KarmaCruisers

I was actually shocked I was turned away on formal night for wearing shorts; on the Sky Princess on November cruise. (Never had that happen before) promptly went back to room, threw on jeans and went back, haha.

Lol; to the people who say “why would I give a GIFT to someone, on vacation”..think about all the people have 365+ days on carnival cruises…these people are basically seeing cruise ship employees WAY more than their own families…so to THOSE people, cruise ship employees would become their family. but I agree..I hate giving/getting gifts..CASH IS KING!

Must be nice..but I’d hate to have to fly that much for work..

My very FIRST cruise I actually wanted to buy something (I had been wanting to buy a Godard for a while; having visited his studio in the Rio in Vegas) when I found out how much they wanted for a Godard, I literally laughed in their face and told them “I can get it for a FRACTION of the price, DIRECTLY from his studio in Vegas”..

I’ve seen it be hit and miss.. On a 10-day Alaska cruise on Miracle..the servers damn near followed us around haha on a 3-day Ensenada run on Radiance, there just weren’t enough servers to keep up with the constantly jam-packed casino on a 4-day Catalina run on Radiance; there were too many servers, so my drink would take forever because the FIRST server never came back! (At one point I said screw it and started ordering a shot from every server who came by..lol, I lined up six shots from the six different servers that cycled through before that first order came back) Seems pretty ignorant to have six servers work the same area of slot machines…

Even still; let’s say he was playing $25 per spin..that’s still pushing the button FOUR THOUSAND TIMES…even at a GOOD clip of 5x per minute; let’s even go better and say 400 spins per hour…homie has been pounding it for TEN HOURS! People like this make me wonder..why cruise?? ***** Vegas would treat you MUCH better.

The call-back option worked the best for me.they called back the next day. i think they probably scaled this LOB down to like 1-2 people in Santa Clarita..then maybe a small pod of people in a manila call center.

Sorry to barge in..but I’ve only seen those classic barcrest games on the Splendor..and it was JUST ONE ($1 top dollar IIRC)

Is excel class casinos larger than the dream class? I heard dream class was the largest casino. IIRC Splendor class had a pretty large casino

Yes

I would say YES (sorry that’s the email I meant) but I submitted one last Thursday and still haven’t gotten a response…

Don’t fool around; email casino@carnival.com let then get it all setup for you (or call them) PVP’s seem too stupid or can’t “see” casino offers (YMMV) EDIT: yup that’s what you did

We’ve done this on a fantasy, spirit, and Splendor class; looking forward to more classes if they’re doing this tour again? Pretty neat to see the crew bar area haha although now that folks like Chris Wong have YT channels, there’s less “mystery” to what goes on, on Deck-A and below…

Princess doesn’t have a bar in any of their main theatres (IIRC) that’s a “carnival” thing. (And only on the new/rebuilt main theaters..they actually made their main threaters much smaller, by putting in a bar..so that goes to show you the demographic of carnival)

Haha id take 1Mbps download speed on a cruise ship all day err day! my average speed has been literally 100Kbps! (So 10x slower)

Are those Hey Dude’s? man I wish I didn’t have deformed feet, they look so cool/comfy!

IS carnival sending Radiance to Alaska?? Damn if so, sign me up!

Living in California; we’ve had the opportunity to sail on all the CA ships (Inspiration, Imagination, Splendor, Miracle, Radiance, and Panorama) IMHO; for the 3-4 night runs to Ensenada our little slab-sided girl (the two fantasy ships) were perfect! The Splendor was VERY roomy feeling overall (although odd Pink Donut decor haha) The miracle is OK for 3-4 day runs..but on a 7-10 day on it, it just is too small (only dining choice is MDR, steakhouse or Lido deck) The Radiance is a GREAT ship..honestly for even longer than the 3-4 day runs we have it for. The Panorama (again JMHO) is waaay too cramped to sail on 7 day voyages. All of these ships we’ve been on with 100%+ capacity..the only one we FELT it on, was the panorama..it was just wall-to-wall people and the walkways were all maybe 3-across..throw a wheelchair in there or a scoter and forget it you’ve got a bottleneck. I think carnival should swap around the California fleet 3-4 night LBC runs: Miracle 4 night SF runs: Panorama 7+ night runs: Radiance

That makes me wonder..every C staff I’ve ever known; just has an EA “filter” their email..however it does make me wonder when their email is so broadcasted..perhaps to “people in the know” they have a different email..probably like: Jan@carnival.com John@carnival.com

That’d have to be the WORST..unless maybe on the last night..I can only imagine beer goggles…then being stuck on the same boat as that person for the next X amount of days… if “hook ups” are really a thing on a (normal) cruise..then…call me mindblown. (I understand “speciality” cruises)

You’re right..looked at princess.com just now; and they’re showing up (so Wednesday after we left the ship 4 days ago)

On older ships; there’s exactly ONE outlet in the cabin..on the Royal Class there’s still only one; but at least there’s USB ports by the bed (one on either nightstand) to charge phones. And..they let you take an instant pot onboard!? Are you cooking food in your cabin?

Very specific..what type of room are they? we just got off the Sky, from B530…if I can be of any help?

So I earned a free cruise, from the casino, while onboard the thanksgiving sailing of the Sky. We got off the ship on Saturday. I called the casino dept (which by the way is only open like 8am-6pm PST; as they’re ACTUALLY located in Santa Clarita) The gentleman I spoke (who was also CLEARLY a U.S. citizen) said offers don’t get loaded into the system that quickly; that I need to call back most likely NEXT Wednesday (a full 10 days after sailing) He said, it does seem contradictory that you “only” have 45 days to book it; yet it doesn’t ACTUALLY load until 10 days after it should. (Realistically like 20, because on the offer it says “any time after 11/19/22”; where they got that date I have no idea; other than it was the first day of that thanksgiving cruise)

By “stay in touch” what do you mean? if you just need to be able to answer questions via messaging app (slack or otherwise) it’ll work OK…if you need to be able to connect to a VPN to upload/download files..you’re SOL.