julieanne

SonShine1 Quote: I'm new to the boards and our first cruise is scheduled for Nov 15th on Carnival. I'm interested in how you "shop" rates? I've read a lot about this and how you can get your rate lowered if you find a cheaper price but I have no idea how to do it! Can anyone offer a simple explanation of the best way to do this?

 

If you have booked an Early Saver rate... you can "shop for lower prices". You can find the lower rates on either Carnival itself, or other sites that are opened to the public (don't have to belong to a club in order to buy through them), then you fill out a form and send it into Carnival.. your pvp can help you on filling it out. I have reduced my cruise in October twice now, and both early saver rates. If you have already paid for your cruise in full, you can either take an upgrade or onboard credit. I check out the rates all the time as they go up and down a lot.

Be sure and check out seauonboard.com lots of good information for first time cruisers.. including what rooms to and not to book, if noise is a concern.

GoldMoon: I found my lower rate on Carnival's website. At the time, we had made final payment and the promo said "new bookings only". I called Carnival and they graciously gave me the difference in OBC!

They have their own currency, the Falkland Island Pound. I used credit cards, but if I remember they didn't seem to have any issues with foreign currency.

Sooo, what your basically agreeing with me is that Carnival solicits and agrees to book these kind of "lifestyle" cruises on their family ships. As I said again this dress is PG rated, if it wasn't CC wouldn't allow it here on their site. Maybe its not apppropriate for a formal dinning room but not so bad to get soo worked up over.

No, they do not solicit groups. Groups solicit them. No, this dress is not PG rated. I have seen pics of the front and back. CC could not even keep up with how many times their pics got posted. The fact of the matter is, these groups book aboard family cruises and people who are not part of the group are not informed that they will be sailing with a "lifestyle" group. Now, I am far from a prude, I feel that basic common sense is indicated. Fine, if you want to advertise that you are a woman with no morals who likes another woman with you and your husband/partner in the bedroom, fine, but do you have to dress like this? I would have a good laugh if I saw this, but I would feel awful for families with children.

I'm a young, active, outgoing,intelligent....... skankprude........you know just like all the rest of you judgemental ladies on here who dont seem to realize that what she wore was either APPROPRIATE for her cruise or that CARNIVAL let her wear it. Thats the problem I refered to about Carnival. First they let "lifestyle" cruisers book the same ship as families then dont enforce the dress code. Or Second they think wearing this outfit is fine. Then everyone on here overeacts saying they would puke or shes a skank, or they would never cruise again because of an outfit that is basically PG. Where's the outrage at Carnival for allowing her to wear what you deem in so distastful if indeed she was on a family cruise? Again the name of this thread is in effect "show us what you wore to formal night" well guess what, she did....

They didn't alllow her to wear it darlin'. This thread has been going around for a long time.

Yes, they were on a "lifestyle cruise", this is the lifestyle where they like a 3rd, a woman at that. This was not a charter.

She was asked to leave the dining room and change.

She is an educated woman, a veterinarian. I believe everyone has a right to practice what they want, just not in front of everybody else. They should just charter a ship for their very own cruise, then they could go nekkid, because I can tell you, there will be children on every cruise, doesn't matter if there are 10 children or 200, this dress is not appropriate.

And I always thought that the D prefix meant dumb! I wondered why everyone was being so uncivil to each other. LOL Now you know how my mind works. :eek:

HAHAHAHA :D

I have no clue! Since you do not say how it is used! LOL! I could probably figure it out by reading the thread....

OBC=onboard credit ;)

What became of the Sitmar Fairsky?

I was sort of wondering what people were talking about as I had always known that she sunk. I didn't realize they had built another!:)

Hi, a few people have mentioned sailing with Captain Potenzoni, my mum sailed with him in 1960 and we are looking for some photos of him (from any year) and any of the crew from around that time. Can anyone help us out here? It would be much appriciated.

 

Many Thanks

 

Dave

davemunro@gmail.com

I will ask my sister, she has all of our photos. We sailed with him and I know we have photos somewhere!

Oh yes! I was 7 months pregnant with my son (he's going to be 19 in February)! Gosh time flies! We did a one week to Mexico, my mother and I, as my father couldn't get time off from work! I also did a short Xmas 4 day on her when she became the Viking Serenade!