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I understand your concern and while they say you have to bring up any charge issues before disembarking it may be possible to get it fixed. I don't know. But I do know that the time it would take to fix the $23.01 error will be worth much more than $23.01. I would write it off as an educational expense and check my onboard account each day on the Hub app in the future.

The balcony is partially covered and only after something like 4pm when the ship is headed directly away from a sunrise or sunset (and I imagine the reverse in the morning, but we sleep late) will there be no shade up against the room wall. While the balconies on the sides of the ship tend to be mostly full sun or full shade the aft balcony has, in my opinion, a better mix. I think it best meets your desire for shade and probably disappoints sun worshipers.

We were in cabin 7442 on the Glory last month. We generally prefer another area of the ship but decided to try an aft balcony as that was the last area of the ship we had not tried. As you will see below our experience there was not good, but chances are you will not be as unlucky. We had no problems with noise, smells or vibrations. We did not like all the walking that being at the extreme end of the ship entailed. My wife wears one of those fit-bit things and counts steps. She was just under 50% more steps on average than on other Glory cruises (we did six Glory cruises since last September). When we arrived the room was a dump. It was in the worst shape of any room on any of our over 35 cruises. But as I said on another thread: At that point things were looking pretty good. But then we found a major disadvantage of the aft balcony when combined with those Carnival currently solicits as customers. My wife was laying on the lounger on our balcony and some yahoo on deck 10 (the open deck above) decided to see if he could hit her with his chewing tobacco spit. He partly succeeded. We called security (NOT 911, they chew you out for calling that for a non-medical issue - dial 7777, customer service) and they arrived with a ready made story that someone must have been cleaning on the deck above and some water splashed her. When we pointed out the used chew pouch they said sorry and disappeared as fast as possible, nothing they could do. So, use the balcony at your own risk. But cabin 7442 is in great shape.

Get some sleep!

From reopening from covid until a few months ago there was no priority boarding for Platinum or Diamond. Being able to check in two days earlier was the only boarding perk.

And in these days of living on credit many of them can't really afford the expensive things they buy.

Laissez les bons temps rouler

A testament to Carnival's target market these days 😁

We also find Carnival's coffee to be pretty good. Give it a try. I don't recall any complaints on here about it, and God knows everything gets poked and prodded in this forum, as it should be.

Here's a thread for anyone curious about the Norwegian coffee makers: Personally I don't like coffee fixings in my room. Mainly it is because inevitably sugar ends up all over the place. But we have some NCL cruises coming up and my wife is kind of keen on the idea. I'm excited by the fact Norwegian has real milk! For decades I have had either bacon and eggs or cereal for breakfast. On Carnival bacon is not available half the time and cereal with that white dyed water they call low fat milk is a no go.

It's one chocolate delight per person, so you can have two delivered to the room.

It is a valid question, but no one here can answer. Only Carnival could give the real reason. But thinking Carnival would be adding something these days is very wishful thinking. The better question is what will they cut next.

If you are buying jewelry with gem stones it is never wise to buy from any source but a trusted jeweler. The value depends on the quality of the stones and only an expert can determine that. The sales people on a cruise ship only know what they have been told and you don't even know who told them. Hardly a situation creating trust. Find a jeweler on shore from whom friends have bought and had the quality of the stones verified by a separate appraiser if possible. If not, find a jeweler that you think trustworthy, buy something and have it appraised. If it checks out only then put up any substantial money for something from them.

Decide for yourself:

Nor is it required to be positive. The term implies both so folks will point out areas that fall short so others may be aware and prepared and point out areas of excellence so folks may seek them out. Both positive and negative are a service to others and not an indication that the poster is in a constant state of ecstasy or misery.

Keys will be no problem. The Carnival folks on the ship don't care. Just have the two who want to swap rooms go to guest services and they will give them new keys. Folks with upside down pineapples on their door do it all the time.

It has an air about it. If you look at the actual definition of bribe (I posted it once before with attribution to the source but apparently that is against the rules and the post disappeared) it is something offered to induce another to do something. So offering a cruise in return for money is a bribe. Most would just consider that advertising and a purchase but if one is attempting to put a negative connotation on it the word bribe does the job. There is a big difference between a "bribe" and an "illegal bribe."

