DallasGuy75219

Except I posted about the clientele that Carnival attracts on New Orleans cruises (due to the catchment area of cruisers within driving distance), not New Orleanians themselves. I'm originally from south Louisiana and know all New Orleanians/ Louisianians are not like that. In 47 Carnival cruises, I've sailed out of every US homeport except New York, San Francisco, and Norfolk. Approximately 12 of those have been out of New Orleans and I can unequivocally say that the passengers out of New Orleans (not from New Orleans) are some of the 'grossest' and most ill-mannered and uncultured I've seen on any cruises.

Clearly the casino won't be open *in port*. My point was how far in advance of docking the casino closes and that it doesn't reopen after the late token port call in Victoria or Vancouver, so some people get caught off guard and can't cash out.

And Victoria. On Crown in 2022, we were in Victoria from 6 pm to midnight on the last full day of the cruise. The casino shut down around 11 am that day and stayed closed for the remainder of the cruise.

If I didn't know better I'd say Glory was still homeported in New Orleans, because those are exactly the kind of clientele Carnival attracts there, even moreso on the 4/5 nights sailings.

You can't walk in and pick a table. Period. At least not until the upcoming MDR changes are effective. At best you can ask for a table in a certain section or with a specific wait team, or a 2- or 4- top, or a table by a window, perhaps. Just because you see a table empty (and even set) doesn't mean their's a wait team available to work it as soon you sit down. Once the upcoming MDR changes are effective and there is assigned dining agan, you can probably get your assigned table changed, but only to another table that's available, not to any table of your choosing.

Most cruiselines won't let you book fewer people in a cabin than its maximum capacity (e.g , you can't put 1 or 2 people in a cabin that holds 3 or 4). To see those open cabins, you have to search with 3 or 4 passengers. Sometimes a cruise line agent can/will book you into those with fewer passengers than maximum capacity. Sometimes (especially in off-peak periods) all 2-person cabins in a category are booked so you can only book 2 people into a guarantee (this sounds like OP's situation), and closer to sailing you'll be assigned to a 3- or 4- person cabin as the cruise line determines how many are not likely to be booked with 3 or 4 passengers.

Definitely no USB ports. Whatever the bedside lamps were plugged into I believe was behind the bed, so I didn't see if they were US or European outlets.

If you can't get another bungalow under the other booking, maybe ask onboard if they will let you put 2 additional people (for a total of 8) for another $50 fee. Not sure if that will make it too cramped, but with 3 of the 8 being kids maybe that helps. You'll probably have to go directly to the ShoreEx manager who can hopefully see the big picture and bend the riles to help right Princess' wrong, i.e. you tried to do the right thing and book two separate bungalows for a 8 people, only to have Princess cancel one without notifying you because you violated their unpublished rule.

On my last Carnival cruise, my S&S wasn't out went I dropped my bags, and I'm Diamond. Seems to be very inconsistent among stewards... when I drop my bags before 1:30 some stewards have their entire sections' S&S cards out, while others don't have even their top tier Elites' out.

PVSA applies to transporting revenue passengers, therefore crew members signing off in a US port (if they happened to have signed on in a different US port without a distant foreign port stop during their contract) wouldn't be subject to a fine.

The dryers are hit and miss. Some of them don't get quite hot enough so you either have to run a second cycle or air dry damp clothes in your cabin.

Port side is nonsmoking. On the other side of the bar, more starboard, is the smoking section.

My post was abundantly clear. CBP levies the fines against the cruise line, and the cruise line collects it from the passenger.

The fine is levied against the cruise line, not the passenger. If anyone is preventing a passenger from disembarking until the fine is paid, it's the cruise line doing so either because the passenger was paying their onboard account in cash or because the credit card they were using was denied when the cruise line tried to charge additional pre-authorizations.

That was primarily right after the restart when ships were sailing nowhere close to full and the cruise lines were doing anything they could to get any warm body onboard. Now that demand is at or above pre-COVID levels you don't hear non-gamblers say they're getting casino offers (at least the better offers like comped cruises).

That's overly broad. A cruise line "shall not impose or apply eligibility criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a disability or any class of individuals with disabilities," but if they can't ask at all about someone's needs how are they supposed to provide an accessible cabin that meets their needs? Not being able to ask about someone's needs is completely counterproductive to making reasonable accommodations to meet their needs, which is the whole point of the ADA.

It's on the back of the complimentary room service menu.

Princess' upgrade process is outsourced to a third party (Plusgrade). You're getting scripted, unhelpful answers because no one at Princess has direct control of or visibility to your upgrade bids, or direct control of the upgrade process on any sailing. The bidding/upgrade process is to set up to be entirely online and automated, so it's not surprising when Princess employees tell you there's nothing they can do, because the process isn't meant to be manually manipulated or subject to Princess employees trying to figure out why you didn't get an upgrade but someone else did.

It's just not worth the extra expense and possibly longer processing time and scrutiny considering how few were scheduled even when they were allowed. The cruise lines pretty much only scheduled them when had a 2-3 open days before or after a repositioning or for example if a hurricane cut a scheduled cruise short.

It doesn't help that Princess' website still shows La Patisserie as a foodservice option on Island.

No different than toiletries or OTC meds or feminine products in a cruise shift gift shop.

Southwest doesn't serve DFW (yet). If other airlines were taking off, your flight was likely cancelled because the weather delay caused to crew to no longer be legal to take off.

Exactly. They've cut down on the number of events and giveaways on premier cruises while increasing the number of premier guests they'll book. I'd much rather take a free interior with DOU Everywhere and several hundred dollars in freeplay on the same sailing vs. a free balcony and DOU in the casino only on a premier cruise, and that's exactly what I've been doing on my future bookings. I'm trying Ultra to see if that's worth the opportunity cost of giving up better perks on other offers.

Some of these exclusions are ridiculously conservative. At least a quarter of Carnival passengers (myself included) are probably diabetic, based on what you see at the buffet. Some people's diabetes is controlled with medicine, and not every diabetic has peripheral neuropathy or limbs rotting off. It certainly doesn't stop me from getting massages at home.

They're now officially prohibited from the US with the kind of visa that most mass market line crew possess.