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Just now, mz-s said:
I doubt that still works. I was told I would have to call in the morning, and this was on a few different cruises.
We were on the Celebration in April, called room service the night before and gave them our order.
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18 minutes ago, PaperSniper4 said:
Thanks. The breakfast hangers would be missed a lot by us. We are very regular in our wake up time, and we arise early, so on other cruise lines we always mark down the earliest time on the hangers; often writing in a time 10 minutes earlier. We rarely have to wait more than 5 minutes, which is nice. So on Carnival we'd need to call for coffee; and probably wait a long time....that's a big negative for us, although we are probably the exception. My sister never uses the hangers, but calls cabin service instead.
Doug
We called the night before and ordered breakfast room service with a planned time. It was really simple and well executed.
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27 minutes ago, c-leg5 said:
What do you mean by “it isn’t reopening” and “it is only available through Native Choice”? Do you mean they stop at a location on the lake but there are no facilities?Are there no water activities, food and drink? Or did you only do the excursion with family lunch and ruins?
Doesn’t really explain why Native Choice are not answering emails unless it is going into spam.
No idea why Native Choice isn’t responding. We did the excursion with the lunch and the lagoon. The resort had facilities and you could get kayaks, etc. As was referenced earlier, the resort website isn’t functioning. Some on the excursion with us had been to the resort previously and had been told that their bungalows and the resort as a standalone wasn’t reopening. It seemed Native Choice excursions were the only ones going there. It is a beautiful place. But the day we were there there were less than 10 visitors.
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We did an excursion with them in April. Did the Mayan lunch and the lagoon. It is gorgeous, but definitely take some water shoes. We ended up with only an hour there so no time for kayaking.
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We were just there with Native Choice. From what I understood, the resort itself isn't reopening. Seems to only be available through Native Choice. We did it along with the Mayan Village and lunch trip.
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Just back from Mr. Sanchos. They have a designated smoking area with tables at the back of the establishment. My husband loves smoking a cigar on the beach and this really detracted from his experience. They did have drinks served to them back there, but it's by the bathrooms so not a great location but well shaded.
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We were just there mid April, and they had a really nice selection of the carvings, shirts, and lots of other things. I did not check tequila and vanilla because I wasn't shopping for those.
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On 5/6/2023 at 4:38 PM, Jamman54 said:
Like I mentioned earlier, I did a little bar hopping tonight. First, I went to the Golden Jubilee and had a Cruiser. Then I went to Latitudes and had a couple of Pimm’s. After Patti left me there, I went and got a seat at the Alchemy Bar where I had a blast with Nikola and the people hanging out there. I think I had four or five Pain Reliefs.
The Pain Reliefs at Alchemy were so good!
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Went on Celebration mid-April, and this was our 7th Carnival cruise. I did not feel crowded at all. The pools on deck 8 and 16 in the front of the ship we always found chairs close to the pool. Pizza line was LONG the first night but better after that. Elevators can be a challenge. We learned to walk through the corridors to the aft elevators. But overall they have so many areas spread all over the ship, it's easily manageable!
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We were on the cruise right before yours. Agree completely with the Center Stage issues as well as the pool and elevators! The pools were ice cold, and the elevators a long wait.
Enjoyed all the dining options and the additional comedy venue!
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I was on this same cruise! Look forward to your review.
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This is our first cruise post Covid, and we are on the 4/16 cruise with late dining.
I've seen references in reviews that indicate late dining is locked out of reservations at the other restaurants until after a certain time, but can't find any info from Carnival about that.
Can anyone clarify for me what to expect? We look forward to trying the variety of restaurants outside of the MDR. We do have the steakhouse reserved for our last night.
Thanks!
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I've sailed on both classes of ship, and definitely prefer the Conquest class, but the Elation has 5 days rather than 4 day cruises.
The Liberty and Freedom seem basically the same, but having been on none of these, are there recommendations for which to choose?
TIA!
Lori
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Thanks so much for the feedback! The kids will all be 22 at the time of the cruise.
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Having to reschedule daughter’s college graduation British Isles cruise to next May. First time on Norwegian. We had a two bedroom suite on the Star. We will have my husband and me and my daughter and two friends. Would you recommend two club suite balcony rooms or the two bedroom suite in the haven? We are going to have quite a bit of credit. TIA!
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I'm using them in May for Belfast and read good things.
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We have booked Woodford Tours for our transfers to and from the cruise port. I was very pleased with their price and flexibility. They will give you a driver for the day to take you wherever you'd like to go and handle your luggage for much less than I anticipated.
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We really liked the Marriott Biscayne Bay. If you want to stay in Miami Beach, the Grand Beach Hotel is fabulous!
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The NCL site will not allow any odd number reservations at any of their restaurants. Any way around this? We are on a 14 day cruise. Do we need to make all reservations before boarding or are their generally slots once aboard.
TIA!
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On 8/2/2019 at 4:37 PM, austenfiend said:
We booked a tour through WOW Scotland - Lock Ness, Inverness and Outlander tour - sites: Invergordon and Cromarty Firth, Beauly, Inverness, Loch Ness, Highlands, Clava Cairns (Outlander), Culloden Battlefield, Highland Cows. This tour came highly recommended by someone here on Cruise Critic. We'll be there in September.
I'm looking at booking this tour. Were you pleased with it?
TIA!
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Another vote for King David Altournative Belize Services. We did the cave tubing with him and literally had the caves to ourselves and the ruins at AltunHa. One of our best days ever.