Imagine going to a place set aside for criticism and being dumbfounded to find criticism. 🙄

It was the Glory, but what followed was amazing. The next day (first full day) I took pictures and went down to guest services. I told them the room was a dump and showed them the pictures. I said the two most important things were not a problem as the room was clean and had no bugs but I would be complaining on the post cruise survey and it always asks if you told anyone about a problem so I was telling them. Well, next time we went by the room the "floor supervisor" come by to check things out. Later that day we again went by the room and a couple of guys were removing the most badly worn chair and replacing it with a chair in good shape. Later when we went by the room there were four guys there fixing things. Guys were there most of the day. By the end of the day they had replaced the rusting soap dish, repaired the mirrors that had desilvering damage, fixed the wallpaper, cleaned the light diffusers to like new condition, cleaned smudges on the walls, repainted the dividing panels on the balcony (which had been a corroded mess), fixed the balcony door and door lock, and on and on. I was truly impressed. They had that room in very good condition. The next day they left a card in the room asking me go go by guest services. I did. They were following up to make sure everything was OK. The guy that was there pulled up information on his computer, looked at it for a while then said, "You've made this a great room for the next guest." It's a shame they don't maintain the rooms until a customer complains, but they made that room better than I could have hoped.

Oh! That's an easy one - it was just a month ago. We arrived to our aft balcony room to find it a complete dump - peeling wallpaper, rusting soap dish in the shower, yellow stains on the light diffusers in the bathroom, holes worn through the fabric of the chairs and on and on. It was so bad my wife said she hadn't been in a room like that since Airline highway. (We started dating when she was a sophomore and I was a junior in high school. By the time I went to LSU, when I came in on weekends we may, on occasion, have made use of cheap motels on Airline Highway like those favored by Jimmy Swaggart.) Later that night I was at the casino bar and my wife came up and in substance said she had a cheap room with a few hours left on it and did I have enough cash to pay for a good time. Well, YES! It was about our bestest Carnival experience. But a couple of tips for you guys: 1. à la carte pricing is a trap unless you can really resist the up sell, 2. you have no negotiating leverage. I have no idea what going rates are but thank God I quickly realized that saying she was charging WAY above going rates would exact a huge price for years to come.

I think you were on Carnival Candid Camera. You will be causing folks to fall off the sports bar bar stools fleetwide soon. (No royalty, read your cruise contract.)

I am not a fan of "open" decks that have high glass along the railing. I like open decks that are like deck three on the Conquest class where I can lean on the rail and see and feel the ocean. Looking at the ocean through dirty glass is perhaps worse than just sitting in my room watching the ocean on the TV, and you can't take decent pictures through that glass.

If there were anyone present I would either not masticate or not need to...

Thanks for the update. We are in the process of moving mostly to NCL having only cruised Carnival since 2001. We haven't done more than book with NCL yet so your feedback is encouraging.

Hi trummy! As often happens here, your simple question has turned into a major "what is the meaning of life" level thing. The simple answer is that buying 100 shares of Carnival stock (symbol CCL) is easy but a bit tedious. A hundred shares as of Friday's close would cost you about $1,015 bucks and if you are looking to buy just for the shareholder OBC it us not an unreasonable thing to do, recognizing the price of the stock may eventually go to zero but hoping to get at least eleven shareholder OBCs before that happens and maybe even someday making money on the stock. The first step is to establish an account with a broker who can buy the shares off one of the stock exchanges for you. Any stock broker can do that but these days a number of them will do it without charging you a commission. I have accounts at Morgan Stanley for my investment accounts, but they charge commissions. I also have an account at TD Ameritrade for my short term trading since they do not charge commissions. So search for TD Ameritrade or other such "discount" broker on-line and go to their site and click on "open an account." Then when they ask what kind of account you can pick "individual" if the account will be in your name only or "joint tenant" if you want it to be jointly owned with another, such as your wife. Then just follow the prompts. Once your account is established you will need to put money into it to cover the cost of the stock you buy. To do that log into your new account and search for "Deposits" or "Transfers" or something similar. On TD Ameritrade you just click on "My Account" at the top then click on "Deposits" in the sub-menu and they will tell you about all the options. The easiest is "ACH" and once you have that set up transferring funds from your bank account to your stock account or from your stock account to your bank account is really easy. If all you want to do is buy 100 shares of CCL then check the current price of CCL, multiply by 100 then transfer about ten percent more than that from your bank to your stock account. The ten percent extra is because it may be a day or two before your broker gets the funds from the bank and the price of the stock will be different by then. Once your funds have arrived in your stock account check that the amount will cover the cost of 100 shares and if it will then go to the "trade" section of the web site and pick "stocks" as what you want to trade. You will enter "buy" for the action, 100 for the quantity, CCL for the stock symbol, pick "market" for order type and "day" for the time in force. Then you hit "review order" or "next" or whatever your broker calls the next step. After reviewing the information to make sure the everything is right, especially how much it will cost, just hit enter. If you did all this while the market was open then in a few seconds you will get confirmation of what you bought and the cost. If you did this after the market closed the stock will be bought at market open the next day (or next trading day if it was after the market closed Friday). The cost of the stock should have been less than the funds you put into your stock account. If you want you can ACH the excess funds back to your bank account.