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I suspect you are correct. The recipe and what they actually use in these days of cutbacks can be different things.

We currently avoid B2B these days because of covid. Covid is not that big a deal these days. We have taken six cruises since reopening with several of them last year. But on our September cruise we both came down with covid for the first time within a day or two of getting off the ship. Essentially we had a high fever for a day then felt tired for a couple of days and that was it. But lots of folks are coming back from cruises with covid and we would not want a hunk of our last leg of the B2B to be a drag or spent in quarantine. If you catch it on the ship chances are you won't show symptoms until the very end of the first week or shortly thereafter. So one week is fine, but you risk a rotten second leg on a B2B.

Ours always come about three days after returning. They send them to whatever email you have on file with them. So just wait a bit at this point and write down the names you want to recognize before you forget them.

You had rain in New Orleans? You lucky dog. That is probably the only rain in the state for days. It rained every day all summer then went completely dry.

Well and concisely put chengkp75.

When we get on the ship I generally put our keys in the safe and leave them there until the end of the cruise when I put them in my pants pocket. One time I put the keys in my backpack to go through security getting on the ship and apparently forgot to put them in the safe. When we left I was sitting in one of the waiting areas waiting for our zone to be called and suddenly realized I didn't have the car keys in my pocket. Moment of panic. I was sure the safe was empty. Scramble to look through everything. Found them in my backpack. Perhaps the same thing with them? But why they didn't immediately put them in their pocket I can only imagine. I'm sure a spouse is to blame.

You are the brave one, you will be sailing on Spirit.

I'm not going to even think about it. I will just avoid Spirit. Like I said, over 30 weeks of cruises and I have never seen a roach on a cruise.

Yep! That's all you need. And they tell you to take all those things even if you use Verifly.

I figure it either is or soon will be. That many in one cabin makes me think they are in the walls, ceiling etc. They could catch it early if they were willing to block off that part of the ship and do some heavy fumigation. But my guess is they have the rooms booked and are not going to cancel a bunch of folks. Instead they will probably do spot treatments with the roaches spreading out and away from the danger zone, until the treatment dissipates at which point they will be moving from the new spot treatment areas back to the newly safe areas - an endless cycle.

It was worth waiting for. Thanks for the warning! I won't be sailing on Spirit. We have over 30 cruises on Carnival and have never seen a roach on a ship - at least not the living creature kind.

Is the time you have spent trying to get Verifly set-up greater than 10 seconds per person? If so, you are better off not using it.

I'm salivating for the ugly 😁

Thank you for sharing with us. It has been great!

Well, that's a two edged sword. If she is attractive you feel flattered, if she is not attractive you start to wonder about yourself...

Sleep tight, sleep late.

He's probably referring to the fact the British Royal Family has deep German roots. Queen Victoria was the last monarch of the Royal House of Hanover. She married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, with whom she had nine children. And what became Germany (at one time or another) was made up of lots of small kingdoms with lots of people with royal titles that upper crust British could marry to become "royal." Since WW I made Germany unpopular, in 1917 George V specifically adopted Windsor, not only as the name of the ‘House’ or dynasty, but also as the surname of his family.

"Works" is a term subject to interpretation. If the call goes through but no one ever answers Carnival may well claim it "works" (much like the number to Guest Services) but most would disagree. Likely varies by ship.

"Competent" being the key word. How many financial advisers have told their clients to get out of stocks and bonds this year? I don't mean one who says "get out of this stock that has fallen 25% and buy this one that will be going down 20% with the rest of the market in the next six months."

So true!

Should a person announcing to the world when they are out of their cabin tell their cabin number?

I also think that would be a major flaw. I did a little searching and found this: https://www.carnival.com/~/media/CCLUS/Images/pdf/securityalertpdf.pdf It says you can dial 911, but then it also says "The following information is provided to you in accordance with the 2010 Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act." They have never provided this information to me - I had to dig deep to find it.

Wish I could help but we have never looked for the Chef's Table so I don't know.

We were on the cruise right after yours. I think your comment on the comedian being fired explains why we only had one comedian for the first three days. We also found the Glory to be in excellent condition. We sail her often and they did a two week wet dock in Freeport early this year and have continued to upgrade things. On our cruise after yours it was apparent they had resurfaced many of the table tops in the public ares and they were reupholstering the furniture on the Promenade a sitting area at a time when we were there. The Glory, at least, is a change from Carnival's past practice of fixing up a ship then doing no maintenance until it is a rust bucket. They are not only maintaining but constantly renewing that ship. The room safe thing is strange. They have been slowly replacing those card opened safes on Glory with keypad safes, but it has been at a snails pace. I think they wait until an old style breaks before they replace it with a keypad safe. We almost always stay on the same hallway when we sail Glory and we had though they had changed all the safes. But then we stayed in a cabin we had not been in before that was between two we had been in and it had a card open safe! The deck 3 dining area really is a mess since the galley blocks all ways forward from the dining room. But if you are willing to walk up one flight of stairs to deck 4 you can walk to the mid ship elevator bank. On deck four the first room forward of the aft elevators is the Ivory Bar. It is a very nice place that is seldom used. We sometimes go there to sit in silent luxury. The bar is only open for special occasions, but the room is wonderful and always open. Anyhow, if you walk through it there is an exit to a hallway on the starboard side that goes all the way to the mid ship elevators and the back entrance to the Golden dining room. Usually you the doors to the Golden dining room are open and you can walk all the way to the forward elevators.

You have a good point about the cruise industry avoiding excessively dangerous ports. But that is only partially true. They do dock in Baltimore, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York... 😁