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On 10/25/2019 at 5:34 PM, Dorset cruise fan said:
I looked at the link for Dorset day tours and it covers all the main sites of our beautiful country. I don't know how old/mobile you are but Durdle door is quite a steep walk down from the car park, there are no view points unless you do the walk and it can be a trek back up. Nothing a person with normal level of fitness can't manage. I don't know how old your daughter is but as you are visiting in May I would highly recommend visiting the swannery at Abbotsbury as it is absolutely amazing when the cygnets are hatching and you can walk amongst them. For the WW2 geeks amongst us they also have a bouncing bomb there as they were tested on the fleet.
Read Moonfleet or On Chesil Beach for inspiration.
We have no major mobility issues, and our daughter and her friends are in the early 20s. Thanks for your feedback!
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3 minutes ago, John Bull said:
If, when, & under what terms Brexit happens, it'll make no significant difference to a US or any other non-UK or non-EU tourist travelling between the UK & France or any other EU country,
Brexit is mainly about international trade (tariffs, production standards, trade deals etc), also about long-term immigration, and probably some areas of co-operation eg deportation, intelligence-sharing (though I have little doubt protocols will remain broadly the same), jurisdiction & supremacy of the European Court, etc.
And yes, it's a confusing & frustrating situation for us Brits, both those of us who chose to Leave and those of us who chose to Remain. Not helped by time extensions and political games between politicians. I think politicians now occupy bottom spot in the unpopularity stakes below lawyers and real estate agents..
But even the most extreme Brexit will hardly be noticed by the foreign traveller.
It will make no difference to your rights to travel or immigration procedure - immigration will still be exactly the same for tourists.
Although currently in the EU, the UK (and the Irish Republic) are not in the Schengen no-borders agreement. Passports are currently required for all nationalities for travel to or from a Schengen country, and that will continue regardless of any Brexit result or terms.
It will not affect travel services like Eurostar, airplanes, ferries, or private travel
- other than perhaps delays at ferry ports (not cruise ships) for a week or two in the event of a short-notice "cliff-edge" Brexit if there's a back-log of trucks.
It might affect goods that you purchase.
Depending on the final Brexit outcome, we may see the return of "duty-free" goods on travel services between the UK and EU, similar to most duty-frees world-wide.
And VAT (sales tax) reclaims on expensive goods that you buy & take home will probably mean fling one set of papers for goods bought in the UK and another for goods bought in the EU.
Britain is very much open for business, and because of Brexit (whether the fact or the uncertainty of it) sterling gives very very good value at the moment - which is good for you
, not so good for us 
Brexit will not affect your plans to travel between the UK and the EU. and will have very little effect on Brits travelling to Europe or Europeans travelling to the UK
JB
Thanks for the insight!
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14 hours ago, trosebery said:
Le Havre - Booked Overlord Tours
I've been with Overlord and enjoyed the experience, particularly the stop in Bayeux. If you decide you want to head somewhere else, I've also enjoyed a day tour that visited Giverny (for Monet's garden) and Rouen from Le Havre.
Bruges - taking van into town to explore on our own
Tip: don't eat breakfast on the ship. Leave room for all the waffles and chocolate and etc! If you change your mind on Bruges, another interesting experience is a WWI Flanders tour (Passchendale, etc.)
Amsterdam - Anne Frank or Corrie Ten Boom house, canal cruise, explore
I've noticed other people have already mentioned the importance of pre-booking Anne Frank tickets ASAP and going with the smaller canal boats. Other things I enjoyed in Amsterdam are the Van Gogh Museum and (slightly outside the city) Zaanse Schans.
Edinburgh - Don't have this nailed down yet. We would like to go to Livingston Scotland (our surname), but open to suggestions.
I would also opt to stay in the city! My favourite thing was actually the Royal Yacht Britannia (which is on one of the HOHO loops, but we were with a tour that dropped us there.)
Invergordon - http://www.shorexcursions.co.uk/loch_ness_5.htm
I've done this. It was okay. I liked Urquhart. The gardens of Cawdor are better than the interiors.
Greenock/Glasgow - https://discoverscotlandtours.com/tours/loch-lomond-stirling-castle-trossachs-shore-excursion/#Details
I love the Trossachs and Stirling Castle is one of my favourites.
Belfast - Giant's Causeway and Titanic - possibly https://www.finnmccoolstours.com/belfast-titanic-and-giants-causeway-tour-from-dublin/
Do you have time to do all this on just a port stop? I'd pick EITHER the Antrim Coast (with the Giant's Causeway, Dark Hedges, Dunluce, and also the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, if you have advance tickets) OR the Titanic Museum and a Troubles tour of Belfast?
Liverpool - nothing has caught my fancy here. Not huge Beatles fans. Thinking a down day and just explore in town?
I'd also head to Wales, myself.
Dublin - Want to see Cliffs of Moher but wonder if we'd be better to take in the city
Cliffs of Moher are waaaay too far away to make the drive worth it. The city's great. My favourite sight was probably Trinity College with the student-led tour and the Book of Kells/Library exhibition. If you want to get out of the city, there are tours to the Hill of Tara and Newgrange in the Boyne Valley, a little north of Dublin. And there are tours to Powerscourt and Glendalough in the Wicklow mountains. (I've done all those options and enjoyed them.)
Corkh - Blarney/Kinsale - ditto
I enjoyed Blarney Castle more than Kinsale. The castle isn't much, but the grounds are lovely and I especially enjoyed the Rock Close.
Not been here yet!
Southhampton to London - considering transfer including stop at Windsor and/or Bath
I'm wondering if you want to do Stonehenge on the way back, which would also give you time to stop in Salisbury? Some return transfers visit Stonehenge + Salisbury + Windsor.
I don't know that I'd spend a day doing the transfer to Paris. I certainly wouldn't plan on it until I saw how Brexit shakes out!
So very helpful. Thank you!
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We sailed Celebration in April and overall loved her!
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