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21 hours ago, MeganGC1983 said:
New comedians…Also, they were checking Sail and Sign cards for age on questionable youth lol
First up, Ken Garr
Was anyone getting upset because they were or weren’t carded? 😜
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5 hours ago, Cruise5life said:
I’ll also be using Uber from LBC to port.
I’ve seen fairs as low as 18.00I’ll usually do a fake trip from the airport to the port on the same day and time and see what the prices are.
The Long Beach airport code is LBG, not LBC. $18 is cheap from LBC, but the drive from Germany may take a while😜. Not too important here, but really important scheduling your flight!
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18 hours ago, Itried4498 said:
There has to be a standard, as Carnival works with third parties to provide services long before the CD and sometimes captain is known. “Can you begin tendering for us at 8am, 9am or 10am, depending on what decision the CD and captain makes” just doesn’t fly.
In the dozens of times I’ve done these ports since 2001, PV has always been a one hour time change and Cabo no change.
What time the ship is on makes no difference to what local time the ship actually arrives at each port. That schedule doesn’t change as it is only dependent on distance and speed.
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5 hours ago, Itried4498 said:
I doubt this. I’ve done the so-called weeklong “Love Boat” route several dozen times since 2001 with several dozen CD on the Elation, Spirit, Splendor, Miracle and Panorama. The ship’s time always moves an hour forward when it serves PV. That was true even we took the Paradise, which subbed for the Splendor as a one-off.I have also done this 20+ times and I asked one of the CDs. That trip we had done 2 time changes to match with PV. The CD explained that it was a decision between he and the captain, what time changes and when to do them. They were trying the double change, but probably weren’t going to keep it, as it was too hard on the crew. As always, your mileage may vary.
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The decision to change times is up to the CD and the captain. Some do one change, some do both. You won’t know for sure until it happens. Or doesn’t.
Enjoy anyway.
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You all should realize that the main reason Carnival offers this is to find out which of their vendors are selling their tours independently. Most of Carnival’s contracts do not allow this and those vendors will be told to stop or lose their Carnival contract. The ones that don’t have it in their current contract will have it in their next one.
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I once had dinner at the steakhouse with an entertainment staff member. She had to get permission from the cruise director to do so. The one condition the CD had was that we tip beyond the included amount. That told me all I needed to know about the included tip. I tipped well.
Enjoy
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Maybe New York is the most self important city in the US.
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7 hours ago, Jayk59105 said:
Long beach terminal is slow and inefficient. Worst port ever
And then other times they’re extremely quick. What they aren’t, is consistent.
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7 hours ago, SDPadreFan said:
Haven't yet had a table with poor dining partners (knock on wood). We've had a couple of boring ones (RCCL), but never poor ones.
I’ve had to switch tables once for poor dinner partners. My mother and I did a southern Caribbean RCCL cruise out of San Juan Puerto Rico. There was some horrible weather that caused tons of flights to be delayed, including ours. We were supposed to arrive at noon. We got to the ship just in time for dinner. And we had late seating. We were seated at a 4 top with the other 2 seats empty. About 30 minutes later a couple comes in to take the other. They barely greet us and the female starts complaining to her husband that there aren’t as many activities that night as there are at Club Med. And she complained the whole rest of the meal.
We finished our meal, I looked at my mother and we immediately went to the desk to see about changing our table. As I approached, the Maitre D turned around saw me and said “Ron, so good to see you again.” Paul, he remembered me from a cruise 2 years before! I remembered him as well and I explained the situation, he gave a quick glance at the seating chart, and said “I’ve got just the table for you. See me tomorrow night”.
The next night, we were moved to a large table with a group of retired Southern Bell workers. We laughed and had so much fun at our table, other people were asking to move to it. Thanks Paul!
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7 hours ago, mz-s said:
How much plastic is wasted when Carnival throws away the literally thousands of photos they printed during the cruise?
None. Photos are on paper.
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4 hours ago, chengkp75 said:
There are no bathrooms, or places to vomit, and no AC in the boats.
Actually, the whole lifeboat will probably pretty quickly turn into a bathroom and place to vomit. AC will depend on the weather.
Sorry, I know it’s a serious subject, but I couldn’t resist.
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2 hours ago, chengkp75 said:
Ozone can be used to disinfect fruits and vegetables by killing bacteria on the surface of the fruit, but the main use in food storage is to react with ethylene. Ethylene is the VOC that plants give off that causes ripening. By having ozone react with ethylene (to produce CO2 and water), you delay the ripening. This is similar to what is done for some expensive fruits (mainly "stone" fruits like peaches and mangoes) when shipped in a refrigerated container. Instead of introducing ozone to prevent ripening, the entire atmosphere inside the container is removed, and replaced with 100% nitrogen. Without oxygen, the fruit cannot produce ethylene, and so will virtually never ripen.
