Essiesmom

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You can use the link on the Carnival board page to read what people are saying about Freedom. In the upper left, just under Find your Carnival roll call, you will see Find posts about and ‘find ship’ which will give you a drop down list to choose your ship. It will give you the most recent threads about her, including yours. EM

I just did it on my iPad . EM

There are pics of many of those cabins on cruisedeckplans. I submitted many from Summit and Millie. EM

Eurodam sails today from Seattle.

Did you look at cruisedeckplans, as I suggested? I think you will find what you are looking for there, on the home page for each cruise line. EM

Portofino and Kotor are tender ports. Your wife may not be able to get off the ship at all there. There is dock area in Kotor, our captain on Nieuw Amsterdam was able to sweet talk them into letting us dock, only ship in that day. The next year on Silhouette we tendered. If you can get ashore just walking the old walled city is wonderful, though cobblestones may be rough. I have never been to portofino. EaM

I went to an urgent care center to get tested March 29 for a cruise March 31. I had to schedule, they treat it like a clinic visit. I’m pretty rural, cvs only does PCR here. A few weeks later I received a statement, either from Medicare or Tricare that the cost was $271 and no one had covered it. I also have fepBlue. But I never received a bill from anyone. EM

Did you book these cruises at different times? And as gty, I presume. It could be that they did not have any cabins left in your category that could be assigned for both cruises. I once booked a last minute B2B Alaska cruise as an inside gty, solo. They assigned me a huge HC cabin. I asked my TA about it, and she said they knew I didn’t need HC but it was the only one available for both weeks. I felt guilty rattling around in all that space. EM

He king the cabins with pics available on cruisedeckplans, those that are accessible , the most aft cabins that look larger. The other cabin with pics was 8066, a sideways cabin, so I assume the same cabin on port side, 8566, would be the same. EM

Go to www.cruisedeckplans.com. They list the cruise lines that sail regular cruises with some niche exceptions. Choose your cruise line and the first page for that line will show each ship with the basic statistics: age,size, occupancy, etc. it’s a start. EM

We have a board here for this. It’s called Florida Departures, under North American Homeports. EM

You aren’t close to the engines anywhere. But aft cabins can suffer from vibration from the thrusters when docking. Far forward and low can have thruster noise, and anchor noise. If you have decks above and below you, you should have less noise. Most noise from entertainment ends by 11pm. No cabin is absolutely silent. There is always noise from the vents, sort of like white noise. EM

Tables with umbrellas were free last time I was there. EM

You should post this also on the Florida departures board under North American Homeports. EM

You can download and print out the forms from the website, then take them to the post office with required documents. That includes a birth certificate. Make sure it is a long form, with parents names…and also not the souvenir certificate from the hospital. I never had a real birth certificate until I was retiring. Thought social security might want to see one, so I ordered one through Vital Check. What came was the short form. But I had had passports since 1970, and used a form that said Notification of Birth Registration. Not only did it get me my first passport, but it got me into the army twice. EM

Welcome to cruise critic. One of the major rules of CC, you cannot name or discuss travel agencies or agents. You might click on the three little dots in the upper right corner of you post, and report…ask the mods to please delete agency names. Also, as all of your questions involve one ship one one line, it is best to post your questions on the board here for that line. A new member might be excused for thinking all those forums under Cruise Lines A-O, etc, are direct links to the cruise line websites. But they are boards where people who sail those lines ask questions and share their experiences. EM For seasickness, I wear sea bands.

For your ports, get a copy of Rick Steve’s’ Mediterranean Cruise Ports. He tells you what there is to do in the port, how to DIY it, and how much you can do in the time you have. He also has one for Scandinavian and Northern European Cruise Ports. For the few ports he doesn’t cover in those books, he recommends Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet is good because you don’t have to buy the whole book, you can go to their website, purchase and download only the chapters you need. Rick Steve’s also has free audio tours to download from his website, and maps to print out. EM

Depends on the numbers. When we had large numbers, CBP came onboard and did us, but with smaller numbers we had to get off. EM

There are a dozen threads on every cruise line forum asking the same question. There are no definitive numbers. Scroll down the pages to see what others have said. EM

Does your child get carsick? If so, what do you do? Children that young do not get seasick, as a generalization. Think of all the time they are carried around, bounced on knees…EM

I see Millie is sailing two different itineraries from San Juan. Only repeated port is Barbados. Too bad you can’t do a B2B. EM

It’s not MSC that requires the zero count, it is US immigration. EM

Getting on the ship in Seattle and leaving in Victoria (Canada) is not a violation of the PVSA. It screws up the manifest for a closed loop cruise, making more paperwork for the cruise line, but there is NO violation. EM

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I booked a cabin for a TA as a solo, paying the double rate. When I added my sister, it only cost the taxes, etc. EM