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How could there possibly be problems? After all it has the Medallion technology! 🤣🤦‍♂️

That is why I let our TA figure the amount we need to insure.

We were once on a HAL ship. I joined the roll call that had just the poster that had started the roll call. No one else ever joined. He joked that as the only ones aboard both our parties would be upgraded to suites. I joked back that they would probably cancel the cruise with only 4 passengers. And of course neither happened.

I agree. I saw an important e-mail from NCL and wondered what terrible message could this be. Did our 2023 Prima cruise which we picked for the itinerary have its itinerary changed? Or was it cancelled (maybe chartered)? Instead I got the message about testing no longer required to fly back to the US. That might have been very relevant if our cruise was this summer, but who knows what rule changes will go into affect before the summer of 2023?

Again, I do not think you will get it, but you really won't waste much time. The message will be due to high call volume expect a longer then usual wait. And then it will say your expected wait time is 2 minutes. 🤣

That is a very common sense approach.

Yes, why even wait for the final payment date? We have also applied right away after booking.

Not platinum, but I have found AMEX customer service also quite helpful. When I said they could not add offers, I was going by past posts I have read over the years from posters who had tried and failed to have offers added.

I do not believe they can do that, but other than wasting some time, I guess it cannot hurt to try.

Mostly older, but the Mardi Gras is their newest ship, correct?

Please let us know what their response is. If they are dishonest about the feedback from their clients about the ship, I would not trust that agency. (But of course you cannot let us know who they are by cc rules.)

I think the question should be do they believe the feedback from passengers who say the will never come back.

But if you read the brochures they send out in the mail, you do have the greatest invention since the wheel, the Medallion.

And if you go through the Princess boards, you will also find a lot of complaints about the present experience on Princess! For instance, if you read about the Crown Princess, you will weep!

So, the new ships have phased out of the best things that makes Carnival unique?

We were able in St. Petersburg to buy enough nesting dolls to have Christmas presents for the entire family.

That is strange. Do they get no feedback from their customers?

No, I see making sure hospital staffing is not below a dangerous level a protection for any of us who may at some point need to be hospitalized. I don't see where protecting lawyers' fees is for anyone's benefit other than lawyers. And without her unique for legislators experience, no bill like this would pass, let alone even be proposed.

I was quoting @Eli_6 but somehow the post went through without me being able to write what I wished to write. So, here goes. Lawyers looking out for lawyers, the way of the world. As the great, late Warren Zevon wrote and sang: "Send lawyers, guns, and money." I am proud to say that my representative in the NY legislature is NOT a lawyer. She (and I know her because our son and one of her daughters went to school together) is a NURSE. She has wrote legislation mandating standards for staffing at hospitals. In other words, she has looked out for common people, not just fellow lawyers.

How do attorneys do compared to stockholders? Probably rather well.

My apologies for posting what turned out to be a misleading article. Thankfully there are those in the know who could correct the impression it gave. I do believe The Points Guy is usually more reliable than this.

It is only the attorneys that make out like bandits.

And this is the new way the world works.

We felt lucky when we picked a cruise that had alternate weeks with Berlin as a "port" and Olso that we had an Oslo week instead of that journey to get to the alleged port city. (We actually picked the date because it included our wedding anniversary, but Oslo which we very much enjoyed was a bonus.)