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we never sailed on Imagination but.... my wife karen worked for USair at the time she debuted in their AirSea dept and we got invited to do a Pierside ovrernight on her in Miami on her inaugural sailing season there .... So.... we flew standby down to Miami and took a cab over to the ship, and spent a full day and night on her with full entertainment and open bar and got to do a meet and greet with the Arisons and all the other big wigs at Carnival and on the ship, we also got a neato hardback book with all kinds of tech info on the companies that built the ship and the construction process and photos of the shipbuilding - years later we had a similar softcover promo book on the Norwegian Epic and Carnival Victory that were mailed out to Lattitudes and Vifp members - only thing was we just stayed tied up at the pier instead of sailing, the day after we got off the ship, they were gonna sail on a short two day cruise I think with other travel industry big wigs from the airlines and bigger travel agencies and hotels ( our pierside was lesser airlines employees, agents, and hoteliers and staff associated with the cruise industry ) Still it was a great perk and memorable trip but it never worked out for us to sail Imagination, we did howevrer sail Fasciantion about 9 times, Sensation a couple, Fantasy a half dozen maybe Ecstasy several and now Elation plenty including B2B in a couple weeks!😍

we just sent in a couple requests for some obc for casino deals but they are for balcony rate cabins on a casino rate and not the freebie rooms, two of them are great deals and one out next year not a great deal so we'll see, last year we were denied on my wife's airline retiree benefit which is usually a pretty good deal and considered to be a discounted rate ( travel industry discount ) similar to a military rate

yea easier than lookin up a new one

I will say this though.... my pvp said when I aksed him.... that we would get the obc on the casino deal. we went over whether to check the airline discount or not weighing whether to even check it since this was not a cheap cruise with the casino rate. What it was ( was football ) was a more or less regularly priced cruise it seemed to me but a low deposit, drinks for me in the casino and 200 obc so not a great deal but if we got 100 more obc not bad. Then we were gonna make final and burn 100k+ credit card points and the cruise would be basically free at that point. SO at that point a great deal! 🥳so the more you spend ... the easier it is to redeem over a 100k on the final end! AND GET THAT 3 FOR 2 REDEMPTION ON THE PAYMENT!!!🤑

thx woodey I suspect well find out shortly since we'll mail this out today, last year we got the obc several times but not on her retiree deal for the first time, ever, this cruise upcoming we have 200 obc on each of two b2b sailings of 5 nights on elation in nov and dec the 27th and dec 2nd this year and just booked mardis gras for next halloween so stuck it in there too

getting ready to send off some cruise bookings to see if we can get our obc for the next three cruises.... last time we were on mardis gras using my wifes airline retiree benefit and it was denied a new change in the benefits but most our cruises with carnival now are casino deals and they say they will still let us get the obc for shareholder so we'll see

getting ready to send off some cruise bookings to see if we can get our obc for the next three cruises.... last time we were on mardis gras using my wifes airline retiree benefit and it was denied a new change in the benefits but most our cruises with carnival now are casino deals and they say they will still let us get the obc for shareholder so we'll see

post 67? there's that stiff upper lip we've heard so much about!🤔hoping everyone will have a great story to tell their grandchildren when they get home!

the other or one other NCL thing was lattitudes cruises with double points so that was a way to get the 4x points but when they took all our early cruises away of less than a certain amount of days away it ticked us off - that took status away from us, - then they gave it back - then they took it away again a couple years later - then we quit sailing ncl but never say never we may one day sail them again ....

the other thing you can do is scan in a copy of your last room card where it would say diamond or diamond plus or platinum etc. that's what I did with my carnival diamond card the other day, we are both diamond on carnival and royal but on carnival its 200 days however didn't seem to matter I dont guess - I haven't put the old lady's in yet but I got back my msc thing in about a day I got one tier below their top

thats what I was hoping tom, but after seeing some of the post here going back a few years it seems that for most people that is what they get, I have seen that even diamond plus royals get gold usually, although a few seem to get diamond on msc, we have been diamond on royal for a short time due to the covid bonuses and suite bonuses ( last year in jan we had a 8 night cruise get quadruple points for just a junior suite! ) so I had been pondering putting in for the match we were platinum on wyndham hotels and lesser status on other hotels but our diamond on royal was 104 pts last fall and with only one cruise to go we knew at 200 pts ( days ) we'd maybe get diamond on msc - i may yet call them to see it multiple reward levels on carnival and royal will matter though I saw a status match thing someone posted upthread from msc's uk webpage that showed our wyndham would only get silver so no help there. we have sheraton, ihg, hilton honors but all lower than our W acct .

did my diamond on carnival we just earned at exactly 200 days last week and got gold on msc in just hours, yesterday, this am got an email about the 4300 points and to register my acct and get a bonus 100pts we're also diamond on royal so I may have my wife put in her royal info for her acct

just getting ready to sail on the mardis gras this weekend, and in june we sail on the vision of the seas, wonder when royal will retire more of these older ships like vision we like ships like this and enchantment and across that range but also the larger royal ships too, I know from their loyal customer base that they have super faves in those smaller ships vs the mega ships styles

how many peeps gotta pic of the celebration in costa livery with its italian crew? they had just delivered it to freeport and we'd just sailed in there i think on ecstasy maybe from jax, the nassau or ( bahammas celebration) is listing and tied up in front of us at the dock a couple weeks after its accident a few years ago and everything was in limbo for them at the time I had more pics, but a lost camera in jamaica, and photobucket changing their rules may have doomed me to only this one today.

you know sadly with covid..... Imma gonna have to add some ships to this list! without going back thru the whole thing, me and the wife have been super fond of the whole FANTASY CLASS ships of Carnival especially the Fantasy, Fascination and now sadly the Ecstasy is looking like its going away too? Our buddies cindy and gerry just sailed on one of the last Ecstasy sailings a couple weeks ago and we met up with them on Elation to discuss a week ago Aslo we really liked Sensation too and the smaller Jubilee and Celebration though only sailing j once.