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Yes

Some debt will evaporate end of year as unused Goodwill FCC will expire but leaves them debt heavy / extremely low fares (my next 10 day balcony cruise is 1325 & EZAIR is 614. No way those fares should be that close with current fuel costs) / 2nd wallets were wide open last summer but not so much now. My thoughts: > Not Diamond, Sapphire, or Coral. Not really small ships at 2k capacity but close. Not oldest in fleet So with shifting 2 Costa vessels into Carnival Cruise Lines, does that free up Carnival Elation & Paradise for the auction block?? Ages of oldest still in fleet: 1997: POAU Explorer 1998: Carnival Elation & Paradise 1999: HAL MS Volendam 2000: HAL MS Zaandam 2000: PO Aurora

My perspective: I booked a TA on the previous $1 sale. Just repriced 2 weeks ago bc my preferred zone opened up, dropped price 1k, this time secured with FCD, got 200 OBC, and my $1 showed up as a refund 2 days later. Now looking for a 2023 summer voyage

Weird autocorrect. Coffee's for morning. Tea's for afternoon

I just order a modified tea for 3pm. My taste buds love tea, scones, cream, marmalade, sandwiches on my balcony. They bring a full carafe of very hot coffee, small pot for steeping tea, and milk. No idea why milk. I'm drinking tea. My waistline not so happy with the set up

Yeah but I couldn't get rid of a few screens of death yesterday and they're gone today.

I believe they DO monitor them. Yes, it's a message board. I sincerely HOPE they do as a way to monitor sentiment not to propose changes. Don't all large companies watch msg boards? (FB, Twitter, FIRE.org, Cruise Critic)

Also a number of FCC will expire worthless 12/31/22. Think of all those cruisers who didn't monitor the order their FCC were applied

Early this week it took 2 hrs to be applied to a refared cruise. Today it took an hour. So, @dmcfad2 if you still don't have it, submit again Monday with a new month end brokerage stmt. I think mine was applied so fast bc it was a trade confirmation

Do you think PCL noted ages of those who requested ATD vs TD prior to change?

Time to sell a few more??

I got OBC added same day last 2 times (Tuesday & today) when I faxed it in. They will accept purchase confirmation, don't need to wait for month end stmt

But is there a correct answer for all? @Zeno There were 2 Dress-to-Impress and 1 Formal night on my last 15 day cruise.

Maybe that's why I have 1 table / servers / HW. So I only have to state once "vegetarian (think vegan with dairy) & no pepper." It hasn't been an issue. But the 4 some on the table to my right & 2 some on the table on my left had no issues. But we asked the DRO to let us be there every night.

Try October 28th

I bought tweezers & toothpaste on my last cruise. (2.49+3.00)-15%. 🤑

> clothes (RH Lauren & Lauren. Tons of jean versions onboard & they're selling well at $120 each). Notice how many more clothing stores are in the new ships (Discovery & Enchanted) and how sundries has been minimized? (Kids buy stuffies & clothes / Seniors buy sundries) > jewelry (young adults -> 40s) > teddy bears (there's a dz versions now) > 3rd or 4th person in a room where there's no cost to PCL for the room but they're still paying full gratuities > buying soda pkgs or Premier upgrade & drinking only 1-2 sodas a day that costs PCL pennies per glass. Much MUCH higher profit margin. It's all about the profit margin > parents unable to drink as much on the ➕ option bc they need to be awake. Elders can drink their allotment so lower profit margin on seniors I'm not saying you personally aren't spending as much as before but I haven't bought jewelry onboard since my 10th cruise and only 2 auction pieces ever ---- booking my 40th so when I do the math / my 40s kids spend more per cruise than me As to affordability: the 25yo has made more in the 1st 9 months of this year than I made in all of my final working year. I wasn't underpaid

So glad you're safe.

As long as I can have a wish list can I be 29 again with the free time & financial resources I now have??

Suggest Premier Elite: 1. 1000 days 2. Bouquet (retail value $50) each cruise (minimal staff time. Staff time = $$$) 3. 1 specialty breakfast

EXACTLY!! I used to joke that I spent more at Sbux then the grocery store (it was true) then it became less enjoyable so I now go elsewhere. I am less valuable to CCL than a newer customer as I spend less onboard which each subsequent cruise. (Booking my 41st cruise today)

Correct. When they comped me for missing a port when I needed to reserve my time in WhyLine I was comped 24 hrs. Cannot comp for less than that

Hi Izena. Check I need in. No loss but no gain. Barely following but thats due to high holidays. I'm missing something. Drain??

Monday I pulled my current holdings up on my Droid, took a screenshot (landscape view), stuck it in the bottom of the form, emailed via fax zero, and had it 2 hrs later. Obviously I owned it at that point in time (still do) as it had the website address on the top of the screenshot. So easy.

Scaling the rhetoric back (ignoring it), Carnival Corp is a business and as such has determined that removing this 'benefit' affects maybe 1-2 bookings per ship. Yes it affects many here (apparently). Yes most seniors can only afford maybe 1 cruise a year (doesn't mean all just most). Yes it needs to attract more (& YOUNGER) 1st-3rd time cruisers who spend more (on average) then those who take 6-8-12 cruises per year. Yes onboard spending is more profitable than cruise fares [especially at the current prices]. Yes their shop selections are changing and jacking up prices 20% / discounting 15% / negating elite 10% discount. Yes I look for them jacking up onboard medical services. If anyone has cash value FCC and would prefer to cruise on another line due to the loss of the milestone recognition they can cash it in and cruise on Viking. RCCL, NCL, and MSC are also slimming down their perks / suffering with poor wifi / changing. It's not just CCL But, I repeat, Carnival Corp is a business. And as a shareholder who really likes my shareholder OBC, kudos