five.

I appreciate your enthusiasm so much. I hope you have a great trip.

Hayley Mac (Hayley McMinn). On another site she posted a picture from the bridge on Dec 18, 2016 and then a few weeks later she said bye to Carnival Conquest.

Edit: deleted my post. Glad you got your answer and it worked out.

Thanks for the reminders everyone. I think we'll have a grand time regardless.

If you've sailed with Carnival recently and had a great time, post your mini review and thoughts. If you've seen a really good Carnival Magic review on YT recently, throw it my way. We booked and paid-in-full for a September cruise shortly before the loyalty program changes. We kind of booked on a whim because of familiarity with Magic and being at our wits end on what to do. "We'll be platinum soon, lets just go back to Carnival Magic since we've done it and know it'll be fine." Most of the threads I've been in lately have been critical lately and my mind is kind of dreading the trip. So if you have some good vibes to share, I'm all ears.

They also make straps that let you strap to the top of your rolling luggage. Or size up and put inside of your luggage, though I think you're supposed to carry-on drinks, so don't put it in your checked bags. The hand trucks do solve the problem, but I'd not want to dedicate storage and my free hand to one thing of soda for handtrucks. I'd want to multitask that hand if I could.

I have a spa cabin in 11246 in Sept. Your review doesn't inspire much confidence.

It took me several attempts before I understood what you were saying. I was like you've been married for 50+ years and are getting divorced??

I have a cruise in September that I am honestly no longer looking forward to. We already paid-in-full and are still going. I wish we had booked elsewhere at this point. We just went with the familiar at the time. My wife was like, "might as well do Carnival, since we'll be Platinum in another cruise or two. We know what to expect and like the ship (Magic)."

That looks like it would be incredible! (and expensive)

That is the disheartening thing about this so much. So tone deaf to the masses that built the brand. And honestly this reminds me of when time honored BIFL companies are bought out by VC's. Killing the lifetime warranties, killing the product quality, killing the customer service. Everything is about profit maximization until they suck every penny out and move onto the next buyout and do it all again. My wife was watching Pretty Woman recently and I realized that was Gere's characters business model way back then. I am not saying that Carnival is going out-of-business one day as a result of this, I am just saying that all of this is giving me similar vibes. Profit grubbing at it's worse, on the backs of the ones that built the brand, celebrated the brand, and praised the brand.

Your snark in this post and others is hilarious. I saw that username and was like "sounds familiar," went back and looked at your posts and was like yep, I'm stalking this dude around this thread just for the lols.

That is such a cool story and memento, thanks for sharing.

Man I'm getting old. And covid was 5 years ago. It just doesn't seem like it can be that long ago.

I had been thinking the same thing. I have an old badge printer at home. I need to start up an Etsy shop for fake CCL cards. There will be a market lol.

That is pretty amazing. I guess that was 1995? My dad died in 1995, so that is kind of crazy in my mind to think about too. It's kind of funny that your join date was 22 years ago and you're still short 8 years. You've been on so many cruises looking at your signature. What was your very first cruise?

I appreciate the breakdown you provided. I've experienced much of the same, including their responses when multiple ports were changed. When comparing how we were treated on Carnival when it happened versus HAL, it was so much better on HAL. And they are the same parent company.

At least on HAL, you were able to fill out the form before the cruise and then get an escort onto the ship and they took you through the priority line. It was an amazing experience for my in-laws. We had booked a Carnival cruise with them, but never did it because of covid. I did not see anything on Carnival's official site that mentioned anything about being able to use the priority lines. But multiple reddit posts say they do the same thing. Here is one of the posts I saw.

You nailed this so much. This is the crux of the problem. And I agree about blue cards, it was nice to chat with first time cruisers.

I am just trying to figure out who jimbo is in this scenario.

I agree with this sentiment. Others have demonstrated that the perks aren't all that special. It was all about flashing that card that said "look at me, I am somebody." It was the closest that many would get to the fabled black amex. They've taken away a lot of identity today. Of course, not everyone feels this way. But I think it's a vanity thing and a bunch of people are hurt and feel abandoned and personally attacked.

Well said!

I used to bring my own universal remote to change inputs on the tv, it worked fine. Most recent time I bothered was in Sept 2019 and I just unplugged what was using hdmi and plugged my device in. It worked fine. There was reports on these boards recently that no longer works though.

Man this blurb and that picture of your bathing suit feels me with a bit of dread. We were tired of stressing over what to do for our birthdays this year and decided to go back to an old faithful. Magic with the t-pool. This doesn't sound great at all.

Make sure the friend fills out the special access form: https://www.carnival.com/~/media/CCLUS/Images/pdf/mobility-questionnaire.pdf And check out the FAQ and pre-cruise pages: https://www.carnival.com/about-carnival/special-needs Sigh: I typed a long paragraph with our experience boarding and then remembered that the actual cruise was HAL and not CCL. We went through the entire pre-cruise thing above so it still applies, but we never cruised with CCL and my in-laws (who are in scooters) because of covid. When we did the actual cruise, we changed from Seattle to Vancouver departure and wanted Glacier Bay, so we ended up with HAL. From my understanding the boarding process will be similar for CCL though, suite, FTTF, wheelchair bound will all board first. I don't know the exact order, but they all get to pass the masses. At least for us with HAL, it was an amazing experience.