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As stated in the terms copied from the Carnival claim form web page, is it true that you can only submit a claim form for a period of 48 hours after you book your cruise?

Lowest Price Guarantee terms and conditions: The Lowest Price Guarantee applies to the cruise fare only. The Lowest Price Guarantee protection will not apply to prevailing taxes, fees and port expenses and/or fuel supplement. Lower rates must be publicly advertised fares available to the general public and exclude group rates, membership programs, charters or other Travel Agent promotions not offered by Carnival to the general public, including but not limited to travel agent rebates. To submit a Lowest Price Guarantee claim, visit carnival.com online and complete all the information required on the Lowest Price Guarantee claim form. You will be asked to provide the lower rate amount and where the rate can be found. Lower rate must: i) be for the same ship, sail date, stateroom category and number of guests; and ii) be available for booking at the time Carnival reviews your completed Lowest Price Guarantee claim form. All Lowest Price Guarantee claim forms must be submitted online within 48 hours of booking your cruise and verified by Carnival in order to qualify for the onboard credit. The onboard credit is non-refundable, non-transferable and has no cash value. Any unused portion of the onboard credit will be forfeited. Lowest Price Guarantee program may be discontinued or changed at any time.

How late can you arrive at the dining room for ATD?

I posted this on another thread but thought it might fit here also:

I booked a B2B cruise in Feb. for the Glory in November. I booked as a solo in a 1A cabin. Just checked the prices on the cruises and the combined price drop was over $800. Called Carnival and now my bookings show the lower prices.

Has Carnival removed the single supplement?

I booked a B2B cruise in Feb. for the Glory in November. I booked as a solo in a 1A cabin. Just checked the prices on the cruises and the combined price drop was over $800. Called Carnival and now my bookings show the lower prices.;)

Has Carnival removed the single supplement?

I'm assuming your staying in a hotel the night before the cruise? Some hotels have a park and cruise special where they let you park your car in their lot while you are on your cruise.

Anybody else loved the mushrooms at Guy's?

On the last night of the first cruise, your cabin steward leaves you a letter (during the evening bed turndown) with all the instructions and he also gives you a customs form to fill out.

 

Basically, you meet down in the lobby at about 10:30 AM with all the other B2B cruisers. You sit in the lobby and chat from 10:30 until whenever the very last passenger finally leaves the ship. It's kind of fun to sit in the lobby and watch everyone leave the ship... and there's usually some kind of drama involved with tracking down the last few guests and getting them off the ship. Typically, they make increasingly urgent PA announcements as the morning goes on, letting the guests know that it is time to leave. At the end, when it's down to just the last few remaining guests, they start paging people by name over the PA system. It's kind of funny to observe.

 

Anyway, when the last guests finally leave, and only the crew and the B2B people are still onboard, a special crew member walks all the B2B people off the ship and down to customs. You all go through customs, and then when all the B2B people are done with customs you all are given new sail & sign cards and are escorted back on to the ship.

 

Being escorted on to the ship is kind of fun because you are able to see the cruise terminal crowded with people who are anxious to board... and they can all see you and I'm sure they wonder who you are and why it appears that you are walking on to the ship when (as far as they know) boarding hasn't begun yet.

 

The group of B2B people cross the gangway on to the ship, you ding in with your new sail & sign card, and you are free to go do whatever you want at that point. Typically, this is somewhere around 11:30 AM. Personally, I like to head to Guy's Burger Joint and be the first one served... but what you want to do on an empty ship is up to you. Just remember, boarding will begin minutes after the B2B people get onboard... so there will be people boarding and crowding in to the buffet and Guy's Burger Joint within about 10 minutes of when you get onboard. Make the most of your quiet time on an empty ship... it will not last long!

 

Regarding the customs form...

Remember that as far as US Customs is concerned, you are doing two completely independent cruises. So, when you fill out the form at the end of the first cruise, you declare anything you purchased that week... and when you fill out the form at the end of the second cruise, you DO NOT declare anything you purchased the FIRST week... only whatever you purchased the SECOND week. Even though you are carrying things off with you on the second week that you bought on the first week, you already declared them at the end of the first week. You don't declare them twice.

Thanks for all the info!!!

When we did our B2B, we met in the Lobby and a group of us were walked off the ship and over to customs. We turned in our customs declaration form, showed our passports and were escorted right back on board. They gave us our new sign and sail cards when we got off and took the S&S card from the first leg after we dinged off the ship.

 

Once back on board, I went back to our cabin and did laundry since we weren't platinum at that time.

 

 

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Are you permitted to keep your sign and sail card from the first leg?

We have done several back-to-backs with Carnival. In fact, we just got home last night from the latest... on Carnival Glory.

 

Try to find ships (like Carnival Glory) that do alternating itineraries rather than ships (like NCL's Norwegian Getaway) that just do the same itinerary over and over every week.

 

Princess makes it really easy to book B2Bs online yourself without the help of a Personal Vacation Planner or Travel Agent. On Princess.com when you do a search for cruises, it will not only show you the single itineraries but if the ship does alternating itineraries it will show those as a B2B, too. Carnival really needs to offer this feature on their web site. On Carnival, it's a lot trickier to determine if there are any cabins that are available to book for multiple weeks.

 

One trick that nobody has mentioned yet is that if you go to the gift shop on the last night of the first cruise, you can buy booze and take it with you... and have it to drink on your second cruise. Of course, I'm talking about when you do a B2B on the same ship, not switching ships.

 

Another thing I really like about B2Bs is that the swimming pools and jacuzzis are usually almost empty on the first afternoon of the second week. Most of the passengers who just got onboard have their swim suits packed in the luggage... which takes a few hours to be delivered. You already have your swim suit, since you've been onboard for a week already... so the pools and jacuzzis are all yours for at least the first few hours of the second cruise.

We have our first B2B scheduled on the Glory for this November, same cabin. How were thing handled at the end of the first week? Did you have to fill out a customs form after week one or just at the end of week two? Did you get a new sign and sail card? If yes, when does that happen? Thanks for this and any other info. you can share.

I have a B2B scheduled for November, after the first cruise how does the customs process work, do you have to fill out a customs form, do you have to take your passport with you?

Thanks for the info.

I will be on the Carnival Glory in November, one of the stops is Half Moon Cay. Do you tender to the island? Any other info. or suggestions about this island?

Thanks!!

Monkeys in St. Kitts!!