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We are excited to be going on the Firenze next month. We are hearing about having to park at the convention center & shuttle to the terminal. Anyone else experience this?

Thanks JGB, appreciate the info. It sounds like you didn't get any notification before the cruise. Was wondering if we would be notified before our cruise next month.

Has anyone had to park at the convention center and shuttle to the terminal?

Cheers package includes specialty coffees, milk shakes, energy drinks, bottled water, soda, and alcohol. That is why we get it. We order all those things throughout the day. You are paying up front for more than alcohol.

In my Cabo experience the Tenders take forever. Priority goes to shore excursions booked thru ship. You will never make 11am tour.

We stayed on deck 1 ONCE. It was a 3 day on Panorama. Our issue was crew area under us, It was so noisy thru the early morning. We must have been above their bar/lounge area. Will never do it deck 1 again.

I will be going on Carnival Panorama 7 Day Mexican Riviera 3/4/23. Can anyone tell me which nights are formal night? 

We just used the Verifly App last week. It was super easy. I did bring the hard copies with me. When we checked in they wanted to see Verifly. After they looked at the App, they stamped our boarding pass and we were on our way. With technology not always being 100%, you should have your copies. I never want any reason to not be able to board the ship.

On 5/14/2020 at 7:47 AM, EscapeFromConnecticut said:

 

Terrible day for the hard-working employees who've done nothing wrong.

But it's also another missed opportunity for corporate to clean house. Security should have been carrying Duffy's boxes out the door today, and Donald's interview should have been done on the sidewalk. 

I don't know all the history here corporation wise....what is wrong with Duffy's leadership?

We have never missed the ship. We like most other experienced cruisers show up a day early when we fly. I know that not everyone agrees with excursions from the ship. We have been late, past all aboard on an excursion. The ship called our guide when we were stuck in traffic. That day it was money well spent. 

We also learned a valuable lesson about drinking in port, time flies by. We pulled up to the ship and there was one worker, everything outside had been cleaned up. He had a clip board and asked our names, crossed them off when we told him. He did mention there was one more group behind us.

Bookings are up across the board...

https://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-ship-bookings-are-increasing-for-2021-despite-coronavirus-2020-4

Yes, was trying to figure it all out. So confusing with all the cancellations. Had 2 cruises cancelled. 

Our last cruise was the Panorama inaugural 3 day. It was fantastic. Can't wait to get back on a ship.

Sitting in the backyard in my lounge chair drinking isn't the same as a pool deck.

The original cruise was 100% paid for with credit card, not giftcards. Looks like my cruise rate without taxes was $588. Is that my total FCC? I had FCC of $150 put towards this cruise, looks like I lost that along the way somehow.

We had our May 10th cruise cancelled. I filled out the form the day I received it. I also rebooked that day for March 2021. Today my agent sent a new confirmation from carnival. It has the OBC on it clearly labeled.There maybe FCC also. Not labeled FCC, there is $300 under coupns/credits and $450 under payments received. 

I wish when we submitted our request we received a note telling us the amount of FCC.

I filled out the form from Carnival and chose the FCC and OBC. I made a booking for March. 

I'm not sure what the coupons/credits are or the payments received. The OBC is labeled. I paid a $150 deposit. That leaves $600 I'm not sure about, is that FCC? 

How do we know the exact amount of FCC?

Thanks for the instructions Saint Greg. When I tried it I got Carnivals page is having maintenance . I get that a lot lately. I will keep trying.

My agent told me there is usually 15 of them. They laid people off and now there are 5. She was telling me how the 5 people had to take care over all clients. Those 5 are very busy.

I just tried to book a May cruise on Carnival site. May is blocked, can't pick a May date. Wonder when we will get our notice about May cruises being cancelled. Have a May 17th cruise date.

With cities/ports not allowing ships to dock right now, we may not be cruising for awhile. Lets hope cruising begins again in May. We all know it may be later.

We are OV bookers, sometimes even obstructed view. I think fear of no window to the outside world scares us. We booked a balcony for Alaska, didn't think it was worth the extra $$. There was a time we booked portholes on a regular basis. One trip the noise was so awful, we have never done it again.

With so many issues cruise ships have had with "THE VIRUS". I couldn't imagine an inside cabin for some of these quarantined ships or ships that couldn't dock. 

I love this topic. My husband and I have been having this discussion between the two of us as a way to pass time around the house. It's like the game what would you do if you won the lottery.  We say...

*Don't prepay gratuities

*Don't buy drink package before you board

We always do both of these, something we will do different with OBC to spend

*Book a spa session

*Excursions

*Liquor to bring home

*Jewelry/Watches

Saint Greg, My husband is with you. We would be on a ship right now if we could. 

On Monday when our May 10th cruise was cancelled we were sad, but not shocked. We often use B-days and anniversaries as reasons to book cruises. Which means my husband's 45th B-day celebration was cancelled. On Monday with the announcement, we booked 2 cruises. One in March 2021 for our anniversary and we will use our FCC & OBC. The other one is booked for May 17th, hoping to still celebrate a week late. We know this may get cancelled, it was such a deal we thought we would chance it.

So, yes we will continue sailing.

My favorite thing that always makes me smile, when I look at my Carnival account and see multiple cruises booked. Right now there are 3.