Lottacruises

Yep

 Way too crowded. 

A 20 inch box fan is acceptable. 

On 11/14/2019 at 3:40 PM, Mutumbojimbo said:

I would expect that their contract with Coke runs through the end of the year and that Carnival will stock Coke products until 12/31/2019. My question would be what happens on cruises that run over the New Years holiday. Will those cruises start with Coke and switch over mid cruise?

No.

6 hours ago, Out of Iowa said:

All these cruises and we've never been to the Sail Away party!  January might be my first time.  On the car radio this morning, I was listening to "Come Sail Away" by Styx.  Throw in some calypso and I'll be all set to go...

 

if the Sail Away deck party does not conflict with the Spa Tour/Raffle, I'll unpack later and attend with our accompany pair of Young Adults (who I anticipate will attend in any event). 

What should I expect?

Stick to the raffles. You're bound to win sometime.

7 hours ago, sanger727 said:

 

They do. And I wear a watch every day but it's a smart watch. Mine automatically links to the time on my phone and there's no way to override that. So, the only way to adjust the settings on the watch is to adjust the settings on my phone. Yes, I could purchase an regular watch. But why; when it's super easy to just change the auto update settings on my phone and then my watch will list whatever time I want it to list.

Problem solved.

20 hours ago, jdcml said:

Ok.. so the ship sails from port and that is consider ships time. Everything revolves around ships time and it doesn't deviate when you change time zones. Don't change your watch from ships time or you get left behind.  Local time doesn't exist when cruising.  Get it.

Booked an excursion in St Maarten tonight.  They are an hour ahead of us here in the eastern time zone so had to do some math on that one to be sure we grabbed the right slot and were back in time, etc.  Their time is one hour different than ships time as local time.  We were chatting with them to grab a certain time and they said that we wouldn't be in port in time for that one...even though our itinerary said we would - because it is of course based on ships time.

In the OLD days, you had to turn the knob on the side of your watch to change the time that your watch was reading.  Now you can place your phone in airplane mode and it doesn't connect to the local tower to adjust the time as you travel.  BUT - what if we wanted to check some emails and do some things and connect to wifi on an island that 9 times out of 10 isn't on ships time, but that is the only source of time one has?  I haven't worn an actual watch in years because clocks are on your phone our on the computer you are on.  Is your phone then reset to island time which then makes you late (or early) for dinner back on the ship? 😂

I KNOW that it's a really easy hurdle to overcome, but as we were booking a few excursions with this group we are going with the topic came up.  Some where an Apple Watch that connects back to the phone, but then when the phone connects to wifi to send an few emails everything gets out of sync.  Does anyone travel with an old school watch (that we don't own) just to be sure that one time piece is accurate and not subject to changing automatically based on your geographic location and a connection to a tower?  I can only imagine this whole thing gets even more screwed up with Daylight Saving where an hour is really two hours and yadda yadda. 

It has been a couple years since we cruised.  This process is super easy.  Whats the simple answer?

They still make watches you know....

22 minutes ago, Cushing985 said:

Not a big deal for me.  I'm not a fan of Pepsi so will just bring along a 12-pack of coke (at most I drink 2 per day).  I will survive!

Me too. The plus for me is mountain dew. The negative is no coke zero. I can carry some or none, I'll be ok for a week or even two without.

10 minutes ago, jbethel11 said:

Knowing how popular CocaCola products are, PepsiCola must be severely discounted their products, probably to the point of making no-profit.

Pepsi stock is double  the price of coke. I imagine they're profitable...

Have fun!

I still am not happy. I was hoping for Shasta....

18 hours ago, ShakyBeef said:

 

We all will never decide that.  I, for one, love the Bahamas, Bahamian culture, Bahamian people, and Bahamian FOOD!  And although Freeport is not the most appealing of Bahamian locales, it is still the Bahamas and I can get a taste of the Bahamas each time I go there. 

 

My only real complaint about our Carnival cruise stops in Freeport is that they are too short (Carnival Pride, something like 8:00AM - 1:00PM).  I wish we had more time there to make our trips out to Gold Rock Beach and such longer and more 

 I visit my friends everytime and hang out at their beach, with some stops to and from for some local flavor. 

I find it ironic preDorian the consensus is that people hate Freeport. After Dorian people loved it and can't wait to get back. 

I've always liked it and probably always will also.

They have some of the swipe ones and some of the keypad ones. 

I wonder how long before we all decide we hate going to Freeport and are staying on the ship....

If unsure why risk?

Nice review and lovely pics. Thanks for sharing!

Hopefully this will work for you so that you can all "sit together".

I usually get that error trying to log in to Allstate.  What a hassle.

Share with friends. 

How does price of 12 compare to one from carnival?

Sell the other 10 or 11.

This is the company and pillows.

http://www.harborlinen.com/product-details.cfm?lob_id=13&line_id=79

Is it different at lunch on the first day?

1 minute ago, ed01106 said:

LOL.  That is great. 

Lol

Geez......

25 minutes ago, ed01106 said:

Actual conversation I overheard at McDs the other day. 

 

Customer:  I would like two grilled cheese sandwiches with extra pickles. 

 

Cashier:  We don't sell grilled cheese sandwiches.

 

Customer:  I would like two cheeseburgers with extra pickles hold the beef patty.

 

Cashier:  [calling to manager]  can we sell a cheeseburger without the burger? 

 

Manager:  Yup, hit the cheeseburger button than the hold button than beef patty button. 

 

They should stick to the nicer items and make it only for diamonds. That should fix their issue for a few years.

6 hours ago, jimbo5544 said:

Croc was a couple of years ago, also included were headphones, tervis tumblers, nice backpacks, blankets, wireless speakers.  It is all how you look at it.  

Add in the lanyards and one of these things is not like the other......Lol

Liked the croc visors, I have a few in red and a few in blue.