WindsorFred

They don't have to do anything for the first leg. They do seem to be bumping people up if they are on a B2B, but again. They don't have too.

 

Hope we get bumped up as so many others have been.

update: in going through manage my cruise, my first leg baggage and boarding passes say Priority. I called CCL and they confirmed I'm Platinum on the first leg as well. They cancelled my FTTF and refunded my $59. Sometimes, things just work out

 

Wow. Were your cruises linked?

Are your cruises linked? I know if you book them online,the cruises aren't automatically linked and might cause an issue with getting pre cruise credit for the second cruise.

 

Will call them today. Thanks.

When you pull up your luggage tags do they show FTTF? Priority? That is better proof than any policy you can quote.

 

Both sets show us as Gold. There is a "P" on the luggage tags for both legs, not sure what that means.

We are doing a B2B this January. Called Carnival to ask if we would be Platinum on the first leg even though technically we won't have the required # of days till the second leg. They told me that we won't be Platinum till the second leg? Thought that I had read here on CC that we would be Platinum on the first leg also. Anyone else experienced this and what happened to you. Is there an official policy on their website that I can quote? Thanks.

We have stayed close to elevators and even had an extended balcony on the Miracle that was behind the elevators and have never had a problem with noise from the elevators. We have heard noise from musicians in the lobby when the atrium/elevator area was open to our floor.

 

Same for us. We actually prefer midship and just off the elevator lobby and have never had a serious problem with noise.

When you have to fly any distance staying on a boat for another week really is good judgement. Airline tickets are so expensive these days.

 

Totally agree.

Personally I think the new way is more fair. Back in the day, people could book 10 three-day cruises and hit Platinum. Now everyone has to meet the same criteria.

 

I have to agree. As someone who cruises once a year, usually for 8 days or better, it seems to make more sense to allow points per day rather than per cruise. Just my opinion.

[quote name='Canadian_J']In our experience, we've always been able to walk right by the "confiscation table". Like others have said: the screeners don't communicate with the people at the tables, the table is never very close to the screening, and the people at the table never seem to be paying much attention.[/QUOTE]

Also good to know.

[quote name='ImANewfie']for someone who really wanted to have alcohol for the second leg, of course this would work. Your friends make the purchase, the leave with the alcohol because they got off ship in the morning. Once you leave, you cover their costs with cash and they hand you the bag. Simple

what i find even MORE simple is, the screening when you get on in ports of call. The screener will say please put alcohol at table to be picked up at end of cruise. The table is ALWAYS far removed from the screener, they do not ever have anyone enforcing that you actually go to the table, the screener is busy looking at the monitor screening others, and the lady or the gent at the table never questions anyone, half time is doing little to nothing, and its so simple to walk up over the stairs with your purchase. Simple

Please take alcohol over to table
ok
take your bag, walk past table if you have to but usually its not even in the path of walking anywhere
go up first flight of stairs for elevator if necessary

if they truly wanted to enforce this i believe they would have a second person between screener and table, to ensure you actually DO go over there.

I know people who have purchased wine / alcohol in every port for years, and years, doing as explained above, and not once, ever, were they stopped questioned or even looked at.[/QUOTE]

Might work.

On our last B2B cruise we were able to purchase duty free on board and have it delivered on the last night of leg 1, so we had a nice stocked bar for leg 2. I'd heard rumours that this was going to be changing. Does anyone have any recent experiences with this? I know liquor is picked up on debarkation morning now, rather than the night before. But haven't heard much about whether or not B2B guests are getting flagged for this now. Obviously this was a big benefit of doing B2B!

 

There is a thread on this. Seems that they now flag you as B2B and you don't get it on the first leg anymore.

which sailing will you be on? I'm on the 1/9/16 sailing on conquest!!

 

See you onboard. That's our first leg.

[quote name='tandemcruzr']Us too, but they recently changed the rules. :([/QUOTE]

As of July 2015.

[quote name='absolutonrox']This is something that is highly personal, so to stay they "may as well stop selling liquor entirely" is a bit harsh. DW and I were just on Pride in August. We purchased 4 bottles for our home bar and had no issue picking them up the morning of debarkation. Maybe we got lucky, but if memory serves we didn't wait more than 5 minutes in line. We woke up, went to the buffet for breakfast, stopped in Butterflies (I think this is where they distributed it on Pride, but I'm not 100%) to pick up our bottles and went back to the room. We had FTTF and having to pick up liquor the morning we left still did not keep us from debarking with the rest of the FTTF/priority debarkation crowd.[/QUOTE]

Good to know.

