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We are still passengers, but most of us are on a round trip journey. The destination doesn't change our status.

Sorry your partner got ill, I hope they recover quickly. Fortunately you have travel insurance, but many lines would allow one to cancel all prepaid amenities this close to the cruise. Purchasers should definitely know the terms and conditions of their booking.

I would second Alchemy, they never disappoint.

I'll take your word for it because I didn't recognize the difference. I figure they are included fries with an item that is included in the fare.

Yes, they are covered and because they are covered I can't remember how much they are. When we have Cheers I don't look at price.

I like Ore Ida.

Based on my taste buds alone I've never met a Guy's fry that I haven't enjoyed in the moment. Yep!

I probably should have tried that part again, but I just paid it with my credit card and now I have some cruise cash to spend onboard (so it all works out).

We sailed immediately after the pandemic and a couple of times since. We've found things to be much the same. I have read about the fries being different but I guess my palate isn't educated enough to know the difference when there is one year between tastings.

Thanks, third time was the charm and all of the gift cards went through. Just a glitchy website I guess.

I just purchased $2000 worth of gift cards from AARP rewards. I currently have $2005 and change in my cart on the Carnival website (thanks to everyone on CC that helped point me in the right direction for that). It allowed me to enter three of the four gift cards, but it wouldn't apply the fourth one, and I'm not seeing an error message. Is there a limit on how many gift cards can be redeemed at one time? I can remove some things from my cart and do this in two transactions if I need to and I know that I can call if I need to but it is preferable to do just one transaction. Any hints or tips? (I found out the hard way that it won't let you use the gift card online if your purchase doesn't use all of the balance on the card. I tried to prepay tips with one and it wouldn't let me.)

They may be required to in order to check on the quality of the offerings as a double check of quality control standards.

May be the way they do it in Minnesota but here in Vermont the statute gives many examples of what lists potential jurors name's may be found: The clerk, in order to ascertain names of persons eligible as jurors, may consult the latest census enumeration; the latest published city, town, or village telephone or other directory; the listers’ records; the elections records; and any other general source of names. (b) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the Court Administrator may obtain the names, addresses, and dates of birth of persons that are contained in the records of the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Labor, the Department of Taxes, the Department of Health, and the Department for Children and Families. The Court Administrator may also obtain the names of voters from the Secretary of State.

Agree with the above. Abbreviations save time and they are used in a wide variety of forums, not just cruise critic. If we stop using pax does that mean we stop using AFAIK, OBC, DW, DH, EST, LAX, etc. and etc.?

And this brings up an important thing to remember about travel insurance (well, all insurance really)- you need to buy it before the covered event happens. If you buy the insurance after you've been summoned it doesn't work.

That's exactly why I used "may", since I didn't check every single policy (and I'm not sure that is really possible). I only checked 2, both at the lower cost end of the spectrum. (I also added "under certain circumstances" because one of the policies specified it happening within a certain number of days and the other one didn't, but each policy could be different in what conditions apply.)

Just looked and jury service is a reason for trip cancellation that may be covered under certain circumstances.

That's why we have voire dire, where the attorneys question each potential juror prior to trial to determine their fitness. I don't think anyone would claim that the jury system is a perfect one, too many examples of the flaws out there, but it is the best system we have. (As for the insurance angle, I've never even looked to see if jury service is a covered thing.) I know that in the two times I was called we were asked if we had any things coming up that would possibly interfere with a long trial, so the courts do take that into account. (And I wouldn't be surprised at all that somewhere someone was convicted because juror number 7 had a trip coming up and they only voted guilty so they could get end the process early and make their trip.)

Not sure how things are where you are, but there are laws about many other little things that we are expected to adhere to and if we don't they can be enforced (keeping our property presentable, obeying traffic rules, meeting vehicle inspection requirements, properly disposing of our trash the approved way, etc. etc.). It's the little things that count in society and we are all expected to comply. In a police state they throw you hindend in jail for non-compliance. Here, you may face a fine IF someone in authority decides to make an issue of it. Since I comply with the law I don't have to worry about whether you are on my jury or not. 😉

We had a First Class mess on the USS Eisenhower and we took our food there after going through the regular chow line. We did have some geedunk (snacks) available that was purchased from our dues, as I recall.

Living in a society means that we have laws and sometimes force needs to be used to enforce them. In my state the force applied for not answering a jury duty summons is a fine of up to $200.

If you are able to, without losing a lot, it might be best to just cancel the cruise. I doubt that it will get any better and the only thing that might get their attention is money going out of the door.

Thanks for the 411!

Where does AARP hide the gift cards? I searched the site several times with no luck.

The judge told us that the law gave him the authority to send the bailiff out onto the street and impress passerby into jury service if the need arose, which is the end result of enough citizens evading the summons. I heard one comedian say that he felt bad for criminal defendants, because their fate lay in the hands of 12 people not smart enough to get out of jury duty.