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You have encountered the new normal for Carnival. We sail Glory often and eat Sea Day Brunch and MDR as much as possible. The Lido omelet station is still good also. Knowing about the portion size issue we order accordingly. They are happy to bring you two or three of anything. The key to avoiding sitting waiting for additional portions is to order additional up front. That is our new normal.

Just my opinion... I think the announcement of the $500 fine is a small net negative for Carnival. Those who have sailed carnival will know Carnival does not enforce many of its rules. So this announcement will mean little to them, though it may raise some hope and keep some on the verge of leaving waiting to see if this rule is enforced. I doubt it will be enforced with the result being the announcement just delayed customer loss. For some who have not sailed Carnival this will be the first they have heard that there is a problem. The announcement will be a negative with those folks as they are now aware of a problem they did not previously know about. Most of those who have not sailed Carnival will never see the announcement. Unless Carnival publicizes cases where the fine, or worse, was imposed they will have only kept a few current customers staying a bit longer and warned off some potential new customers. If they actually intend to enforce the penalty they would have been better off just changing the cruise contract and enforcing the threats.

You are probably both right. Different names for different times and ships. I vaguely remember as a child sailing when men wore suits to dinner EVERY night. But those were the days sailing was a means of transportation rather than a vacation.

There is absolutely no need for Verifly. Just bring your boarding pass, passport and vaccine record, as they tell you to do even if you use Verifly. But, if you are a masochist, the solution to your problem is to delete Verifly then reinstall the latest version

We sailed the Vista once and decided that was just too big. Strangely we are fine with the Dream class. We mostly sail Conquest class. But the mega ships have no appeal for us.

That's what we have done on four cruises this year, the latest in September.

I suspect you are correct. The recipe and what they actually use in these days of cutbacks can be different things.

We currently avoid B2B these days because of covid. Covid is not that big a deal these days. We have taken six cruises since reopening with several of them last year. But on our September cruise we both came down with covid for the first time within a day or two of getting off the ship. Essentially we had a high fever for a day then felt tired for a couple of days and that was it. But lots of folks are coming back from cruises with covid and we would not want a hunk of our last leg of the B2B to be a drag or spent in quarantine. If you catch it on the ship chances are you won't show symptoms until the very end of the first week or shortly thereafter. So one week is fine, but you risk a rotten second leg on a B2B.

Ours always come about three days after returning. They send them to whatever email you have on file with them. So just wait a bit at this point and write down the names you want to recognize before you forget them.

You had rain in New Orleans? You lucky dog. That is probably the only rain in the state for days. It rained every day all summer then went completely dry.

Well and concisely put chengkp75.

When we get on the ship I generally put our keys in the safe and leave them there until the end of the cruise when I put them in my pants pocket. One time I put the keys in my backpack to go through security getting on the ship and apparently forgot to put them in the safe. When we left I was sitting in one of the waiting areas waiting for our zone to be called and suddenly realized I didn't have the car keys in my pocket. Moment of panic. I was sure the safe was empty. Scramble to look through everything. Found them in my backpack. Perhaps the same thing with them? But why they didn't immediately put them in their pocket I can only imagine. I'm sure a spouse is to blame.

You are the brave one, you will be sailing on Spirit.

I'm not going to even think about it. I will just avoid Spirit. Like I said, over 30 weeks of cruises and I have never seen a roach on a cruise.

Yep! That's all you need. And they tell you to take all those things even if you use Verifly.

I figure it either is or soon will be. That many in one cabin makes me think they are in the walls, ceiling etc. They could catch it early if they were willing to block off that part of the ship and do some heavy fumigation. But my guess is they have the rooms booked and are not going to cancel a bunch of folks. Instead they will probably do spot treatments with the roaches spreading out and away from the danger zone, until the treatment dissipates at which point they will be moving from the new spot treatment areas back to the newly safe areas - an endless cycle.

It was worth waiting for. Thanks for the warning! I won't be sailing on Spirit. We have over 30 cruises on Carnival and have never seen a roach on a ship - at least not the living creature kind.

Is the time you have spent trying to get Verifly set-up greater than 10 seconds per person? If so, you are better off not using it.

I'm salivating for the ugly 😁

Thank you for sharing with us. It has been great!

Well, that's a two edged sword. If she is attractive you feel flattered, if she is not attractive you start to wonder about yourself...

Sleep tight, sleep late.

He's probably referring to the fact the British Royal Family has deep German roots. Queen Victoria was the last monarch of the Royal House of Hanover. She married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, with whom she had nine children. And what became Germany (at one time or another) was made up of lots of small kingdoms with lots of people with royal titles that upper crust British could marry to become "royal." Since WW I made Germany unpopular, in 1917 George V specifically adopted Windsor, not only as the name of the ‘House’ or dynasty, but also as the surname of his family.

"Works" is a term subject to interpretation. If the call goes through but no one ever answers Carnival may well claim it "works" (much like the number to Guest Services) but most would disagree. Likely varies by ship.

"Competent" being the key word. How many financial advisers have told their clients to get out of stocks and bonds this year? I don't mean one who says "get out of this stock that has fallen 25% and buy this one that will be going down 20% with the rest of the market in the next six months."