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[TNcruising02]

2 hours ago, SNJCruisers said:

It irritates me to no end about the plethora of people boasting about getting Cheers as cheap as 5 bucks per day because they were the recipient of a RU1 code.  Others paid a bit more when they got a RU2 or RU3 code.  All the algorithm bestowed upon me was the RU9 code, which was worthless.  Have sailed on Carnival for 35 years and the only thing I ever got from them was a free upgrade 10 years ago on the Spirit.

So, I decided to roll the dice, gauge the system and overpay for a B2B August cruise hoping that it would cancel so I would earn the 1200 in OBC to use towards Cheers for our new B2B.  No big deal, I have my Halloween cruise on the Mardi Gras to look forward to as well as 8 bookings in 2022 and 4 in 2023.

You should have gambled on July.

[SNJCruisers]

9 hours ago, firefly333 said:

 Enjoy your b2b please. Lol my travel agent refused to book me b2b until after nov 1st!! He too played it safe.

It was 8/7 & 8/14.  I cancelled and flipped it to 8/27 & 9/3 of 2022 on the Mardi Gras.  Will check her out over Halloween first.  Have only been on one ship out of 35 cruises 3 times, the NCL Escape.   The Mardi Gras will be number two.  It will be a game changer for Carnival. 

[SNJCruisers]

9 hours ago, amcankid said:

 

And other than that, you ain’t gonna get much sympathy from us when you have 14 bookings in the next two years!!!

Maybe a little envy, but definitely no sympathy!!

Only 13 at this point, which is a lot compared to most and a drop in the bucket compared to some on the boards, especially those in FLA or have much deeper pockets than I do.  Used to do 2 at the most per year, but Covid caused me to retire about 4 years early.

[SNJCruisers]

9 hours ago, WhaleTailFlCruiser said:

 

Lol so you thought cruises were gonna keep getting canceled and you tried to play the system and got burned eh lol. 

Didn't get burned at all.  Had a refundable deposit and did not lose a dime.  Flipped my money to the B2B around Labor Day next year with the OV8 code giving me 400 in OBC and 200 from stock makes it 600.  Missed my calculations by two weeks, so it would have been 1800.  

[amcankid]

52 minutes ago, SNJCruisers said:

Only 13 at this point, which is a lot compared to most and a drop in the bucket compared to some on the boards, especially those in FLA or have much deeper pockets than I do.  Used to do 2 at the most per year, but Covid caused me to retire about 4 years early.

I love California. I love the west coast.

But if ever I decided to leave and go to the East Coast it would be for one reason.

To do the same thing as you.

I’d get a one or two bedroom condo that I can just walk out the door, lock it and say see ya in a couple of weeks. 
But I got to wait a bit before I can do that. I’m retired but my wife has at least 4 more years to go. But who knows, I might start bumping into you in 5 years. We’ll both be saying I know that person from somewhere. Oh crapola. I’ve seen that person on 10 different cruises this year!! Lol

[SNJCruisers]

20 minutes ago, amcankid said:

 But who knows, I might start bumping into you in 5 years. We’ll both be saying I know that person from somewhere. Oh crapola. I’ve seen that person on 10 different cruises this year!! Lol

We like to cruise on the newest ships afloat, with 5 of our 9 ships booked have not even sailed yet.  With Carnival, it's 3 on Mardi Gras and 1 on Celebration.   On NCL,  it's 2 on Prima and 1 each on Bliss, Joy and Encore. Two on Discovery Princess and 1 on revamped Oasis and Celebrity Apex.

Have a transatlantic as well as a 14 day Northern European cruise booked.

[amcankid]

On 6/11/2021 at 10:07 PM, SNJCruisers said:

We like to cruise on the newest ships afloat, with 5 of our 9 ships booked have not even sailed yet.  With Carnival, it's 3 on Mardi Gras and 1 on Celebration.   On NCL,  it's 2 on Prima and 1 each on Bliss, Joy and Encore. Two on Discovery Princess and 1 on revamped Oasis and Celebrity Apex.

Have a transatlantic as well as a 14 day Northern European cruise booked.

Geez. You just keep rubbing in don’t you!! Lol

Seriously though, nothing but envy for you and hope that one day, God and health willing, we’ll have the same opportunities to be at sea that much!!

 

[travelplus]

I'm so glad I waited for my Panorama until this February. I want to let things settle to avoid more disappointmens.

[Irene225]

On 6/11/2021 at 11:22 AM, SNJCruisers said:

It irritates me to no end about the plethora of people boasting about getting Cheers as cheap as 5 bucks per day because they were the recipient of a RU1 code.  Others paid a bit more when they got a RU2 or RU3 code.  All the algorithm bestowed upon me was the RU9 code, which was worthless.  Have sailed on Carnival for 35 years and the only thing I ever got from them was a free upgrade 10 years ago on the Spirit.

So, I decided to roll the dice, gauge the system and overpay for a B2B August cruise hoping that it would cancel so I would earn the 1200 in OBC to use towards Cheers for our new B2B.  No big deal, I have my Halloween cruise on the Mardi Gras to look forward to as well as 8 bookings in 2022 and 4 in 2023.

 

@SNJCruisers Totally unrelated to this topic but I came here looking for you G!  I just booked Celebrity for August and it made me start thinking about people we've met on cruises. I hope you guys are doing well ... looking forward to following your upcoming sailing on Royal!

