Joe817

Back in 2019, we did an AI, a Carnival excursion, and we loved it. We almost took the Merida tour, then  Chichen Itza, but decided the tour bus to both places took up most of the day. This is a very nice place we stayed at. Here are a few pics:

Never mind. Somehow they all got turned upside down. 

11 minutes ago, CarnivalShips480 said:

During a interview with John Heald, Christine Duffy said that Venezia's cruises will be available for booking on November 14, the first one will be a transatlantic from Barcelona to NYC! It will be in New York year round!

Year round, eh? Well, that's good news, and very interesting! Thanks for passing that along! 👍

I think you'd get more info from the Ports of Departure Board here on Cruise Critic, than here on the Carnival sub-forum. As always ymmv.

Mahogany Bay is a perfect beach day. Take the ski lift(or what ever they call it() and get a beautiful panoramic view of the whole area. Get a heaping plateful of the nachos at Playa Tortuga bar. It's enough for 2 people and then some. Wash it down with some great Honduran beer. 

While in Belize, take the Carnival excursion to the Mayan ruins at Altun Ha. It's a great Mayan ruins tour.  When you get back, you'll have plenty of time to stop at the Thirsty Lizard in the port area. You can't miss it. It's on your right as you exit the tour bus. I fell in love with Belize and the people. In fact, I bought 2 rounds of beer for the tour guides when they walked past. 

I hope you have a GTEAT time! a 5 dayer is so much fun! 

Sure you can. Go here....

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On our Dream cruise this past Sept., we ate in the steakhouse on the 3rd night, and we were offered a free bottle of wine. After talking to our waiter we decided on the red, as both of us ordered the filet. And it was really, really good. But we aren't wine drinkers, but this wine paired perfectly. 

2 hours ago, ProgRockCruiser said:

Duplicate - posted about an hour ago:

 

 

IMO, it's worth repeating over and over. 

27 minutes ago, CruisinChandler said:

FUELFOR22 for 1,000 points

Thanks Chandler! 👍

7 minutes ago, rass2008 said:

Just curious to hear from those who have booked cabin's in a GTY category, when did you receive your cabin assignment? We are 12 days to sailing and still TBA 🙂

The one and only one time I booked a GTY cabin, I got the cabin room number  assignment right after our online check in. But that was back in July, 2019.

One upmanship never ceases to amaze me. 

10 minutes ago, Honolulu Blue said:

"This is the end, beautiful friend..." - The Doors 😪

Incredibly dark song. Very deep and moving. I remember it from Apocalypse Now. 

1 hour ago, Elaine5715 said:

You can use OBC presailing now for purchases

DOH!  You are correct! My bad.  Thanks for correcting me. 

No. You can only use on board credit, via your Sail & Sign card to make purchases. What you CAN do however, is to apply you remaining balance on your gift card TO  your S&S account. We always wait until we get onboard to apply our gift cards.  

1 hour ago, kwokpot said:

One of the worst type of offenders are the ones that say 'I put my stuff down then go have breakfast at the buffet and then come back to my lounger'. WRONG and inconsiderate. Why don't you go have breakfast first, then go and get you lounger? The response is, 'Well, there won't be any loungers available then'. That's because everyone is being inconsiderate and doing the same thing. That's the ONLY reason you see scores of loungers reserved at 8:30am but nobody in them or in the pool. 

If everyone just went to a pool lounger WHEN they needed it rather than trying to reserve one for 6 hours a day there would be constant turnover of loungers and always loungers available. If someone wants a lounger for 6 hours a day and won't be in the lounger all that time then rent one.

^^^^^THIS! 

15 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

Agreed. That's what I do. 

Me too. 

Just now, 1025cruise said:

Back in the day, dinner was a social time that did take an hour plus. Nowadays, everyone just wants to eat and go. I miss the old days.

Agree 100%. As I get older, I find that assigned eating at 6:30 suits us perfectly. Plus, I enjoy having fellowship with our table mates. I enjoy a relaxing meal with good company. For us, it makes for a more enjoyable cruise experience. And I get it that the younger crowd wants to get in and get out as fast as they can, so they can go to the next show or whatever. That's fine to. Just not our style. 

Thanks Chandler & UlCC! 👍

5 minutes ago, kilndude said:

back to the original question . is it ok for the women to wear dress slacks to the dinning room also?

Absolutely! My wife doesn't even bring dresses anymore. 

1 hour ago, Retiredmedic said:

It's 12 "soda's" so I would think so. They didn't even look in our carryon bag in Port Canaveral last week, just ran it trough the x ray and off we went.

In my experience, Carnival will not scoff if you bring less than 12 cans of soda. We did on our first 2 cruises.  

12 minutes ago, Schoifmom said:

Of course.  You can use them to purchase Cruise Cash prior to cruising (remember that this is use it or lose it) or simply apply them at the port, at Guest Services, or using the Kiosk.  No issues at all.  We do it all the time.

As do we. We typically buy enough to pay off our cruise, then use a few to fund our onboard account(sail & sign card). It's worked out great for us. 

2 hours ago, tw67 said:

You are in good company!  Me too!!  

Me 3.

4 minutes ago, sheriday1980 said:

Message sent to doctor to see if I can bring along some "just in case" amoxicillin. Fingers crossed!!

I bring Amoxicillin with me on every cruise. I've experienced no problems what so ever. 

Bravo! Bravo! Excellent review! I enjoyed looking at the pics, and reading your commentary very much! 

Thank you for taking the time to share your cruise with us! 👍👍

Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful. Thanks so much for posting......and the memories for those of us who were fortunate enough to sail on her. Job well done! 👍