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The Hilton is our go to hotel for cruises out of Port Canerval. While we live in Jacksonville. For Sunday cruises we like to drive down on Saturday so we can watch the ships leave that day. We have nevet had a bad experience at the Hilton but it has been a couple of years since our last stay.

They just announced they are transitioning to a salvage operation That implies to me that the will be removing steel keeping in account there sre still bodies present.

look up Sunshine Skyway bridge.

On shore restaurant buffets "require" you to get a fresh plate when returning. This isn't a restaurant policy but a health department rule.

We have never had problems getting a pair of free chairs with free umbrella on the beach. One hint is to pass by the first beach and walk a bit further for less crowded optons. Ahh seagulls or as I call them rsts with wings. Living fairly close to the beach here in Florida I can tell the mon locals as they are feeding the rats err seagulls. There have had to ask people to stop feeding them when the people are upwind of us.

Ialso think they were at Universal. At a theatre where the Hard Rock is at now at City Walk.

Cruise lines and their stockholders beg to differ with you. Charge what the market will bare. Over the years I adjust my spending. For example I had been a Disney annual passholder. I did Universal for the first time in years. I throughly enjoyed it. I felt that price/value for Universal was better over Disney for me. So I switch to Universal annual passes. I don't begrudge Disney charging what they do. Obviously other people don't feel my sentiments. So they continue to go to Disney. Neither of us are right or wrong.

If people are willing to pay the current fares then RCCL doesn't think they are way overpriced. It is how the free market works. Basic economics.

Simple: They think people will still buy it at the new higher price no matter what Carnival is psying for it.

I have cameras that use rechargeable batteries. I simply buy a spare battery. Have both of them fully charged before leaving the ship. I have very rarely needed the backup battery and I take a lot of photographs.

Any reason why you couldn't "unstick them". If asked you can say you were just trying to be helpful.

I imagine ships operate like on shore resorts. They have a central stores which supplies the various venues. Someone goes to the central store and signs out what they need/taking. For example part of my job was to figure how much oj we would need until the next day or to get through the weekend. I would then get the items. In between if we ran out tough luck we were out until the next day.

Dream is my favorite show of any cruise I have ever been on. I tell people if you don't do anything else, see that show.

There are several reasons as mentioned above. Size of ship Nassau is an example of this. The larger ships have to dock at the outer berths. And I think St Thomas has this limitation Historically, some cruise lines have preference. Cozumel is an example of this. Carnival "controlled" on set of piers so other cruise lines have to use the set of piers further out. Then there is local decisions about when/where ships can dock

About the refinery. Back in the day when it was still operating periodically Carnival ships would have a port of call stop for St Croix listed in the on board "patter" for between midnight an 2am or there abouts. Obviously it wasn't for passegers but for the ship to take on fuel due to lower costs.

I simply say no, I am not interested. On all of the cruises I have been where I had a massage this has worked.

People keep on mentioning "treading" water. When I took swimming lesson when I was a youngster, they tought us how to tread water by moving arms and/or hands. They also taught us that you do not have to tread water. You can lay on your back or front and float. If you this you are burning a lot less energy than treading water. Also the more saline the water is the easier it is to float.Look up tours that go to the Dead Sea. One of the selling points is the ability to float because of the extremely high salinity of the water.

Was this policy before covid or post covid. On RCCL precovid sometime during the cruise the captain would announce that that they were sail some percentage of capacity, usually 105 percent but sometimes as 110 percent. Haven't sail on RCCL post covid so don't kow if they are announcing are not.

In regards to the 17 oz size, this is kind of quilivent to 500 ml. Many bottled waters of this size list the 500 ml more promentity than the ounces

There is also the lifeboat requirements. If you fill that space with cabins, there is just so much space to add lifeboats or life rafts to accomdate the additional passengers and the additional crew that services those cabins

The different cruise lines have adopted ideas from each other for years and years. This no different.

Well you are correct about a big problem. The person will eventually will be allowed to get back to the US. It may take several days to get it ironed out and perhaps going to another city that has an US embassy/consulate.

As someone above mentioned earlier. Costa did sail ship(s) out of North America. While still primary marketed to the European market, they did market to North America. I actually did some researh on them back then. The comments were very mixed. So took a pass. Not sure if things have changed over the years and if the carnivalization will further affect things

Give it a day or two. They probably did a fare update over the weekend.and may miss enterered some info. Alternatively call RCCL directly and talk to one of their agents

This topic comes up periodically. Carnival is not the only the cruises line that does this. Since this was instituted years ago, I have never heard of any issues even among competing non Carnival cruise lines.