Old Fart Cruisers

That's an old reference even for me. Jack Benny always claimed to be 39 years old and holding.

On Board now. Finished with muster. Ready to cruise!

In many countries now nobody looks at your passport, or even touches it. You hold your own passport on a scanner, look into a facial recognition camera, and if everything checks out the gate swings open. There are agents overseeing the process, but in many cases you might not interact with an agent at all. So unlikely you will get very many stamps in the future.

Carnival Spirit

Our flight to Seattle is just 3 1/2 hours from now. We leave tomorrow on a 14-day Alaskan cruise.

Bingo is run by the Casino department even though it isn't in a room that says Casino over the door. And don't say it's run by the cruise director because although they my be moderating the game and calling the numbers, the casino department is still in charge of the game.

I have never had anyone collect or hold any of our bottles. Just keep all four bottles in your cabin on the first cruise. They do all have to be carried on, not put in your checked luggage.

Servers didn't come into the smoke-free annex very often on the Venezia in October.

I just got another survey email today. The button doesn't work so I can't take the survey. I tried it in two different browsers. This is an Alaskan cruise (NOT an Australian cruise) on Carnival Spirit, but the email refers to it as Carnival Spirit-Aus.