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22 hours ago, Jay Bee said:

Thank you. With all the things that might not go smoothly--fog, delays at customs--I was concerned about scheduling a shared ride. And I don't want to spend a week worrying about whether or not we'll make it off on time. I'm taking your advice.

We hope it works out as well for you as it has for us in the past.  It really is as stress free as you can get.  The only way we can think of to make debark day any easier is to have Luggage Valet available.  🙂

I agree with George C.  We usually stay at the Hilton and have never regretted it.  They have a shuttle to the terminal for a nominal fee.

Have sailed from Galveston quite a few times.  In my opinion, the easiest and least stressful transportation from the pier to either Hobby or IAH is the cruise line transportation.  Getting from the airports to Galveston is another story.  Because we always get the the port at least a day early, the transportation offered by the cruise lines isn't really an option but there are a number of reliable shared ride shuttles.  Just Google it and pick the one that suits your fancy.

We have sailed from Galveston many times.  In my opinion, a taxi may be an option but a very expensive one.  There are a couple shared ride shuttles but then you need to judge what time you want to schedule.  Good luck with that.  My wife has been successful in doing that but there have been a couple times when things could very easily "gone south".  It is much easier and less stressful to simply use the cruise lines "shuttle" (bus).

Will United let you transfer a ticket from Delta?  Probably not.  Good luck.

Might want to reconsider your vacation options.  A cruise may not be your best choice at this time.

8 hours ago, ninjacat123 said:

I was asked "do you want to use your free drink on this" and I said yes.  This happened twice.

We had the same experience on the Dream a couple weeks ago.

2 hours ago, Scotto97 said:

Seems like they just need to pay people more to alleviant being short-staffed. (Like here in the states) Poor service levels will really hurt them in the future as people consider which type of vacation they are willing to pay for. 

Fact or not ------  Carnival is blaming their understaffing on the inability of the State Dept to process visas in a timely fashion.  I believe there is an adequate supply of potential employees.

On 6/3/2022 at 9:09 AM, d-train said:

 

Did you have to call in your order for breakfast? Or order on the TV?

Did not do either.  Walked up two decks to the buffet.  😞

Got off the Dream on the 5/29/2022.  No party.

22 hours ago, d-train said:

If you go here:

https://www.carnival.com/cruise-food/24-hour-room-service

 

Then scroll down - look under the picture of the plate of fruit.

Under "The details" is a link for the breakfast menu and the 24 hour menu.

They are just in blue text - click each for the menus with pricing.

Got off the Dream last Monday.  The "door hanger" is no longer an option.

Buffettfan225,

We, too, are "Parrotheads".  We have been able to attend a number of concerts, the majority of which have been in Frisco, TX.  My Bride had scored some GREAT tickets for his performance here in OKC but it was cancelled for Covid.  😞 This year we are coming in you direction to see him in LV in October.

Fins Up!!

We only sailed out of there once - not a good experience,

We have used both and, by a large margin, suggest Hobby.

We have done that at the Hilton and I believe San Luis Resort.

8 hours ago, Cruise, J.D. said:

We really like oceanview cabins. The price is usually not much more than an inside and you get some sunlight and visual interest from the window. The price jump from oceanview to balcony tends to be more substantial. A balcony is nice, but usually not worth the extra cost for us.

We absolutely agree.  Examples of our absolute favorites would be a cat 7 on the Celebrity Equinox on deck 3 mid ship or a cat 6B on Carnival Vista, also mid ship on deck 3.  

As a matter of fact, we had planned a B2B on the Equinox for 21 days last month.  We had carefully chosen our cabin many months in advance making sure we had the same cabin for both cruises. It was a cat 7 just aft of Guest Services.  Perfect (for us) cabin.  We had done a B2B about 2 years before on the Equinox and our cabin was one door down so we knew what we wanted.  We discovered 4 days prior to sailing that Celebrity had changed our cabin to one on deck 7 all the way aft.  We would not have accepted that cabin for 1 week so we darned sure weren't going to spend 3 weeks in it.  They would not consider any compromise so we cancelled both cruises.  

Our next 3 cruises are balconies but only because we could not find an OV we liked.

Crazy4themouse~~~~

I wonder if it will resemble cabin 6229?

On the "Ship" page, go all the way down and look at the right hand corner.  Click on "Cabin Check Tool" and follow instructions from there.  Immediately tells you what is above and below the cabin you chose.

During our one experience in an interior room, on a Carnival ship but we can't remember which one, the only real issue we had other than it is small, was there really wasn't anywhere to sit.  But, we never slept as well and we had a great cruise.  It is all what you make it, as you well know.

After 32 cruises we can still say that the worst cruise we have ever had was "Wonderful".

Keith & Sharon

In researching cabins I have found valuable info and photos on:

https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/

I subscribed for the expanded capabilities and have never regretted it.

Just as a point of clarification.  These health assessments are not necessarily Covid related.  We have been filling them out ever since our first cruise in 2007.  

Hope you are able to board without incident.

We regularly book a regular balcony but have also booked suites ( not often 🙂 ), OV ( which on some ships we absolutely prefer ), and on one Carnival cruise we did an interior cabin simply because we had never done it before.  On RCCL and Celebrity we prefer specific OV staterooms and should they not be available, we choose a different cruise.  We find cove balconies a matter of personal preference and my Bride chooses not to.  Other than that, if properly chosen, we find one balcony much like any other.  The interior stateroom as great if you are a late sleeper or if you truly spend little to no time in the cabin.  Personally, we found it too small and truly missed not having a sofa or love seat.  If you do your due diligence on picking a specific cabin, how can you go wrong - it's a cruise.  The worst cruise we have ever had was wonderful.  

We have not sailed on Carnival since Nov 2019.  I do remember we were asked about morning or evening service.  We responded "both" and that did not seem to be an issue.  Hopefully the additional gratuity made up for the extra effort.  The same situation presented itself on RCCL and Celebrity and our response was the same.  All without issue.

I believe this will answer your question:

https://help.goccl.com/app/answers/category/c/25

We have done this.  The cab driver was not a happy camper until I tipped him upon getting into the cab.  His smile returned and we were all happy.  

We are on a B2B on Independence OTS departing next Wednesday.  We are in the same balcony cabin for both.  As there is no way that I know of to "Royal Up" to the same cabin on both cruises, we do not consider the option.  Not sure if that is the good news or the bad news.  🙂 

Have B2B (8 & 6 day) booked in Nov 2021 - no survey