Booked for November and ready to go

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49 minutes ago, PhillyFan33579 said:

I texted with a couple of my bartender friends from Carnival today. They both said they have not been contacted by Carnival about returning and neither of them knows anyone who has been contacted about returning. I would think Carnival would have already started the process of contacting crew members if they planned to resume cruising next month. 

Carnival is excited to launch a limited batch of sailings from select ports in November though. We're good :) 

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3 hours ago, kwokpot said:

There will NOT BE shared condiments on the table or anywhere else . Currently no restaurants I go to have condiments on the tables. It would be in single use packets, or in single use cups, etc. 

I finally found one that had the condiments out and I also found a chain restaurant that left the little Ziosk tablets on the tables. The Ziosk surprised me quite a bit.

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3 hours ago, kwokpot said:

There will NOT BE shared condiments on the table or anywhere else . Currently no restaurants I go to have condiments on the tables. It would be in single use packets, or in single use cups, etc. 

More importantly though, do you know what the butter situation will be like?

 

Asking for a friend, genuinely.

[kwokpot]

3 minutes ago, xDisconnections said:

I finally found one that had the condiments out and I also found a chain restaurant that left the little Ziosk tablets on the tables. The Ziosk surprised me quite a bit.

Since I live in Philadelphia I'm one hour away from Atlantic City. I've been going every weekend since the middle of July staying between 1-3 nights at hotels every weekend. We've eaten only outdoors when there was no indoor dining and now eat indoors when NJ allowed it. None of the casino hotel restaurants have any kind of condiments on the tables. In fact there's NOTHING on the tables when we are seated. Once seated, silverware and glassware are brought to the table. That's the safe way to dine indoors I would NEVER dine at an establishment that still has shared condiments. 

When I dine in Philly it's the same procedure. There's nothing on the tables until you sit down and then the table is set. Any restaurant doing it any other way is doing it wrong.

[hurricane0226]

Was on  the  Breeze in March, seen some cruisers bringing their own condiments. so that might be an

option.

[cruizergal70]

13 minutes ago, hurricane0226 said:

Was on  the  Breeze in March, seen some cruisers bringing their own condiments. so that might be an

option.

Not an option for me. Condiments are not that serious that I would pack them on a vacation. 

[sanger727]

18 hours ago, ALWAYS CRUZIN said:

Carnival cruises start in 3 weeks with 6 ships sailing in November. Breeze , Conquest, Elation, Horizon, Liberty and the Sunrise. Who is booked for one of those November cruise? Are you ready to go or a bit uncertain about going? Have you received any notification from Carnival about boarding or testing before boarding, wearing of masks etc.?

there is a thread on the ‘ask a cruise question’ forum that CALIA has committed to all passengers being tested for Covid. So pre-testing seems to be a certainty.

 

11 hours ago, kwokpot said:

There will NOT BE shared condiments on the table or anywhere else . Currently no restaurants I go to have condiments on the tables. It would be in single use packets, or in single use cups, etc. 

the restaurants where I live started out great with the Covid protocoks when they re-opened but have been slowly slipping back. Use to be every other table blocked off, disposable/digital/or sanitized menus, and no shares condiments. Now they are all seating all tables, back to normal menus, and ketchup on the table. Cruise lines May start out strong but wonder how long that will last.

[ALWAYS CRUZIN]

14 hours ago, xDisconnections said:

More importantly though, do you know what the butter situation will be like?

 

Asking for a friend, genuinely.

Back to the butter. Oh please no.

[embarkation75]

17 hours ago, PhillyFan33579 said:

I texted with a couple of my bartender friends from Carnival today. They both said they have not been contacted by Carnival about returning and neither of them knows anyone who has been contacted about returning. I would think Carnival would have already started the process of contacting crew members if they planned to resume cruising next month. 

 

Yeah, you'd like to see more evidence from the crew before being confident about November but who knows at this point. With that stated, Carnival has been saying for months that they will slowly rollout the fleet as I will standby my assessment from months ago that some ships will be sailing before the end of 2020 although it will be less than a handful of ships out of Miami and Canaveral.

 

I fully expect these ships to basically remain the Guinea Pigs the rest of the winter as I don't see more than maybe another 2-3 ships restarting in states that are throwing caution to the wind with covid-19, such as TX. The next question becomes when will the rest of the fleet begin sailing as that will depend heavily on covid-19 infection rates and state/local clearance. Based on trends and vaccine availability, I'd put money on full fleet ops occurring by late April as infection rates start dropping with use of vaccines.  This makes the most sense as this allows Carnival to be fully operational in time for the money making summer cruise season as outside of missing some spring break cruises, most of the itineraries in the winter are less profitable anyway.

[Breezie68]

I'm on the Nov 9th sailing of Conquest. Will it go? If it goes, I'll go.

[gavenalex]

Our MSC seaside Nov 1st sailing got cancelled yesterday.  We are on the wait list for Sunrise Nov 2nd.  We already had airfare booked to FL and it will be my 50th...so fingers crossed.  

[Cruiseboy06]

This question was posted on John Heald's Facebook page earlier, and it sounds like they STILL don't know.......  

[matymil]

This is the one major issue I don't know how they are going to get over in time; so nobody is hearing anything about changes to their sailings in Nov/Dec? I would assume that there is no way that can sail at full capacity and most of these sailings are more than likely sold out (or close to it) from before the pandemic. How is Carnival going to decide who goes and does go? They should have started reaching out to people by now. 3 weeks is not enough time. We were sailing a week after everything shut down and it was not fun trying to get everything taken care of (flight, hotels, car, activities)

 

[Butterbean1000]

On 10/7/2020 at 8:21 PM, ALWAYS CRUZIN said:

I have only been to one restaurant that had single use packets. All the rest were just like they have been, but get wiped down after the people leave the table. At a buffet. You need to ask for them. In regular containers. Including the Ketchup, Mustard and the Hot Sauce.