Are you able to take the liquor back to your cabin to pack in suitcases?

 

If you are doing self-assist and don't put your bags out the last night for pick-up.

It seems to me that they may as well stop selling liquor entirely. I can't imagine that the savings on a couple of bottles are worth standing in line at the end of your cruise, not to mention the weight in a suitcase. The only time that I've ever bought liquor on a cruise was a B2B. There's no way, even when we sail out of Baltimore and drive, that I'm waiting in a line to pick-up booze that I could save at most ten dollars a bottle on.

 

Same with us.

Glad to help set the record straight.

By the way.....when trying to collect at the end of our B2B, our packages were not there for pick up. They were still locked up by Security somewhere. Had to find an officer with the key. Took 2 trips and 40 minutes.

 

Wow!

Just returned home from our B2B Conquest 9/13 & 9/21. We bought Vodka both on board & at port on the 8 day 9/13 leg. We were told to pick it up the last morning of the cruise 6-8:30 am in the dining rm. Went at 8 am and it was not available for pick up. It was being "held" in security until the end of our 2nd leg.

The last day of our b2b we again went to the dining room for pick up.

 

Finally. Thanks especially as we will be on the Conquest also.

The official response from John Heald and the Carnival rep I talked to is "No, you can not get your liquor at the end of the first leg of a B2B cruise." You will get it at the end of your B2B cruises.

 

The unofficial answer is it may work sometimes on some ships. It doesn't hurt to try. The worst thing that will happen is you will have the liquor to take home.

 

If you want to hear Carnival say, "You can pick up your liquor at the end of the first leg and drink it on the second leg" that is not going to happen.

 

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The official response from John Heald and the Carnival rep I talked to is "No, you can not get your liquor at the end of the first leg of a B2B cruise." You will get it at the end of your B2B cruises.

 

The unofficial answer is it may work sometimes on some ships. It doesn't hurt to try. The worst thing that will happen is you will have the liquor to take home.

 

If you want to hear Carnival say, "You can pick up your liquor at the end of the first leg and drink it on the second leg" that is not going to happen.

 

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The official response from John Heald and the Carnival rep I talked to is "No, you can not get your liquor at the end of the first leg of a B2B cruise." You will get it at the end of your B2B cruises.

 

The unofficial answer is it may work sometimes on some ships. It doesn't hurt to try. The worst thing that will happen is you will have the liquor to take home.

 

If you want to hear Carnival say, "You can pick up your liquor at the end of the first leg and drink it on the second leg" that is not going to happen.

 

Anyone else?

The official response from John Heald and the Carnival rep I talked to is "No, you can not get your liquor at the end of the first leg of a B2B cruise." You will get it at the end of your B2B cruises.

 

The unofficial answer is it may work sometimes on some ships. It doesn't hurt to try. The worst thing that will happen is you will have the liquor to take home.

 

If you want to hear Carnival say, "You can pick up your liquor at the end of the first leg and drink it on the second leg" that is not going to happen.

 

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We are asking about liquor bought on the ship....not bring on wine! When you are on a. B2b, Will you be able to pick up that purchase and have it for the second cruise?

 

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We are asking about liquor bought on the ship....not bring on wine! When you are on a. B2b, Will you be able to pick up that purchase and have it for the second cruise?

 

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According to Carnival, the official answer is No. The people passing out the liquor are supposed to have a list of B2B cruisers and not give them the liquor until the morning of deembarkation of the second cruise. (I know stewards have a list of B2B cruisers.) Even if someone can tell you that they were able to get their liquor on XYZ ship on XYZ date and drink it on the second leg, it does not mean you will also be able to do it. Whether the policy of holding liquor until the end of the last cruise is implemented may depend on the ship and/or crew passing out the liquor. Different ships seem to implement a lot of policies differently. Perhaps you could go to the roll call section and go to a roll call a few weeks before your sail date and someone there can tell you if it worked on that ship. Otherwise you will just have to take your chances or get someone who is not doing a B2B to buy it for you. I know some of the Journeys cruises have over a 1,000 B2B cruisers. I wonder how well they will check with that many.

 

Anyone else?