Raiderguy8

I just recently heard that and feel dumb I didn't know this before. 😄

I am going to throw this out there as a possible reason how this would happen. By any chance do you have T-Mobile as your carrier? My wife and I were Sprint customers who wanted to change plans and were forced to close out our Sprint account and open a new T-Mobile account. We have been on two cruises since then, on two different cruise lines so it is not solely a Carnival situation, and we would both get email notifications and she would get Facebook and YouTube notifications as well. I cant remember if she could use Facebook messenger or not. These notifications only started happening after we switched to the T-Mobile plan and have been wondering if it was carrier-specific.

I have never truly felt that any comedian on a cruise ship provided entertainment that was on par with what I would expect when paying to go to a comedy club onshore. That changed last week on the Celebration with Tim Young. Thought he was genuinely funny and laughed more in his half hour set then I probably laughed during all other Carnival comedian's sets, that I have seen, combined.

In the air right now flying to Miami from Ohio. This will be our first Christmas cruise and, like you, can't wait!

Do they also serve turkey this way, pressed in the MDR and carved in the buffet, on Christmas or do they not serve turkey at all on that day?

I am curious how the "official ship time" works when crossing the Atlantic with its multiple time zones. Is it keeping the same time (from Southampton?) the entire way? That would be terribly confusing when reaching the final destination port of Miami which would be off by five hours. Maybe they change it on the last day?

I wanted to provide a recent data point. I submitted my OBC request for our December sailing on October 6th and got the approval email on October 30th.

My ships on sticks say they were made either at a company in Miami or another company in Hialeah.

We also like to win one on every ship on which we sail. We were on one of the last cruises that the Fantasy ever did (February 2020) prior to going to the scrap yard and they were giving away medallions to the winners of any game. We were told that they had run out of the ships on stick so, when we got home, we bought a Fantasy ship on stick off of ebay. I always wondered if they had reordered ships on sticks for the Fantasy and somewhere, in some warehouse, there are thousands of them that never got to be used.

On the Sunshine two weeks ago the fun squad members told us that they are giving medallions to winners of trivia and giving ships on sticks to the winners of the games where you pair up with others and form teams. Which, of course, then leads to that awkward discussion over who, out of 8 or so people on the winning team, gets to keep the ship.

My wife and I are on T-Mobile and had a weird experience on the Sunshine two weeks ago that may or may not be related to T-Mobile. We always get the highest level of internet and this had not happened on any other cruise. We will trade the internet between each other and the one of us that wasn't currently connected would still receive notifications from email, YouTube, ring doorbell, etc. If we would click on the notification it would let us know that we couldn't connect because we didn't have internet but we would continue to get the notifications. A point of note, this was the first cruise since our service was switched from Sprint to T-Mobile after they merged so the only thing different was the phone network. I just checked my usage this month and there are no roaming charges on my bill.