CruisinRach

I do love drinking on carnival and always take full advantage of Cheers. I have sailed while pregnant and was worried for a minute how different it may be, but still managed to enjoy and have an amazing time without the alcohol. My husband says it was 1 of his favorite trips and I agree. Just being at sea is the experience.

Morning - cold brew coffee, mocha chocolate getaway, maybe a tomato juice & vodka w/olives 1 morning afternoon - Coors light pre-dinner - chocolate martini after dinner - belvedere w/ seltzer water & lemon lots of seltzer water w/ lemon sprinkled in After watching below deck I cracked and tried an espresso martini, it was very tasty rum punch and local beer on island days

$999

We’ve been bringing the summer 3d lite with us, folds up nicely and fits in the corner. Reclines, has shade and storage, while also being lightweight. It goes on sale, we were able to get our 2nd one for only $70 about 2 yrs ago. Started using it at 6 months, our eldest just became too tall for it right before she turned 5, she is very tall for her age, but it is good for up to 50lbs I think. Plus there’s a cupholder for parents that attaches on the side! https://www.amazon.com/Summer-3Dlite-Convenience-Stroller-Matte/dp/B07NMYWL63/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3BRR70QKO9O7O&keywords=summer%2Binfant%2Bstroller&qid=1706240011&sprefix=Summer%2Binfant%2Bstroller%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.f5122f16-c3e8-4386-bf32-63e904010ad0&th=1

My kids 2 and 4 love the led drawing pads… https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07THCFJMZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1 also, magic ink books my daughter loves princess matching, we stick the tiles/ cards in a ziplock bag

I was just wondering if anyone has rented a villa recently on HMC. We had rented 1 a few years back and loved it and all the amenities when it was only 500. I recall there being a private bathroom in it. I noticed it no longer includes that in the description and was just wondering if that is still there or if it was taken away along with the AC. We’re traveling with another couple and we all have small children, so a bathroom in it would be a huge perk. Just trying to decide if it is still worth the splurge. Thanks so much in advance for any info 😃

We’re using it on an upcoming cruise; I picked the room that I wanted and included all 4 people in it, put a courtesy hold on it and then called the diamond line. They zeroed out the fare of 3rd and 4th guests and I paid my deposit on the call and made it official. Shows up in my booking info with their fare as 0, we still have to pay the taxes/gratuities on them. But the way I did it, I never paid out of pocket for them at all. Hope this helps 😃

Does anyone know what is the earliest arrival appt that you can select for Venezia? Also, about what time they actually start boarding.

I don’t have a pic in an ov room, but here it is in a balcony room on the Legend. I’m pretty sure the room layouts are similar…

Princess Cay and Amber Cove drop off was pretty much when we arrived in the morning, but you had to pick them up before lunch by 11:45. Since we didn’t get into Grand Turk until 11 they had the drop off that day start after lunch at 1 and pick up before dinner by 5. Yeah, they don’t feed the under 2s at all which makes sense. There was a fee for port days for the under 2s, but the 1 day in amber cove when we tried leaving him just to stay onboard and hang by serenity he wasn’t having it. They called us after about 40 mins that he wouldn’t stop crying (17 months) so we picked him up and they told us they weren’t going to charge us since he wasn’t there that long, so I’m not sure how much it was supposed to be. Looking at the schedule for my daughters age group the 2 - 5, they did feed them only on port days not on sea days though. Closed sea days 12 - 2 and 5 - 7. We sail again from Baltimore on Saturday, so I’ll update with new schedules if anything is different. Pre-Covid in 2019 I remember the morning time on some sea days ran for 2 hrs. 8 -10, instead of just the 8-9 for the under 2s. There was an option to stay and play with them for free or you could drop and leave for those 2 hrs and be charged, which our 6 month old allowed us to take advantage of. In August they didn’t offer the morning drop and pay, luckily our kids slept till about 8 most days so we weren’t able to make that 8-9 under 2 window.

Here’s the schedule from the August 20th sailing on the Legend…

I don’t have the regular kids menu, but I have the kids menu from the steakhouse from oct 2021, not the best pic. The starters are Mac n cheese or shrimp cocktail.

I did book it once we were onboard. They didn’t do like a full manicure just really a clip, file and paint, which was perfect for her. They discounted the price of a regular mani for her. They were so nice to her, she loved it. Can’t tell but she’s smiling under that mask!

I guess the activities available really depend on the class of ship, but we did a spirit class with our daughter on her 3rd birthday in October. She loved the splash area, also she liked to hang out in the bench/ foot soaking area of the regular pool and we had fun trying mini golf. I took her to have her nails painted at the spa. We also brought coloring books, a matching game, books, a small new toy, also downloaded movies from disney+ for offline viewing she liked to watch 1 when our 6 month old was napping. She enjoyed hanging out with us on the balcony, looking for fish and dolphins. She likes going out to eat so she enjoyed meals in the dining room and 1 in the steakhouse. She also liked dancing to the live music, she really likes guitars. We took walks and people watched. By time you throw in the heat of the Caribbean and a beach day she was pretty zonked. There’s also an arcade, but we didn’t go in there so I’m not really sure how age appropriate the games are. We’re going again in august and I think we’ll try taking her to 1 of the shows this time since she’s been taking dance classes and so I think she’ll enjoy seeing that. The bigger ships definitely have more options, but even on the smaller ones she really had a wonderful time and can’t wait to go again.

My 3 year old daughter tested positive and was asymptomatic on our October trip on the rapid test the day before debark she was required to take since she cannot be vaccinated yet. My hub, my daughter and I were then given pcrs to confirm. We were negative, she was still positive. They did not pcr test our son who was 6 months at the time. We were moved to new cabins in the quarantine section. We were escorted there by some officers, security and workers in hazmat suits spraying something behind us. They were trying to contain our footprint I guess since they were shutting fire doors around us to lessen the area we were in. We were confined to our cabins, they did give us 2 so we could keep the baby away from her so he wouldn’t get sick, so that was very nice. They gave us free internet and room service, we could even order off the main dining room menus. Our food was brought to us in cardboard containers with wooden disposable utensils. With a big paper mat covering the tray labeled biohazard. Luckily, we had driven to Baltimore from NJ so we were able to drive ourselves home. I’m not sure if they would let you go to the airport, I’m guessing not. They did notify the CDC, as someone from there called us when we were still onboard. Carnival also confirmed with us we had our car and that we were driving home to the address on record, we were told not to make any stops. We were escorted off the ship by an officer and some workers in hazmat suits with a luggage cart last after everyone else was already off. We exited via the loading area of the ship on the bottom level. Another worker in hazmat suit followed behind us spraying steam or a disinfectant I’m not quite sure what it was. They shut down all work on the pier forklifts loading stuff, etc. while we waited on it to meet a custom officer, who was very concerned and wanted to make sure we didn’t want to take our daughter to the hospital. She had no symptoms, so obviously we weren’t going to do that. They did not want my daughter in the terminal building, they had a port agent escort my husband to his vehicle and had him drive it up to meet us on the pier. This was back in October, so things may have changed. Pretty sure they’re still going to quarantine you on the ship though. If our daughter wasn’t required to be tested that day before debark, we wouldn’t have known she had it she had 0 symptoms.