Jump to content

ShakyBeef

Members
  • Posts

    6,543
  • Joined

About Me

  • Location
    Eastern Shore of Maryland, USA
  • Interests
    reading, travel, the outdoors, being on the water, red wine, watercolour painting
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    So far: Celebrity, RCI, & NCL (in that order)
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Alaska (so far)

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

ShakyBeef's Achievements

5,000+ Club

5,000+ Club (4/15)

  1. Just off the Carnival Legend today, April 2nd. The title pretty much says it all, but since I've never been known for brevity, I'll expound. We were in one of our go-to Spirit Class cabins, Ocean Suite 8271. Normally, upon first setting up and loading up our room safe (after a thorough sanitizing inside and out with Clorox wipes) on Embarkation Day, I search all the nooks and crannies of the safe for anything left behind by previous guests. On at least half a dozen occasions, I have found something, usually a piece of jewelry, and always taken it promptly down to Guest Services to Lost & Found. This time, while sanitizing and unpacking the room, I was a little more hurried and must have missed this earring under the front inside ledge of the safe, under the door. So I didn't find it until this morning, when emptying and doing my usual (and very thorough) search of the safe just prior to evacuating the cabin. It was under the ledge, caught up against the hinge post of the door and took a bit of work to fish out. I took it down to Guest Services this morning and hopefully it will be reunited with its owner. Just in case that owner is you or someone you know, I thought it would be worth sharing here. And now for the obvious PSA: check your safes, y'all. Thoroughly. Lift that little mat, and run your fingers along all the interior edges, especially under that front ledge. Small items being left behind in there must be a pretty common occurrence, if my experience is anything by which to judge.
  2. There are also rental cars available. And group shuttle buses and vans, which are cheaper than the individual taxis but you have to wait for them to get a bus- or van-load, so if you're one of the first ones on the bus, you might be sitting there a while.
  3. I will never get in the public hot tubs on board a cruise ship. Gross, luke-warm people soup. The jetted bath tubs in our Suites, however, I feel OK with, but only after I run a sanitizing cycle with the bleach tablets I bring from home for this purpose. I have seen too much funk, filth, and trash left behind from previous guests in too many of our Carnival cabins over the years to trust that the Room Stewards are actually doing the sanitizing of the tub that is necessary every time. Once I have deemed the tub "clean," it is one of my DH's favourite parts of booking Suites. He takes his beer and his Room Service PB&J and relaxes in the tub for a couple hours at a time.ðŸĪŠ If they removed the jetted tubs from the Suites, DH might not let me book them anymore and we'd have to go back to Balconies.ðŸ˜Ļ ðŸĪĢ As for me, I don't bathe. I shower. But I prefer the tub with shower rather than just a shower. Also, the jetted tub was a fun 'vacation bath' for my DDs when they were little. They'd take their Barbies in there and play in the tub for hours.😄
  4. "I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, rest well and dream of large women". RIP, Andre.âĪïļ
  5. I'm sorry, I don't know if they still do. It's been many years since I bought CHEERS! Hopefully someone else here can answer.🙂
  6. Yes, exactly as lesters said, it is perfectly acceptable, allowed, and seemingly encouraged, since (although I guess they don't do this anymore since going to "virtual" bingo balls) they would invite a child up to check the balls at the beginning of a session and then give them a SOAS for their services. My then-7yo DD got her first SOAS for this. Take the kids and have fun. And GOOD LUCK!🙂
  7. Thank you. It gets to me to see the judgment coming from people that seem to feel superior for packing less. But their opinions will never change how I choose to do my vacation. The OP has been a member on CC since 2008, longer than most of us. They are not a first time cruiser looking for opinions on how much they pack. They asked a simple question about how much was allowed. And when they mentioned how much they pack, a few people thought it was appropriate to denigrate them for it. Although I fit what seems to be the common definition of an "overpacker," I don't consider it overpacking. I use almost everything I bring, don't ever regret bringing any of it, have plenty of space in my cabin for my luggage, am not breaking any rules in so doing, don't affect anybody else's cruise experience with my amount of luggage, and am happy to do it my way. Also, I pack considerably more 20-some cruises later than I did on my first cruise.😁 BTW, you are braver than I packing a whole suitcase of shoes. I spread my several pairs (usually about 13 for a 7-day cruise) over a few suitcases, with my favourites in my carry-on. If one suitcase were to go missing, and it be my suitcase full of shoes, I'd be devastated.ðŸ˜ąðŸĪĢ
  8. I hear ya and I appreciate that. I, too, have gotten fired up on these boards before (as maybe I am a bit, here). I don't think anyone was "attacking" here, but definitely passing uncalled for and rude judgments on others' packing styles when a simple question about luggage allowances was asked. Opinions will always be given here, and are not uncalled for, and can even be helpful. But for some to speak as if their way of doing a thing is the only sane way of doing it (and to insult the OP in the process) is just so irritating to me.
  9. That's your opinion. But thankfully, for those of us who apparently pack more than you, your opinion has absolutely no bearing on what we pack, how much we pack, and how many cases we are allowed to and will bring onboard. See above. Also, you can't PROMISE anything about what someone else may need on their vacation, unless you want to get into semantics about the word need. We don't really need a cruise or any thing we take on a cruise. But I'll take the risk of assuming you weren't going to take that ridiculous tack, but rather, meant that the OP would not end up using "that much stuff" on their cruise. And to this I say, you can't know this, let alone promise it. Nor can you tell them what they will regret. We are all different, with different feelings, priorities, preferences, and opinions. I, for example, am sure I would regret not bringing most of what I bring on a regular basis, if I were to adopt the light packing style that you and others here recommend. Also, there is plenty of room for that many suitcases in the cabins. Here I go assuming again, but I doubt that the whole family of five is staying in one cabin. I know from much personal experience that nine suitcases (four of which were carry-on size and nested inside the large cases) can fit perfectly well under a Carnival king sized bed. A suggestion, by its very nature, is not enforced. If it were, it wouldn't be called a suggestion. Conflation of policy and suggestion does not lend any credence to your point. Who are you or any of us to say how much is too much or too little for someone else to pack? Finally, to insult someone for how much they pack for their vacation is repugnant.
  10. Darn, no matter how many times I slammed the 'LIKE' button on this comment, it would only register once.😄 I wish I could 'like' it a hundred times plus a 'THANK YOU!' thrown in on top. The posts of those expressing their opinions about what too much luggage is and implying that a suggestion should be enforce were really getting to me. Thank you for saying much of what I was going to say in a clearer and more concise manner than I would have used!
  11. Yes, you're correct, it's true that it has been Carnival's business plan for many years.
  12. I'll never wear a lanyard. I find them unattractive and the sensation of one hanging around my neck unpleasant. During the day, I carry my S&S card as well as cash, lip balm, alcohol hand wipes, tissues, etc, in a wristlet. In the evenings, I switch to an evening bag.
  13. Another THANK YOU!😁 to you and Patti for another great review!
  14. Thanks, I hadn't read the contract recently. It's good that it's there, if that's the rule. But I think they should have it listed on their website in the Liquor & Beverage policy as well.
×
×
  • Create New...