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That comes down to what the guests were exposed to, so far it sounds like nobody knows for sure.

OUCH!!!! That stinks.

I wonder if they were forthcoming with the affected passengers about what they were exposed to..... I'd want something a lot more specific than "paint" or "chemicals".

So it sounds like Carnival is attempting to get people to sign away any right to sue for long term health effects. This sounds kind of desperate (and I might add Chicken $H**) on Carnival's part, especially since nobody yet knows whether or not they might have long term effects until they visit their doctor when they get home. This could be especially bad for children.

The linked video addresses BOTH incidents.

I have a similar dilemma, we're sailing on HAL next month and I'll likely have excess gift cards leftover with no opportunity in the foreseeable future to sail with them again. This website was recommended to me for selling gift cards, although I haven't used it yet. https://www.raise.com/sell-gift-cards

DON'T even THINK that. I'm booked on that one and am looking at airline tickets at this very moment. But yes, this news certainly has me worried.

Well, besides Carnival Port Canaveral has Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, Disney, and MSC so other than calling a travel agent your only other option is checking each of those websites to see what's available.

I was on Spirit in March, I believe it was her third trip out after drydock. She had brand new carpet, new upholstery everywhere, and we even had table cloths in the dining room (don't know if they're still doing that or not since that's been discontinued on all the other ships for quite some time). The Spirit Class are my favorite ships with Carnival since you just don't feel as crowded as on the others.

Does anyone here have knowledge of the ship's construction and what could have started a fire up there? All I'm coming up with is accumulated soot in the exhaust stack catching fire, but that's just totally speculation and way too premature.

We were there on our Thanksgiving cruise last year, it was perfectly fine - we did a Carnival excursion.

I'm sure it would be a lot bigger hassle, at least at some ports, if you lost your card before getting through port security.

I sure wouldn't count on it, Carnival internet service is pretty bad (even the so called "premium").

I've yet to see a cruise director make or break a cruise. Not much difference between them, and of course they're all going to be on the PA pushing bingo card sales.

We cruise on Eurodam in about a month. HAL has sent a couple of emails reminding me to enter our flight information, but we haven't bought tickets yet. Is it that big of a deal for them to know my flights? We'll be arriving in Seattle a couple of days early and won't be flying home until the day after we debark. (This will be our first time flying to a cruise, we've always driven to ports in the past).

None of that matters, it all boils down to Carnival's policies (which at the moment say a maximum of 5% unvaxxed).

Hey, at least Carnival has the entire fleet back in operation making money for the corporation. We can all be happy for that. 😬

My recollection is a bit fuzzy, but as I recall "people to people" wasn't the only carve-out that allowed cruise travel to Cuba. It was the easiest, but I'm quite sure not the only way to be allowed to go.

I brought back a few cigars for a couple of neighbors that smoke them (I don't), and also brought back quite a bit of Cuban rum. The three of us from my family that went had a total of 15 bottles of Cuban rum, we had it out in the open coming through customs and were prepared to pay duty on it but the customs officer just waved us through. AND I found Cuban rum at the duty free shop at the port in Cozumel.

I haven't really posted a review of that trip. Our tour lasted 8 hours and included a walking tour of Old Havana, a ballet performance by a community theatre troupe, a driving tour in classic cars (we were in a '59 Pontiac, most of the classic cars participating were from the 50s and early 60s), lunch at a family owned restaurant, and a bus tour of important cultural sites in and around Havana. That evening we went to the Tropicana nightclub, the show was amazing as was the Havana Club rum and Tucola (cane sugar cola). There seems to be a misconception that ALL cars in Cuba are old American cars, that's simply not the case. A fair number of Cubans are car enthusiasts and it's a labor of love for them to restore and maintain their classic cars. There are several clubs dedicated to these classic cars, with members helping each other with parts, labor, etc. There's a show on Discovery On Demand called Cuban Chrome that follows around members of one of these clubs and really shows the kind of difficulties they have obtaining parts with the trade embargo in place.

I just read a news article indicating that the US will reopen travel to Cuba in the next few weeks. I cruised to Cuba on Carnival in 2019 just a few weeks before travel was shut down and had a great trip, can't wait to go again. Hopefully Carnival will be quick in setting up some Cuba cruises.

Do you even know what "woke" means? Woke (/ˈwoʊk/ WOHK) is an English adjective meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination" that originated in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE).

Doubtful, they've certainly known what the tides will be well before they scheduled the itinerary. That certainly sounds feasible. In fact I believe that's what I'm going to blame it on - I saw it on the internet so it must be true. I'm also on that June 11th sailing and not super thrilled with the changes.

And NOBODY would ever dream of printing faked test results so as not to lose several thousand dollars, would they?

That's absolutely nuts. It has to be a pain for the crew as well.