C.McG

Thank you all for the informative replies. As someone pointed out about booking excursions in another post, since it is a first cruise it is best to spend a little extra money and have peace of mind so that you can focus more on the event rather than the 'what if's...'; for that reason we will swallow the pill and buy the Cheers package, like some in here mentioned, my wife can just get a mocktail or shake on the cheers package, not quite the same value as a $10 or $15 drink but the ability to just focus on the enjoyment of the cruise and then we can calculate how much we may have overspent on each of the packages (drinks, excursions, etc.) after the cruise will help us tailor our next cruise more financially efficient. Thank you all for taking the time to offer feedback.

For those that are hanging on to the fact of him wearing the same clothes day after day, he could have managed to get into the crew area where laundry is processed and obtained a change of clothes or taken some from a laundry bag left in the hallways. He could even still be on the ship, again if he managed to attain access to the crew areas there are a lot of areas which can be hazardous just as trying to hide under a dumb waiter (food lift) and ultimately getting crushed in there. If he managed to obtain a crew uniform he could easily trail a legitimate employee through a secured door. Another angle is he is with a crew member, there are many crew with solo cabins who could be harboring him in their room. I have no evidence to any of these, but just some ideas as to how and why he may still be aboard the ship. For those looking for a sinister plot, maybe he pissed off a cook, telling them how the food on CCL sucks, and so the cook chopped him up and fed him through the waste food disposal system. I'm sure no DNA testing was performed in the kitchens in the short few hours the ship was in port. Ok, that is more than enough for the novelists in here to write a book about!

Thank you for the suggestion, that is what I think we will end up doing. Just applying the cost of the Cheers package to our account. If I manage to drink all of that on the cruise then I figure I won't be caring about too much at that point.

We've just booked a cruise for next year and I was looking at the Cheers package. I am a drinker but my DW does not touch a drop, further she does not drink coffee and such either, just soda and water. I have read people posting about getting Carnival to do the drinks package for just one person in the room but how do they get that offer. Can someone tell me who to contact so that we can get that same deal. Paying almost $1,000 for a 8day cruse means I am going to have to drink myself silly and not even remember I was on a cruise just to make that pay for itself. I also don't want to go the other route and have a surprise drinks bill to settle at the end of the cruise, or constantly worrying about the cost, checking my tab every day to see if I was rather foolish the night before. Any leads on a who to contact would be fantastic. I spoke to my Personal Cruise Consultant (PCC) and they told me that Carnival does not offer a solo drinks package for dual occupancy, but when people have said they got it...I'm inclined to believe that it is maybe something my PCC does not know about or is just not willing to offer.