DallasGuy75219

Incorrect. A service animal is a dog "trained to perform a task directly related to a person’s disability". There's no requirement that the service animal necessarily "work" or perform that task 24/7. https://www.ada.gov/topics/service-animals/

FWIW I've never found a kiosk that actually took my gift cards. I've always had to go to Guest Services and have them apply the gift cards to my S&S.

Not soon enough. I would get mine even though I had no intention of keeping it just so they would move on to something better just a little bit sooner.

Fanny packs on Valor over Halloween, toiletry bag on Glory the week before Christmas.

Ummmm that's the layout on the entire fleet except for the Spirit and Excel classes. You can't cross the ship front to back on the lower (or only) deck with the MDRs because the galley is smack dab in in the middle between the forward and aft MDRs.

What's there to be confused about? Are people who are not sailing clamoring to get on RC ships for their "free" hamburgers such that repeatedly making this inane point is necessary?

I've even gotten Kirkland (Costco brand) on RCL.

For a short time RCL changed to selling their small bottles of water in aluminum bottles or cans, I think for environmental reasons (i.e., aluminum is more readily recyclable than plastic). After tasting that water onboard, I understand why it didn't last long.

If you don't know the status quo for ordering wine by the bottle (on land or at sea) yet you're baulking at the markup and gratuity, it's probably best that you stick to bringing on the one allotted bottle of wine per passenger.

No different from a land-based restaurant, where you'd be expected to tip for a bottle of wine you ordered.

No, it's the same price as buying a wine package onboard.

No no no no! This question or a variation of it comes up almost weekly. If you have priority check-in/boarding and are traveling with others who don't have priority, the only way they can check in and board with you if your minor children are in another cabin with no other adults. When everyone has priority, no one has priority.

There are no hard and fast rules. Generally on cruises out of the US the ship we will stay on home port time, but it is at the Captain's discretion. With some countries not recognizing Daylight Savings Time, it makes things more complicated. If we had changed ship time on my current Glory cruise, we would have moved one hour ahead (New Orleans to Costa Maya), one hour back (Belize), one hour ahead (Cozumel), then one hour back (New Orleans). It's just not worth the hassle and confusion of all those one hour time changes.

PepsiCo is 0-3 at a product to seriously compete against 7up and Sprite. Slice... Sierra Mist... Starry. "Starry" sounds even less compelling than Sierra Mist. Time to go back for a fourth try.

Perhaps, if one considers perpetual fleetwide understaffing to be the new normal.

On the machine you have to cash out the winnings to your player bank, cash out your player bank at a kiosk or cashier, then apply the the cash to your S&S account. There's no way to move your winnings automatically or electronically from your player bank to your S&S account.

Wrong. The bacation started the supposed bacon shortage with the restart after COVID. None of the other major cruise lines had a bacon shortage that prevented them from serving bacon on the buffet every day. There was just a shortage of bacon at the prices Carnival was willing to pay.

Usually not, or if so very rarely, at least at lunch.

Here I am replying to your post, interrupting the agenda bashing.

On Glory at lunch today the frosting on the sheet cake looked completely different than the round layer cake.

So the pretty decorated layer cakes are now for display only. They're putting out pre-sliced sheet cakes that don't exactly taste like the layer cakes used to.

MDR lunch is only served on extended cruises, like Journeys and transoceanic repositioning cruises, with numerous sea days. "Multiple sea days in a row" is a bit overly simplistic because, for instance, 7-day New Orleans and Galveston cruises usually have one sea day in one direction (outbound or inbound) and two in the other direction. Brunch (not breakfast and lunch) is served in the MDR on the two consecutive sea days.

Yep. In the last year I've missed 3 ports, none of them tender ports or private cruiseline ports. And in some cases, it's not even docking that's the issue in windy weather. We almost missed a port (Roatan I believe) once because the channel leading to the port is too narrow to safely navigate with the wind at certain speeds and directions.

It's not amusing; @mz-sis correct.

Used to be the vouchers could only be redeemed in the MDR, but now the description if you order online says they can also be redeemed at any bar.