Edited June 14, 2021 by ashirene225

[tkportersat]

On 6/11/2021 at 11:22 AM, SNJCruisers said:

It irritates me to no end about the plethora of people boasting about getting Cheers as cheap as 5 bucks per day because they were the recipient of a RU1 code.  Others paid a bit more when they got a RU2 or RU3 code.  All the algorithm bestowed upon me was the RU9 code, which was worthless.  Have sailed on Carnival for 35 years and the only thing I ever got from them was a free upgrade 10 years ago on the Spirit.

So, I decided to roll the dice, gauge the system and overpay for a B2B August cruise hoping that it would cancel so I would earn the 1200 in OBC to use towards Cheers for our new B2B.  No big deal, I have my Halloween cruise on the Mardi Gras to look forward to as well as 8 bookings in 2022 and 4 in 2023.

My Aunt has been on one Carnival cruise (with me) and my mom primarily a RC cruiser are both getting way better offers than me (Platinum).  Both are being offered free balconies with drinks all over the ship.  Mine is free inside with drinks in the casino.  I know it is because they blew a ton of money in the Casino, I spent some but not near their levels.  

[kdr69]

Latest status of Carnival ships on CDC website.  Still alot of Orange and the Radiance which im booked on in November isnt even on there 

Carnival Breeze	Orange
Carnival Conquest	Orange
Carnival Ecstasy	Green
Carnival Elation	Green
Carnival Freedom	Orange
Carnival Horizon	Orange
Carnival Liberty	Green
Carnival Mardi Gras	Orange
Carnival Miracle	Green
Carnival Panorama	Orange
Carnival Pride	Green
Carnival Sensation	Green
Carnival Sunrise	Green
Carnival Sunshine	Green
Carnival Vista	Orange

[TNcruising02]

Green Ship Criteria

• No confirmed cases of COVID-19 or COVID-19-like illness for 14 days, as determined by a qualified medical professional.
• If the ship received ship-to-ship transfers within the past 14 days, crew must have come from a ship that was not Red.
• If land-based crew embarked, they were immediately quarantined (unless fully vaccinated or recovered in past 90 days) upon embarking the ship.

Note: To maintain Green status, ships must submit a daily EDC form to CDC. Failure to submit by 0900 ET each day changes ship status to Red. Green ship status means that CDC considers the ship to be currently unaffected by COVID-19 based on information provided by the cruise ship operator.

Orange Ship Criteria

Orange ship status in the absence of pre-existing Red ship status or a case report on the same day that would change the ship’s status to Red.

• One or more cases of confirmed COVID-19 among newly embarking crew that:
  • Were diagnosed within their embarkation quarantine period,
  • As determined by a qualified medical professional, had a non-contact embarkation process and no unvaccinated close contacts were identified during the embarkation process (i.e., absence of exposures during embarkation), and
  • The ship had no other confirmed cases of COVID-19 onboard during the past 14 days.

OR

• One or more cases of COVID-19-like illness with negative or repeatedly inconclusive/invalid (i.e., never able to register a positive or negative result) test results for COVID-19 within the past 14 days (with no other laboratory-confirmed respiratory pathogens [e.g., influenza, RSV, Legionella, Streptococcal pharyngitis])
  • Diagnosed either within or outside of their embarkation quarantine period, and
  • The ship had no other confirmed cases of COVID-19 onboard during the past 14 days.
• If the ship received ship-to-ship transfers within the past 14 days, crew must have come from a ship that was not Red.
• If land-based crew embarked, they were immediately quarantined (unless fully vaccinated or recovered in past 90 days) upon embarking the ship.
  
  https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/cruise/management/technical-instructions-for-cruise-ships.html#greenship

[stellarose]

how can Mardi Gras be orange. no one is on the ship (passengers). help?

[TNcruising02]

5 minutes ago, stellarose said:

how can Mardi Gras be orange. no one is on the ship (passengers). help?

All I can think of is that one of the crew members must have tested positive for covid.

[kdr69]

23 minutes ago, stellarose said:

how can Mardi Gras be orange. no one is on the ship (passengers). help?

I Remember they were pretty well all green for all cruise lines just a month ago and now all lines are looking like Carnival with Orange and Green .  

[ProgRockCruiser]

26 minutes ago, stellarose said:

how can Mardi Gras be orange. no one is on the ship (passengers). help?

The entire red/orange/green status is centered around crew health and other ready-to-sail elements, not pax status.

[ProgRockCruiser]

1 minute ago, kdr69 said:

I Remember they were pretty well all green for all cruise lines just a month ago and now all lines are looking like Carnival with Orange and Green .  

Probably all the new crew - they go orange with new crew on board until everyone passes quarantine, maybe?

[kdr69]

Just now, ProgRockCruiser said:

Probably all the new crew - they go orange with new crew on board until everyone passes quarantine, maybe?

i would agree with that as being the case

[stellarose]

so someone explain the CDC CSO  so come November 1st - poof all goes away????

[lazydayz]

22 minutes ago, stellarose said:

so someone explain the CDC CSO  so come November 1st - poof all goes away????

 

Unless something happens before then, it expires on October 31.  But there is a chance the CDC could extend it or rescind it, or the federal courts could strike it down, or a number of other things could happen, such as the Public Health Emergency not being extended.  So for planning purposes,  for the time being, I assume it will be gone on November 1. 

[stellarose]

heard that Mardi Gras is canceled for November. 

[ProgRockCruiser]

2 minutes ago, stellarose said:

heard that Mardi Gras is canceled for November. 

Since it was just confirmed it is sailing starting 31 July, how is that possible?

 

Where did you hear that?  Would love some context.

[stellarose]

someone posted on FB that they received an email. I find that strange. 

[TNcruising02]

Just now, stellarose said:

someone posted on FB that they received an email. I find that strange. 

Did they post a copy of it?  It would be interesting to read.

[stellarose]

no