TheOpenSeas

You are so wrong and so opinionated. I have done 92 Carnival Cruises and 2 more booked this year. I will reach 100 Carnival cruises in the near future. I have only 36 on Royal. But I, like MANY others, are disappointed in the trend that Carnival is taking and feel that current management practices are slowly sucking some of the fun out of the "Fun Ships". Carnival has historically offered a good product at a price that was better than Royal Caribbean's price. Recently, all too often, that is no longer the case. So put down your Carnival pom poms and go back to your Carnival cubicle.

I guess one who may profess how “wrong” and “opinionated” no matter how many cruises you’ve been on may want to suppress your opinion. I don’t put my focus on a cruise ship and it’s “marketing” practices any more. Their tactics have always been there and always will be like all and any cruise line. I take from the cruise what I want and let everyone else chase the propaganda. Some people like the propaganda, let them have it.

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Every cruise line I've been on has Cruise Directors hawking all the time over the PA system. Sometimes in multiple languages. If someone has a hard time saying no, vendors on shore are going to have a record day.

My point exactly. Those of us smart enough, find our way through the propaganda and get to what we’ve paid for, “a nice relaxing vacation”.

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I’ve been on several Carnival cruises and never asked. But look at it this way, you don’t think it happens when they have the “shopping shows” on board the ship or all the stuff at the shops, or the spa, or the fitness stuff. People choose to partake in whatever they want. Never feel obligated to buy what you don’t want to buy on the ship. If you don’t like Carnival, there’s other cruise lines. See ya!

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Ha I was reading these and in the past we have never smuggled. My sister wanted to and she bought two plastic vodka bottles and we each put them in zip lock bags and tucked one in each check bag. They were in our bags when we got to our room!