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Maybe he decided to stow away and go on another cruise. He could sleep on the deck and eat at the buffet.

Twilight Zone and Fun Ship.

We have A01 boarding group (woohoo) and are sailing in a Havana aft balcony on the Vista on Sept 23. I have sailed in the Havana are on the Vista twice before, but both times we boarded much later as we weren't Platinum at the time. Are the spas/pool open to swim in at, say, noon on sail away day? Or do they take that time to clean it? Is the bar open and staffed?

Unfortunately, my kids are in school then. I was looking for something during the summer.

I found a 36-day WC segment going from Sydney to Rome in summer 2025 that had a couple of rooms available. I took a couple of weeks to research the internet and talk my husband and kids into it. (Husband will have to work from on board, but the Crown Princess has star link.) I finally got every one on board, go to book it and now it is showing sold out! There was literally availability less than a week ago. Is there a way to get on an email list to find out if availability comes open? (In other words, other than checking the website every day...) I DM'd princess cruise rep on the Princess website and that was pointless. No help. After 20 minutes, they just told me the cruise was full.

IDK. Someone above said that HAL offered OBC for AARP members.

Does Carnival offer an AARP OBC? Also, @Tom-n-Cheryl not sure you are interested in MSC, but they offer 10 percent off to medical professionals.

Anyone here when Crown Princess might get it? Trying to talk my husband into doing a 36 day segment of the world cruise, but he has to be able to have really good internet.

Anyone know?

And I hope no one removes tips over this. They are hurting the wrong people if they do this. The crew had nothing to do with this.

If it had been something reasonable (like a third off or something) I could see where Carnival might have to honor it under various state's deceptive trade practices act, but no one could reasonably believe that Carnival would be selling Cheers for 1/7 its normal price.

On my Alaskan cruise, I saw a guy trying to board with a box fan strapped to his back. They wouldn't let him take it on. He argued with them saying that he "always cruises with it."

Man, I was too late to the party. Bummed. I would have booked it with a 10-20 percent off coupon.

Did you buy them through the Carnival website?

See...that's BS.

One of my Chase cards has a 15% off on Carnival this month so check your Chase offers. Good for up to $129 cash back. I believe it is a targeted offer as my Chase Aer Lingus card offers it but my Chase United and BA don't. Just wanted to post for anyone else with a Chase card to remind them to check their offers.

I have had to start holding my tongue as well and make a point to not comment on rude and obnoxious behavior or people breaking rules because the sort of people who do these things are also the sort of people who will make a scene when their bad behavior is pointed out.

Yeah, we don't really have the problem of running up debt or gambling too much because I actually get anxiety when I start losing too much and then it isn't fun for me anymore. I am pretty frugal. Really, I just want discounts on cruises. I just can't figure out how to make that happen...and I think Carnival seems to have my number because they don't send me casino offers. Even my husband has gotten a few and my Mom gets them...but not me.

That made me LOL. However, the fact that you knew the difference makes me wonder if you are a fellow points hacker. I only recently got heavily into this and I feel like a new world has been opened up to me.

That is so tacky. I would have had a hard time not saying something.

I went to one of those and it took so long to get a drink that I would actually prefer just get the voucher for a free drink and not have to go to the party.

No, but I won some nice ear buds on the punch machine in the arcade.

Probably not on the Jubilee. Definitely on the vista class ships.

So are you talking about what card you put on file with Carnival? What card is best? Amex platinum? Amex platinum business? Chase sapphire preferred? Capital one venture X? What is considered the best? One without a limit like the Amex?

Thank you for posting this. This is good to know.