DallasGuy75219

I don't cruise HAL, but nothing can be worse than the gold Pinnacle name tags on RCCL.

It doesn't have to be a meal at all. Part of what determines what the event is is how many Diamonds are onboard. On 3 of my last 4 cruises the event has been a cocktail party with open bar and nice passed hors d'oeuvre (not the crap they were serving at the Platinum and Diamond party before they stopped serving food altogether). Unfortunately 2 of those 3 cocktail parties were scheduled before noon. In my experience, older ships and/or shorter itineraries are more likely to have fewer Diamonds and therefore less likely to have the lunch. Although the Diamond event can be anything, in 12 cruises as Diamond I've only seen brunch, lunch, or cocktail parties.

And here I am an Elite with 66 days due to double credits on solo bookings 😅

If it's worth the risk of not getting it back in time.

No exceptions* whatsoever, no matter what documentation you have and even if someone is pregnant, in recovery, or allergic to alcohol. (Just about every situation has been asked about on here over time.) * The only exception is that when one person has Drinks on Us Everywhere from the casino, the other person can buy Cheers because DOU Everywhere is essentially the same as Cheers.

Carnival's written policy is that you get VIFP credit for the extra day. But at the end of the cruise there would be relatively little benefit to having the higher level. Plus going to Guest Services to request the 'upgrade' might be a little cheeky considering all the other more important issues they are handling under the circumstances.

Can you at least change guest 3 or 4 in his room to be guest 1, so you're no longer paying for a fourth guest? As someone else said, buying insurance for the second room after you know he can't go would be insurance fraud.

I had the same experience on Valor, essentially a noodle dish designed to fill you up with cheap carbs. Luckily my roommate and I had just ordered it to split as a second main dish so we could have pasta with our chicken parm.

That wasn't the point. The point was that that for 50+ years, even before all the whiz-bang features of today's ships, Carnival's business model has been to make getting there (and the activities on the ship) just as much a part of the cruse experience as the ports it visits.

They don't lock the access doors; that would be a huge safety issue. But they are closed and pretty heavy to open. There is a sign on them saying (I'm paraphrasing) stay out; rooms will be ready at whatever time (usually 1:30). If you have priority and are eligible to drop off your bags before then, you should already gotten an email to the effect telling you that you can drop off your bags early. But the signs themselves no longer mention those exceptions to the rule.

They prefer it because you're more likely to tip them extra at the end of the cruise vs. if you had different servers every night.

Except that they already do this for the Plus and Premier packages. And most changes are announced in groups, like when casual dining, ordering room service by phone or app, and medallion shipping stopped being free with standard fare. So so every single element that has changed doesn't need to be tracked individually.

Booking together won't ensure they get on the same bus/boat/etc, even if they book the same departure time. They need to check in together on the ship and make sure they get the same color and number sticker.

And some policies only cover exacuation to the US if there's not a suitable facility in the foreign country. They won't cover evacuation just because you *want* to be treated in the US.

They are trying so save cabins that sleep 3 or 4 for people actually booking 3 or 4 people into them. But people booking 2 to room are being forced into guarantees (at least when.boolimg online) because there's apparently no mechanism to release those cabins to people booking 2 to a cabin once all the 2-person cabins are full.

The issue is that @louden booked the cruise and bought the Plus package before the price increase to $60 when at least some casual meals, like Alfredo's/Gigi's, were complimentary (and unlimited).

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The "50" in "Plus 50 package" is Princess' indication that @louden bought Plus at the old $50 price.

I was traveling with a group on Sky and ordered a round of maybe 12 shots (one per person), pointing to the group of us sitting next to next to each other at the bar. I was expecting the bartender to charge one (mine) to my package and charge me separately for the other 11, which I we ould have been okay with. But instead he rang up however many shots got me up to 15 drinks for the day on my package and only charged the remainder directly to my account. So no, the crew often don't care about or try to enforce the no sharing rule.

I don't think you have a balcony cabin. The code for a balcony cabin generally starts with B or D. An "O" code would be an oceanview.

9 sq ft is not a meaningful difference, only 5% more square footage.

@Elaine5715 is correct. PVPs get credit for the booking regardless of the fare or cabin category. Nowadsys I'll only sail Carnival on free casino offers, and my PVP will periodically call or email me directly if I haven't booked with him in a while. So obviously he wouldn't be actively looking for my business if my bookings didn't earn him anything.

It's not required that he purchase Cheers. If he does buy it, however, he has to do it on the ship because a beverage manager will have to override the transaction because technically (and this is pretty much the only exception to the rule) he'll be the only one in the cabin with Cheers. The reason for the exception is that you essentially have Cheers already, just called DOU Everywhere instead of Cheers.

I've noticed it at the Lido buffet. For the dishes that combine a protein with a starch and/or vegetables, there's relatively little protein to begin with. That gets picked out by the people serving themselves first, leaving primarily the starch and/or vegetables.

Not anymore.