The food covers are plastic, and are washed before each use. They are not disposable.
On the other end, suppliers to your local grocery store use ethylene gas to force fruits, especially bananas to ripen. Back when I worked at a grocery store, one of my coworkers accidentally ordered 120 boxes of ungassed bananas for the weekend. The buying public was not pleased.
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This year, about the same chance as winning tonight’s Powerball jackpot!
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Think cooler, not refrigerator. If you need it for something critical, like insulin, contact special needs.
enjoy
Ron
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17 minutes ago, DallasGuy75219 said:
If you think cruise crew are unionized, at least on the mass market lines, you clearly don't understand the labor dynamics of the mass market lines sailing foreign-flagged ships with crew from relatively poor foreign countries. Substantially all (if not all) of the crew are not unionized. While they work hard onboard, most make than they'd make at home.
The cruise lines exert a lot of power over the crew. Yes, in the current economic and COVID environment the cruise lines probably have to offer higher pay to attract enough foreign crew, but once onboard they're at the mercy of the cruise line to treat them fairly and uphold their end of their contract with the crew. There's not much stopping the cruiselines from adding more and more to their responsibilities without a corresponding increase in pay.(e.g., Carnival's room stewards). Complain too loudly, engage in a work slowdown, or fist refuse to perform the addrd responsibilities and you'll get fired and put off at the next port. Yhete's no EEOC to complain to. One of the crew's biggest fear is getting fired in the middle of a contract and having to pay for their own travel home.
They may not be unions like you recognize from the US but there are organizations that handle this. @chengkp75 would you care to comment? Most of the information I gave came via you.
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12 hours ago, BoozinCroozin said:
Increasing daily service fees. This clearly means: we are paying less of your cruise fare to wages and having you cover that difference with daily fees.
This is sort of incorrect. The base amount the cruise lines are paying to the workers hasn’t changed. It can’t change by their contracts with the unions. But that amount is just a fraction of their expected wages. Most of their expected wage comes from “tips” or as it’s now called the daily service charge (DSC). What has changed is how much those workers require to leave their homes for months at a time. Just like a lot of businesses, cruise lines are having trouble staffing their ships. So, again like a lot of businesses, they are finding it necessary to compensate their staff more to fill positions and retain people. So the DSC goes up. Either way, you, the consumer pay for it.
Personally, I have no issue with a higher DSC. Inflation is worldwide, and I think the service I get from the employees is well worth it. If I had more money, I might go on one of the lines with all services included, but their overall cost puts them out of my price range. Your mileage may vary.
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Puerto Rico is having a lot of power problems. They still haven’t recovered from Maria when they got hit again this year. They are experiencing rolling blackouts across large portions of the island. Right now may not be the best time to visit.
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5 hours ago, Oakman58 said:
I've never had trouble spending $2 bills. The cashier puts them under the cash drawer just like they do with $50's and $100's.
Wouldn't the ship's purser be able to turn them into $1 bills?
The most precious thing most of these employees have is time. They never have enough time for themselves. Having to take time out of their day to get a gift converted into something they can use negates the value of the gift.
Just my thoughts.
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For testing at the dock in Vancouver
https://bookings.covid-medical.ca/#/customer/conventioncentre
Enjoy
Ron
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4 hours ago, Jamman54 said:
The Queen Mary isn't going anywhere. They just started 5 million dollars of repairs to save her. She will be closed to the public until the repairs are completed.
Your right, it’s not going anywhere. It’s going to sink where it is. The engineer hired by the city of Long Beach to provide an outside look at the state of the QM found so many things wrong, the city did the only thing they could. They fired the engineer.
enjoy
Ron
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Always have a back up plan. There is always a chance of fog, and if the harbor closes, that’s it. No one goes in or out. I have been on a cruise that docked at 11:00 due to fog. Nobody made their early flights that day.
Enjoy
Ron
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On 1/12/2022 at 11:57 AM, kiwimum said:
Aloha deck has had additional air handlers installed in the balcony cabins used for quarantine.
@chengkp75 care to comment?
Guarantee room assignment
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I’ve done a lot of guarantees, traveling as a single. I have had my room assignment months before and I have had it assigned at the ship. It all depends on how the ship is selling. If the room location is important to you, you might choose to upgrade to an assigned room.