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If people are willing to pay the current fares then RCCL doesn't think they are way overpriced. It is how the free market works. Basic economics.

Simple: They think people will still buy it at the new higher price no matter what Carnival is psying for it.

I have cameras that use rechargeable batteries. I simply buy a spare battery. Have both of them fully charged before leaving the ship. I have very rarely needed the backup battery and I take a lot of photographs.

Any reason why you couldn't "unstick them". If asked you can say you were just trying to be helpful.

I imagine ships operate like on shore resorts. They have a central stores which supplies the various venues. Someone goes to the central store and signs out what they need/taking. For example part of my job was to figure how much oj we would need until the next day or to get through the weekend. I would then get the items. In between if we ran out tough luck we were out until the next day.

Dream is my favorite show of any cruise I have ever been on. I tell people if you don't do anything else, see that show.

There are several reasons as mentioned above. Size of ship Nassau is an example of this. The larger ships have to dock at the outer berths. And I think St Thomas has this limitation Historically, some cruise lines have preference. Cozumel is an example of this. Carnival "controlled" on set of piers so other cruise lines have to use the set of piers further out. Then there is local decisions about when/where ships can dock

About the refinery. Back in the day when it was still operating periodically Carnival ships would have a port of call stop for St Croix listed in the on board "patter" for between midnight an 2am or there abouts. Obviously it wasn't for passegers but for the ship to take on fuel due to lower costs.

I simply say no, I am not interested. On all of the cruises I have been where I had a massage this has worked.

People keep on mentioning "treading" water. When I took swimming lesson when I was a youngster, they tought us how to tread water by moving arms and/or hands. They also taught us that you do not have to tread water. You can lay on your back or front and float. If you this you are burning a lot less energy than treading water. Also the more saline the water is the easier it is to float.Look up tours that go to the Dead Sea. One of the selling points is the ability to float because of the extremely high salinity of the water.

Was this policy before covid or post covid. On RCCL precovid sometime during the cruise the captain would announce that that they were sail some percentage of capacity, usually 105 percent but sometimes as 110 percent. Haven't sail on RCCL post covid so don't kow if they are announcing are not.

In regards to the 17 oz size, this is kind of quilivent to 500 ml. Many bottled waters of this size list the 500 ml more promentity than the ounces

There is also the lifeboat requirements. If you fill that space with cabins, there is just so much space to add lifeboats or life rafts to accomdate the additional passengers and the additional crew that services those cabins

The different cruise lines have adopted ideas from each other for years and years. This no different.

Well you are correct about a big problem. The person will eventually will be allowed to get back to the US. It may take several days to get it ironed out and perhaps going to another city that has an US embassy/consulate.

As someone above mentioned earlier. Costa did sail ship(s) out of North America. While still primary marketed to the European market, they did market to North America. I actually did some researh on them back then. The comments were very mixed. So took a pass. Not sure if things have changed over the years and if the carnivalization will further affect things

Give it a day or two. They probably did a fare update over the weekend.and may miss enterered some info. Alternatively call RCCL directly and talk to one of their agents

This topic comes up periodically. Carnival is not the only the cruises line that does this. Since this was instituted years ago, I have never heard of any issues even among competing non Carnival cruise lines.

At one time I had blocked matj2000. Maybe he slightly changed his screen name. Time to do it again

In regards to taxis. You might want to prebook a car service. On our last cruise that went out of Barcelona, we traveled with the my MIL. Each of us had one full sized luggage, along with my wife and my self having two carry ons. I think my MIL may have had one carryon. The car I ordered had enough room to accomadate all three of us along with the luggage. Plus it was nice to just look for a person carrying a sign with our name on it. We did this both way from the the Barcelona airport to our 3 day pre-cruise stay, then to the cruise ship. And then from the ship to our one day post cruise hotel stay. And then from the hotel to the airport.

Also on the last day or two of the first leg remind that room attendent that you are doing a back to back and your new room number.

And cheap compared to resort hotels, Disney World, etc Someone used the term "greedy" in what cruise lines charges. It is called supply/demand. Basic economics and the base of capitilization. If you don't like the price of the UDP don't buy it. If enough people don't buy it at the offered price they will lower it. For me before we made Diamond I would normally buy the package based on a cost analyst taking into account if it was a port intensive intenery. After making Diamond the equation change so don't buy it as often.

It is two bottles of wine per cabin. You can bring on canned sodas as long as they are smaller than 17 oz. I know that is an odd number but it is due to they allow you to bring bottled water and 17 oz is equilavant to 500 ml which is fairly common size for bottled water. Mind you, that wine, soda, water must be carried on by you and/or spouse. It can't be packed in checked luggage. At least a few years ago when they reinstituted everyone of age in the cabin must purchase the alchohic drinks package. However they would make exceptions. You have to call RCCL and give a reason. I did this a couple of times as a my is almost a non-drinker (at most on a 7 day cruise at most she only has two alchoholic drinks) The rest of your questions I can't answer, and also I may be corrected by people that have sailed post covid.

Yes that is correct. I usually buy the device package. My wife and myself switch between multiple devices. Android, Iphones, laptop, tablet etc. We just made sure that each of us only had one device connect at anyone time. One time, we bought a three device package, because on our in-laws child needed internet access for school purposes. It was cheaper for her parents for us to have a third device. They paid us back with them buying me glasses of wine until we were even. Note. I didn't keep track if we were actually even.

Yet another thread the devolves into a covid debate.