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It will probably be a few months but they notify you via emails, postcards,and as I said on their regular website under your profile and offers section. Here's a photo of two postcards we received.

Here's a link for more info on Carnival's Casino program. https://www.carnival.com/casino/carnival-players-club

Carnival's casino program isn't transparent but once you're part of it benefits are actually very good. Whatsmore the casinos are fun, always with the newest slots. One major drawback and a potential deal breaker is the amount of smoke that goes on at the casinos on all Carnival ships, even their newest ones. It honestly is the worst of all the mainstream cruiselines. Celebrity is the best with this since there's no smoking in their casinos, but their casinos aren't half as fun as any on Carnival. What other questions do you have? I'm on a Carnival ship right now, the Panorama, on a casino comp in a balcony. My husband, who's the gambler in the family, got $1,000 Freeplay, and both of us have free drinks EVERYWHERE on the ship. Unlike Royal, Celebrity, NCL, and the new Virgin program that just rolled out, Carnival's casino program doesn't have visible tiers for passengers to play to. Obviously you're ranked internally but you have no idea what that is and no one can tell you what you're ranking is. You can check your casino offers right on Carnival's website under your loyalty program profile. I can answer any questions you have regarding casino comped cruises,and comparisons between the mainstream cruiselines you mentioned.

We have a high powered exhaust fan and still have had the smoke alarm setoff and the security company called. Now I make sure our kitchen back door is open,lol. Not a fan of self outdoor barbequing.

Any cruise with multiple seadays are really meant just to chill and relax. If you can't do that I would advise not doing any cruise itinerary with many seadays. Last year we did a 30 day repositioning cruise on Carnival from Seattle to Brisbane, Australia. The original itinerary was 9 ports of call out of 30 days. Due to weather and other issues we had multiple port cancellations and alterations. Our first port of call after debarking from Seattle was in Japan 12 days later! People were going stir crazy. On our last port of call in Japan, Okinawa,there were multiple guests doing unplanned debarkations even though there were still about 10 more days until Brisbane, Australia. People couldn't handle that many seadays. That cruise was offered free to lots of Carnival casino players. I'm sure the thought of getting a $5,000 cruise for free and seeing Japan and Australia were very enticing to many inexperienced cruisers. So the point of this post is if you're easily bored don't do long cruise with many seadays.

I'm currently on the Carnival Panorama from Long Beach doing the Mexican Riviera. Had a wonderful day yesterday in Puerto Vallarta and we're docked in Mazatlan right now.

Thank you for your post. We'll be on the return TA on SL in November. Has there been any mention of any specific updates/renovations for SL or is it just the required 5 year maintenance drydock?

I usually take mine out of the refrigerator an hour before cooking. As others have said at least they realized the experience wasn't what was advertised.

I'll tell you here for free. 1) Buy a nice ribeye steak 2) have on hand a cast iron skillet or grill pan 3) preheat pan at high heat 4) season steak with sea salt, fresh coarse black pepper, garlic powder 5) grill 4 minutes on each side 6)remove from pan, let rest 5 minutes 7) eat your perfect steak

Since Fairlife is in plastic bottles you won't be able to bring it on board.You can bring on Protein drinks in cans or cartons, like premier protein in cartons. Up to 12 cans/cartons.

There's Muscle Milk at Java Blue Cafe. That's the only protein drink available on carnival ships. I'll check they price for you.

That employee is literally useless considering that's one of the most basic perks of Elite Plus and is a simple question for someone working at the Captains Club desk. I had a similar situation when the Apex first sailed and I had just become Elite Plus and the matre D at Luminae had no idea what I was talking about and was going to charge us for after dinner espressos even though the Elite Plus premium coffee perk applies in Luminae.

That's what chicken paillard is,plain grilled chicken breast. You can't get anything more basic than that. I don't think you can order something that's not on the menu.

Last September we were on a different cruiseline but stopped at the same Hiroshima pier. For us there was a free shuttle bus to the nearest train station. We bought tickets right at the station into Hiroshima city center. Having previously done the Peace Park/memorial and museum we wanted to see other things in Hiroshima. We went to a contemporary arts museum and then right outside of the museum is a wonderful park right in the middle of the city. We then had a great lunch in a nice restaurant in one of the department stores. It was a great day in Hiroshima.

We did 3 b2b2b on the Pride in May/June. '22 for a total of 32 days consecutive days on 1 ship. What was nice was there wasn't any repeat ports ( we could have stayed on for a 4th cruise that wasn't repeats in the Baltics but we decided against it) and we went to many places for the first time, including Bilbao,Spain and the Norwegian fjords. It was a wonderful trip!

Omg. The casino was crazy that whole cruise! It was packed day and night. Due to time changes they actually opened the casino at 4am.

So if you get My time dining yes,every night you need to go into the app and request a reservation. You cannot make the reservations in advance,you need to do it every night. It's more how some restaurants on land where you call right before you go ahead to be put on a waiting list. So on the Celebration you do this on the phone app. On the phone app you choose whether you want to be put on the waiting list for the MDR,Chibang, or Cucina. With YTD your are allowed 1 free visit to Chibang,after that it's an $8/pp cover. Cucina is unlimited. The thing is only MTD can you request to eat at Chibang or Cucina at any time during the night. If you're on fixed early or late and want to eat at either Chibang or Cucina you need to wait until after 7:30 before you can request a table. If you have MTD there's no time restrictions like with early or late. The same 1 free dinner at Chibang applies with early or late seating.

We did the Luminosa repositioning from Seattle to Brisbane. We had several itinerary changes which meant the Alaska ports were eliminated and a supposedly nice Port in the Philippines was also cancelled due to a typhoon but it was still one of the best cruises we've ever done. It became ostensibly a Japan cruise with 5 stops in Japan and a stop in a minor port on Indonesia. Brisbane is a beautiful city with lots to do right in the City Center. I will caution people that consider these long itineraries whether they can REALLY handle so many seadays. The cancellation of the earlier Alaska ports meant our first port after disembarking in Seattle was 12!!! Days later in Japan. There were a lot of people going stir crazy.We heard more people disembarking during our last stop in Japan even though there was 12 more days to reach Brisbane. This cruise was offered fully comped to many casino players,so it was enticing to get a $5,000 cruise for free for many people that may not have had the experience of long cruise itineraries with many, many sea days. The original itinerary was 9 port days out of a 30 day cruise, so people should have known what they were getting when they booked.

What other questions?

You are forgetting about the 3 drawer dresser in both types of rooms. The inside cabins have that one closet while the Oceanview cabins have additional storage: above, below and to the left of the coral display shelf are additional storage. There's plenty of places to your stuff.

Edit: Maybe a whole ship of families are pulling kids on random weeks for a week long vacation 🤷

I'll check.

Areas with large Jewish populations will have next week off since Passover is next week (Passover and Easter are wide apart this year). Having said that I've sailed during Easter week(not purposely) and this cruise is as full with families with kids as an Easter week cruise or a Christmas week cruise (many times purposely for a family Christmas onboard). There's no other explanation unless a whole ship full of families are pulling kids out of school for a one week cruise vacation when Easter was 3 weeks earlier.