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I'll be keeping track of how much time the wifi is offline, especially with the premium level promises, and def ask for a credit at the end of the voyage. I consider myself to be an above average tipper (handing out decent amount of cash at the end for anyone who went above and beyond) and I believe in the service charge to help a lot of crew to a point. Especially now that cabin service is once a day a cabin of four is paying almost 40 bucks a day to their cabin steward as a tip. These increases get closer and closer to the BS Las Vegas or resort style service charges. I'm edging closer into the group of these need to be included in the price or reducing them to try to make a point to Carnival. The other group I feel bad for about this increase is the Guest Services team, which I did for years onboard cruise ships. The amount of additional people that will come to adjust or remove the tips entirely will certainly increase. At NCL we got in trouble if a certain % adjusted their tips even though they were not mandatory. I hope Carnival doesn't put that pressure on the Guest Service agents. For anyone who does adjust or remove the tips please make sure you write on the page that you are removing them due to Carnival's increased charge policy and not because of the crew.

If your group has no problem walking I suggest getting your luggage and just walking down the sidewalk to the other terminal. Cabs will be available if needed and since you are going to another ship they might not be too upset about the low fare.

Before covid a standard dry dock would be around 2 weeks. The Pride has a long dry dock but not a mega long dry dock. Based on this, and the bad condition the Pride is in, I would expect her to have most of her Joe Farcus décor removed. So many pieces of the décor are broken in half, missing or cracked without any spares to replace them. They would basically have to remove it. While I like the crazy designs he came up with, I find the Pride to be depressingly dark. Everything has poor lighting and sitting in the atrium feels like sitting in a dark basement to me. The ship's layout is my favorite. I'm hoping no lounge gets converted to more cabins.

One other thing about the Celebration restrooms I found odd..not a single one that I went into had a wastebasket.

Hello! I personally did not but I have a friend that did the Horizon and Vista. At the time they said the internet never lost its connection (unlike the recent Pride TA) but had slow periods at times. I was pleasantly surprised to hear this. I work remote and am planning on working a few days on the Celebration TA coming up and I feel more relieved now that I will at least be able to get and reply to emails. I would *hope* that the Celebration internet will even be better in the post covid world of ship building.

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Some rumors amongst the officers and staff on the Ecstasy's final few sailings is with some Costa ships coming (ones that haven't been announced yet) and some ship shuffling around they suspect the Elation will be sent off to retirement in 2023. (Yes I know they are booking her through 2024 and has a dry dock scheduled in early 2023 as of now..just a rumor from them)

10000% walkable. Its right there.

That is very disappointing about Kauai as I personally believe it is the most beautiful of all the islands. With that said Kona is the cutest little town on the big island. I absolutely love Kona and I think it is well worth the tender ride. Make sure you go to The Kona Inn for a Mai Tai. They are the best I have ever had but if you have two be prepared to take a long nap after. Kona is the perfect port to do it yourself. When you get off the tender platform head down the coast line. Lots of shops, restaurants, museum houses, local items etc. Pick up some Kona Donkey Balls they have about 100 different flavors and are delish.

I have high homes there are no delays but the sea trails are just part of it. Can still have quite a bit of the hotel/resort side of the things needing to be finished like outfitting, interior décor elements etc.

Thanks for sharing your feedback. I agree about the sandwiches being the specialty of Carnival's food. I think when people say they weren't able to find anything to eat onboard they mainly mean it didn't live up to their expectations compared to other cruise line's food quality.

Nope that wasn't me. I'm considering booking her 12 day August sailing out of Dover next month. I still had a great time onboard. Hopefully the old neglected girl gets a nice makeover next year. Love that class of ship. She has some wonderful crew that I'm sure will give you a great experience.

My last time was the TA in May. I wasn't even sure I would trust the lifeboats lol! Even inside my bathroom in my cabin the frame was all rusted out. Crew was great the ship's condition was not.

Based on her current horrendous condition the more weeks in drydock the better! I love the Spirit class of ship and the crew on the Pride was wonderful but she was looking awful. Glad she is finally going to be getting some much needed TLC.

I worked at guest services onboard cruise ships being screamed at by passengers 42 weeks a year but I still love cruising. Quite the different experience! I bet that is part of why he isn't cruising on Carnival though. That might be too much like work for a vacation. I would not sail on a ship I worked on.

Oh you are in for a treat if you book that! The Yacht Club is a wonderful experience and like others have said on here MSC keeps their ships looking stunning. Carnival suites come with almost no perks unlike the other cruise lines. Private pool area, deck area, suite guest restaurants etc. I mentioned in my first reply that the crew on the Pride was wonderful and the itins in Europe are great so I'm sure you will have a great time. However now that my casino offers have dried up I am not booking any new Carnival cruises for the time being. There are much better bangs for your bucks out there for your money.

I was most recently on the Pride during her transatlantic cruise. The crew is A+, food was average for Carnival and we overall had a great time. With that said the condition of the ship is jokingly bad. Even the comedians were calling it the "Tetanus of the Seas" due to the exposed rust. My friends and I were even joking that some of the outer decks and metal fixtures on the Titanic looked better after 100 years under the water. One person in our group had instant buyers remorse when they boarded the ship after coming off some other cruise lines recently but the service and itin is what won him over. So have a good time, enjoy the crew but yes the ship is in awful shape. It was embarrassing being docked next to other cruise line's ships.

A moment of silence for the hard working crew that is assigned to clean the public restrooms around Guy's Burger after this new burger launches.