I'm guessing there will be someone at the toppings bar at Guy's and Blue Iguana to serve sauces, etc. 

[ALWAYS CRUZIN]

Not happy on this report.

CruiseFever October 7^th. Report.

All other cruise lines including Royal Caribbean, MSC Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Celebrity Cruises have canceled their November sailings and are now aiming for a December restart on their cruise ships.

Carnival Cruise Line only has cruises from two Florida ports scheduled next month. The cruise line has cruises from Port of Miami and Port Canaveral on six cruise ships sailing to the Bahamas and Caribbean.

However, Carnival recently stated that while operations from Miami and Port Canaveral in November and December are still not certain, they are focusing their initial return to service from those two homeports, whenever that might occur.

It’s still a good possibility that Carnival Cruise Line will cancel these sailings from Florida in November. The cruise line has removed all cruises from their booking engine through the middle of December.

In the past, each time that Carnival removed cruises from their booking engine they ended up canceling them at a later date.

Carnival Cruise Line is offering guests who are booked on a November or December cruise the option to cancel and receive a Future Cruise Credit that includes up to $600 in on board credit to use on their rebooked cruise.

They can also cancel and receive a full refund.

 

[matymil]

20 hours ago, Cruiseboy06 said:

This question was posted on John Heald's Facebook page earlier, and it sounds like they STILL don't know.......  

That's terrible considering they plan on restarting in 3 weeks! 

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21 hours ago, Cruiseboy06 said:

This question was posted on John Heald's Facebook page earlier, and it sounds like they STILL don't know.......  

They’ll be just fine.

[kwokpot]

There will be no cruises departing November that have been previously scheduled. 

If you examine what Royal has done,this will be the blueprint for EVERYONE to initially restart cruises. 

What Royal has done is start with one ship in Singapore,the Quantum. They cancelled all previously scheduled Quantum cruises and implemented new capacity controlled 3- 4 cruises to nowhere. 

This way they can test all the new protocols with paying passengers. This solves the problem with too many passengers on already scheduled cruises with ports of calls bit ready to accept cruise passengers.

So if Carnival was really to restart in November what they would do is take 1 ship at Miami and PC and cancel all existing cruises and give those passengers the ability to rebook on new,short capacity controlled cruises meant to test out the new protocols. That's how it will happen.

https://www.royalcaribbeanpresscenter.com/press-release/1476/royal-caribbean-announces-new-quantum-of-the-seas-sailings-from-singapore/

[HarrietGF]

Hello!  I am booked to sail out of Miami aboard Carnival Conquest on Nov. 30, 2020.  Carnival has not sent me any

notices that this sailing is canceled, however, just this evening I was reading Cruise Industry News and that publication

(online) had an article about the Carnival Cruise Line ships sailing out of Florida, along with a list of those ships scheduled

to resume "by year's end"...it listed Carnival Conquest as resuming sailing on December 18th.  I don't know if what to believe

now...Carnival has not sent me any information toward this end.  So, I'm hanging in and hoping we sail on Nov. 30th as

planned.  If it doesn't happen, I'll have to look toward January 2021 for something else.

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17 minutes ago, HarrietGF said:

Hello!  I am booked to sail out of Miami aboard Carnival Conquest on Nov. 30, 2020.  Carnival has not sent me any

notices that this sailing is canceled, however, just this evening I was reading Cruise Industry News and that publication

(online) had an article about the Carnival Cruise Line ships sailing out of Florida, along with a list of those ships scheduled

to resume "by year's end"...it listed Carnival Conquest as resuming sailing on December 18th.  I don't know if what to believe

now...Carnival has not sent me any information toward this end.  So, I'm hanging in and hoping we sail on Nov. 30th as

planned.  If it doesn't happen, I'll have to look toward January 2021 for something else.

Trust what the cruise line tells you. Remember, you paid them -- not some random cruise website trying to generate ad revenue.

[HarrietGF]

Yes, that's what I think I will do.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, HarrietGF said:

Yes, that's what I think I will do.

 

 

Eventually the cruise line will be correct when people such as @Cruiseboy06 are still saying it will be canceled. Think about it... MSC had to resume sometime among doubts as did Costa.

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[Bgcruising]

58 minutes ago, xDisconnections said:

Eventually the cruise line will be correct when people such as @Cruiseboy06 are still saying it will be canceled. Think about it... MSC had to resume sometime among doubts as did Costa.

 

My money is on them going next month.

[molly361]

13 hours ago, kwokpot said:

There will be no cruises departing November that have been previously scheduled. 

If you examine what Royal has done,this will be the blueprint for EVERYONE to initially restart cruises. 

What Royal has done is start with one ship in Singapore,the Quantum. They cancelled all previously scheduled Quantum cruises and implemented new capacity controlled 3- 4 cruises to nowhere. 

This way they can test all the new protocols with paying passengers. This solves the problem with too many passengers on already scheduled cruises with ports of calls bit ready to accept cruise passengers.

So if Carnival was really to restart in November what they would do is take 1 ship at Miami and PC and cancel all existing cruises and give those passengers the ability to rebook on new,short capacity controlled cruises meant to test out the new protocols. That's how it will happen.

https://www.royalcaribbeanpresscenter.com/press-release/1476/royal-caribbean-announces-new-quantum-of-the-seas-sailings-from-singapore/

Ditto This!!!