DallasGuy75219

Sounds like my fried chicken salad on Glory... about 9 tidbits of chicken on an entree salad. I wound up ordering a second entree for some protein. I wish Carnival could get their MDR consistency right. They're supposed to be using standard recipes across the fleet, and at least when I took the Behind the Fun tour many moons ago there were pictures at each galley station showing exactly how each dish should look when plated.

I suspect they have a historical average of how may reservations ultimately get canceled, possibly down to the itinerary or excursion. Once they get to that number of waitlisted passengers on a excursion, they call it sold out because it's not likely anyone else they add to the waitlist will actual get a seat.

Exactly. When Princess Prizes first came out, someone here said they planned to spend a substantial amount of time tapping in to unlock their door then closing the door, rinse and repeat over and over again.

Plus there's no other foreign countries that the 3 night cruises from Florida can get to overnight. Looks like the next closest ports are in Turks & Caicos, Haiti, and Dominica Republic. Those are a full day sail from South Florida, so at that point your 4-night cruise has a single port. None of those ports can take as many ships as Nassau, and the only developed port in Haiti is RC's Labadee. Between that and all the private island investment in the Bahamas (plus Celebration Key being built now), the Bahamas really have the cruise lines by the you-know-whats, at least under their current operating model, and they're starting to play their cards as if they know it.

I can remember when those rented for $200. But $700? That's more like RC prices at (the much nicer) CocoCay.

It's only held on one sea day, usually the last sea day, so if it was showing sold out on other days that's just a(nother) Carnival IT issue; it was never actually available on those days to begin with. Now the new birthday breakfast I presume will be held on a different sea day. My guess is that when Carnival realized people (especially with kids) will pay $10-$15 pp for essentially the same food in the MDR but with added food coloring and silly names, they figured, "Hey, let's see if they'll do it a second time on the same cruise if we just change the theme."

When availability is wide open, they don't want people booking 2 people into cabins that sleep 3 or 4 (i.e., they want to save those for people booking 3 or 4 guests). Once all those 2-person cabins are reserved though, they don't always release (at least timely) the remaining 3- or 4-person cabins to be booked online by someone needing a cabin for 2, so the website will only offer guarantees when booking a cabin for 2. That's when you have to call in so someone can see all open cabins (not just 2-person) and hopefully book you into a cabin that sleeps 3 or 4.

Happened to me on Princess out of Southampton (UK) last summer, when United had their operational meltdown. My flight arrived at Heathrow 3:20 late and I missed the last Princess shuttle to Southampton. Princess EZair told me to take a taxi to Southampton and the ship would reimburse me, which they did... all $400 of it. When I arrived, check-in was clearly over, and there were just a handful of agents left. They radioed the ship to see if they would let me board; they asked if I had a US passport, and I did, so they let me board. They ran all my bags through the carry-on baggage screener (probably just for security theater); I hurried to board the ship, all my bags in hand; and the ship pushed back about 15 minutes later. In hindsight, no one physically checked me in onshore or onboard, but the agents had radioed my cabin number to the ship, so presumably someone on the ship checked me in without me being present. But I am certain that no one ever checked my passport🤭 And yes, I did have travel insurance and also booked airfare through Princess, which guaranteed to pay for me to catch up with the ship at the next port. But I agree the port agents did everything they could to get me aboard, when it would have been easier just to say "Sorry, boarding's over."

The GAAP criteria for recording a contingent liability are that it's probable a loss has been incurred and the amount of the loss is reasonably estimable. As the women went to the resort on their own, not on a Carnival excursion, it's not likely a loss has been incurred, therefore there's no contingent liability to accrue.

The complimentary lobster on the second elegant night is Caribbean spiny lobster.

Since there is no more first/second seating, they may be less inclined to do this today and more inclined to seat the group at multiple tables in the same area. One of the problems with moving tables together like this is that every 4-top you push together reduces the MDR capacity by two people (because people can't sit at the two sides that are put together). At best they may do this at the very beginning or end of service, but not at the 6:30-7:30 rush hour (or whatever the high-demand time is) when they are already short on seats for all the people who want to eat at that time.

Carnival made a fleetwide announcement (I believe at the same time they started charging for more than two main courses) that lobster would always be on the second elegant night on 6-8 day itineraries. On most of these itineraries, the second elegant night is on a port day, and it seems like fewer people eat dinner in the MDR later in the cruise, so presumably they are saving money by serving less complimentary lobster than on the first elegant night.

If he's special needs, they may even be willing to bring him something off the MDR menu (or whatever alternative foods you may have arranged from the MDR).

Try again. This isn't a stock trading or investment forum.

Before the COVID shutdown (and the resulting staffing cuts) the signs listed the exceptions for Diamond, Platinum, and FTTF. I guess some non-priority pax saw that and thought they could sneak in too. Now the signs says cabins will be ready at (usually) 1:30 and don't list any exceptions. So theoretically the only people who know they can drop off luggage before 1:30 are the actual priority pax who were notified by email.

All the mass market lines exclude gratuities from their advertised fares. Unless they simultaneously all decide to include them in advertised fares, the first line to blink and include them loses because their prices are now relatively higher than competitors who exclude them.

Texas law does not stipulate a limited menu. It does stipulate that alcohol sold in Texas (including Texas waters) must be be bought from Texas wholesalers and have Texas excise tax paid on it. Cruiselines choose to serve a limited drink menu in Texas waters to minimize the amount on Texas-purchased alcohol they have to buy and stock. CCL is not the parent company of Princess. Carnival Cruise Line and Princess are both subsidiaries of Carnival Corporation.

I have kept a simple pocket corkscrew in the carry-on bag I take through airport security and on cruises for years. Never had an issue with either. TSA policy explicitly allows corkscrews with no blade, so if an agent tried to confiscate it I'd have appealed to a supervisor with the TSA website pulled up. As for carry-on luggage for a cruise, one of my corkscrews came from room service or a steward on Carnival and has the Carnival logo. No reason for port security to confiscate something you can readily get from the cruiseline once aboard (but then again port security often seems to be lacking in common sense).

Yeah we get it, you've said it 3 times already. If you don't like it, you should probably stop booking because the contract of carriage says they can pass the increased port fees on to you even after you booked and paid in full. But complaining on here isn't going to do a thing to change it.

You do realize that Carnival started that 50+ years with their Fun Ship philosophy?

She can have mine.

She's correct based on Carnival's website: Guests graduating into a new level during a cruise will receive the benefits of the new level they are graduating into from the beginning of the cruise (e.g. those graduating to Gold on the 3rd day of a 5-day cruise will receive Gold benefits for the entire duration of their cruise). Please note that ‘debarkation day’ is not considered a ‘cruise day’, therefore, points are not earned for that day. https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2938/~/vifp-club---carnivals-recognition-program

Corporations aren't charities. They exist primarily to make money for their shareholders. You can be sure Carnival would charge more of a premium if more than their 3 newest ships were competitive. They have (relative) value pricing not because they're altruistic but because they're otherwise pretty noncompetitive, because when Royal and NCL were trying to outdo each other with the biggest ships with the most bells and whistles, Carnival sat on the sidelines.

Carnival tried that already, at least I believe on the Conquest class when it first came out. If they were popular/successful you'd still see them on the ships.

Really? We're blaming the sexual assault victims? Were their swimsuits too provocative? That must be their fault too.