sanmarcosman

No surprise.

Check in is 16 days prior to sail date for Platinum and Diamond guests for those who may not know.

I had a cruise go missing from my planner in November at the very hour I was due to check in and choose my arrival time. I refreshed the page with no luck. I restarted my computer then went back to carnival.com to my planner and voila, there was the cruise listed in my planner. It's a lousy feeling to see your cruise missing OP and I'm in your corner.

If they let you do this on your recent cruise you were lucky. Two months ago people were being told no pre-ordering the night before and JH confirmed this was correct procedure when he was asked at the time. This may be one of those YMMV things SCPDGTW ( Some Carnival People Don't Get The Word.) 🙂

Born and raised in San Diego County here. California will never reach the levels of Florida departures, we know this, no one said it would. You made it sound like the west coast was just beginning to offer cruise vacations. You should look up the Matson Line that was headquartered there in San Fran near you. They served the Hawaii market for nearly 50 years. That's another " great story " as you would put it.

I first sailed Carnival from San Pedro in 1989 to the Mexican Riviera. Prior to that Princess sailed the " Love Boat " on the same itinerary from SP. The cruise lines have served the California market for decades. It's been so long in fact they offered skeet shooting from the fantail then so I think you missed the mark with "up and coming."

There's some information on this recent thread which may help:

Keep in mind the number of bags varies by the length of the cruise. " Complimentary Wash & Fold laundry service(2 bags on 3-6 day cruises,3 bags on 7-13 day cruises, 5 bags on 14+ day cruises) "

Before posting the figures from Carnival's fact sheet earlier I checked the sheet for a clue to how recently it had been updated. Shaq's Big Chicken was listed there so we know it had to have been updated since the $200 million overhaul when more cabins were added to the ship.

You jest but the capacity figures shown are guests only and do not include crew.

The USCG may want to know of this for it is the authority that establishes maximum capacity based on available seats in lifeboats. Chengkp75 may be by soon to weigh in 😉

TOTAL GUEST CAPACITY: (Including Uppers):3,873

From Carnival website fact sheet for Radiance: CRUISE CAPACITY (2 per cabin):2,984TOTAL GUEST CAPACITY: (Including Uppers):3,873 Where are the 32 persons over the max capacity going to sleep? Really 30 persons as JH listed 2 guests from Cleveland. Also, the 4 day cruises depart on Monday so this is not a 3 day cruise. Still 1,129 guests under the age of 21 some of whom are playing hooky 😉

2,432 Blue cards won't notice a difference 🙂