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It is luck of the draw.  Sometimes you get something, sometimes not.  Probably doesn't hurt to ask.

On 3/21/2019 at 8:22 AM, dianalo325 said:

I misread this and thought you wrote "creeps" in buffet area LOL!

Me, too.

We get "free" cruises by being a high level in the Players Club from MyChoice/Marquee casinos.  Various Hollywood Casinos, Boomtown in NOLA, L'Aberge, etc.  We are given an inside cabin and upgrade to a balcony.

There is NO expectation of how much we play in the casinos on board.  In fact, we play very little.

Quite different, though, from offers you receive directly from the casino onboard.

Glad to hear you got it changed.  They would have had to sedate me if we were arriving that late.

We seldom get off the ships at ports anymore.  Been there, done that.  My first inclination was that I'd be happy with just going to sea and sailing around for 7 or 10 or whatever days.  But I also enjoy sitting on our balcony at ports watching people or tour boats or whatever.  So I guess we'll just keep on doing what we do.

Sorry, already mentioned above (gratuities).

I was sitting at a table in a buffet at a casino and a woman ran into the table and knocked it and two chairs over.  She didn't know how to back it up so she just sat there.  One foot to the left and I'd have been right in her path.  Her companion was quite upset ... at the scooter.

We were really looking forward to our dinner with officers and while the doctor and one assistant housekeeping manager were nice people, it certainly couldn't compare with our "Most Travelled Passenger" luncheons on Princess.  Ours was in the corner of the Taste dining room.  There were three other ladies plus us two.  There were three no-shows.  We ordered from the regular menu for that night.  Free wine.  And service was slooowww.  I thought perhaps that since this was our first time as Platinum Plus we were kind of on the low end of the totem pole, but one women was only a few points away from Ambassador.

I'm not sure if we'll sign up again.

Anyone else think this OP is writing some kind of book, class assignment, or the like, and using us to do the work for her?

They charge $3  to charge $100 to your cabin's account.  You do it right at the slot machine.  To us, at least, it is worth it.

We had dinner with one of the ship's doctors on the Breakaway and he told me, "no."  They can give you something for pain but that is about it.  They use whoever the port agent recommends.

No one has mentioned the free 7-day inside cabin you get with MyChoice/Marquee casino player clubs at the Elite/Executive Producer levels.   We used it for our recent Breakaway cruise.  We upgraded to a balcony cabin and the entire cost including insurance, port charges, taxes and the cabin with upgrade was $1200.  

2 hours ago, misguy said:

The secret to avoiding the smoke was to go outside on deck 7 and you had a freeway that ran bow to stern with no smoke and no traffic.

 

Geesh.  I never thought of that.

Not sure if this was mentioned or not, but how long of a time was the ship listing?

We haven't been on a Carnival ship in ages and ages so I can't compare them but:

Food was fine, service seemed slow.  We don't do buffets.  The Manhattan Dining Room was nice but I thought Savor and Taste Dining Rooms were a little bland.  Strange decor.  We loved the live entertainment in the Manhattan.

We had a balcony cabin and I was amazed at all the storage space and the size of the bathroom.   The shower was more than adequate.

The balcony was small but accommodated us two quite well.

Our only complaint was the cigarette smoke smell in the casino.  It was overpowering.  And unless you went up a deck and over or down and over you had to pass through it to get from aft to the central atrium area.

23 minutes ago, Visigoth said:

The two beds that they push together do not equal a standard Queen sized bed.  They are slightly wider and slightly shorter than a queen.

Yep.  The wider part was the problem.  The sheet on the bed was no way wide enough to tuck in on the sides.  I know it is a relatively small thing to complain about.

Please stop putting queen size bottom sheets on the pushed together beds.  I despise waking up in the morning sleeping on either horribly bunched up sheets or directly on the mattress.

And don't tell me I should have told our room stewardess to change them.  She couldn't even tell the difference between "Do Not Disturb" and "Make Up the Cabin" much less sheet sizes.

We entered the lot from Convention Center Blvd. and fortunately I saw a sign that said it would be $44 per day.  They directed us to the far rear of the lot to get it changed to the right area ($20 per day) which in our case we were directed to park about 2-3 rows away from Convention Center Blvd.  Apparently the correct way to enter is to drive along side the cruise terminal, cross the railroad tracks at Julia Street, turn right and enter from the back. 

Thank you all for your help.  We finally did find it under the Riverwalk name.

We were walking through a lounge on the POA and I heard someone call my name.  It was a former pastor and his family.

What made it an even "smaller world" was that our tour tickets had somehow been delivered to their cabin.  Our names were nowhere near alike.

Princess.  This was a couple years ago.  What was really upsetting were the guys in t-shirts not being accosted.  My husband had on dress pants, a long sleeve shirt and a tie.

It definitely was NOT the one who took my husband by the arm and dragged him aside because he wasn't wearing a jacket on formal night.  And then tried to squeeze one of the tiny Filipino waiter's jacket on him.

I'd be careful about making sure CUBA wouldn't object.

I remembered a reference to BP with numbers like 14/9 so I googled it.  But I couldn't tell where numbers like that are used.

Not sure how long your longest flight is, but on our many trips from Central Ohio to Sydney, Australia, we would first fly to LA, stay overnight to break up the trip and then fly to Sydney.  The flight from LA to Sydney was about 14 hours.