I guess this is the last time I use this app.

We're also retired and on the 8/21 cruise, but our hybrid only gets a little under 40 mph. You would not want to know what we paid for our balcony. Let's just say I didn't even think, I just hit the button.

4 hours ago, iria64 said:

I saw a video on the keyhole game once... this game may be rigged even more than the claw game.  Basically, the machine is programmed to let 1 win per so many tries and no matter how good you are stopping the key you are always going to just miss.  There is no chance to these machines, if it is not ready to payout you will not win.

That is exactly why I don't play them. I never saw more than one person on the same cruise win anything on one.