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RaiderDuck

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  1. IIRC, the price was based on the length of the cruise. $50 would be for a four-night Catalina/Ensenada run, where $90 would be for a seven or eight-night cruise.
  2. My wife and I will be sailing on the Carnival Splendor out of Sydney on November 10, boarding at noon. Current Carnival Australia policies require a rapid test within 24 hours or a PCR test within 48 hours of boarding, which will be impossible for us to get in the United States due to travel times, etc. The night before the cruise, we'll be staying at a Marriott near the harbor. Is there a good place nearby to get tested, or should we just buy two tests at a store back home in the US, pack them in our luggage, and take them the morning we board?
  3. The Premium plan now says it doesn't support music streaming. My advice would be to download whatever albums/playlists you want before boarding.
  4. Same here. Every time I've looked at AT&T's cruise package, I've come away thinking "MY GODS what a ripoff!" My wife and I just get his and hers Premium Wi-Fi packages instead.
  5. My wife and I have just booked a cruise for the Miracle later this month. When we sailed on the Panorama last fall, we attended the Chef's Table and loved it. This was the second time we'd done the Chef's Table; the first had been on the Inspiration two years before. Obviously, between those two voyages, the menu had changed. Does anyone know if the CT menu has changed between last year and this year? We'd love to go if the food has changed, but the experience is a little pricey if it hasn't. Has anyone attended the Chef's Table in both 2021 and 2022? If so, did the menu change?
  6. We got a balcony cabin on an 8-day Australian cruise for a total of $577 for the both of us ($164 per person plus the port fees, blah blah blah). Unbelievable.
  7. It already has done so. The Splendor was originally built for Costa and transferred to Carnival pretty late in the building process. That's why it's so different layout-wise from other Carnival ships. As for retiring the smaller ships: It's a matter of economics. It doesn't cost that much more to sail a bigger ship than a smaller ship (some more fuel and some more personnel), but since you can fit a lot more paying customers on one, you make a lot more money. If you can sail a big ship for 125-150% of the costs of a smaller ship but you make 250% of the revenue, that's a big win. Also, big ships can have more extra-cost dining venues and other profitable amenities. It's not beyond reason that Carnival could even copy NCL at some point and starting having a "Haven" area on the bigger ships, as those are pure moneymakers for the cruise line (i.e. for the cost of a few more concierges and some nicer areas and food, you can charge 4 times as much per cabin).
  8. Never done it on Carnival, but we did the sushi-making class on board the Empress of the Seas five years ago. It was a lot of fun, as was having people stop by our dining room table afterwards and ask where we'd bought we sushi. 😛
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