sanmarcosman

On the Panorama cruise of January 14th I saw guests engaged in quiet activities in the library who were informed they had to vacate the room for the "art" auction. That's plain wrong and shouldn't happen. I'd rather Carnival ban the Park West company from their ships. They don't sell original art, they only sell serigraphs that are licensed by the artist. When they say "limited" artworks they are only limited to the amount they can sell. Google Park West Settlement. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I say if I wanted a copy of the painting Dogs Playing Poker I'd shop on Craig's List or go to a garage sale.

For now. Since Carnival began charging $5 for a third MDR entrée in November they are looking for other ways to trim their food cost. Most of us know how the steak and eggs was degraded to a tough gristle and sinew mess they call strip loin. If enough people " order anything they want" at brunch then changes will come all the sooner.

It's a hybrid of birthday cake and cheesecake and it's the creamiest, richest cheesecake included in the cost of your cruise fare. Carnival serves "cheesecake" type desserts on other days in the lido that have had gelatin mixed in with the cream cheese to lower their food cost. The Funfetti Cheesecake tastes like it's made with 100% Philly cream cheese.

Not into smuggling but my 12 pack of club soda fits perfectly in the brown bags I get at the Polo store at the Carlsbad Outlet Mall. I have never once had my 12 pack opened, inspected or questioned. Never.

This was taken on Pride's sister the Miracle. The balcony won't be as long as this "bowling alley" balcony but the lifeboat positioning will be the same. You can see out, but not down.

Don't know about the celebration cheesecake but the Funfetti cheesecake is our favorite and only served on embarkation day.

You were on the Miracle, right? If you said I must have missed it. Thanks for your review 🙂

It is suspenseful. I'm waiting now on my GTD assignment and I cruise in 4 days.

Carnival says that the removing of our dirty dishes from the hallways is done by the food server teams. We're asked to place our dirty dishes and the tray they rode in on in the hallway with a napkin over it. Not ideal for sure but the stewards may have time to dust if they weren't busy doing unassigned work like busing out our dirty dishes from the cabins.

Auto- exhaust (smoke) is the bigger issue in Mexico. Their motor vehicles aren't required to have catalytic converters and the exhaust smoke not only pollutes it gives people headaches. I don't see the new law being enforced for public tobacco smoking in Mexico. Maybe in a few decades it will happen.

No, they do not. As per above a large window is now there.

Yes, that is a hallway with crew cabins. The door does not slam when opened or closed and I never saw crew in the hallway. There is a round window on the door that reads "Crew Only" so of course I had to look through the glass in case you asked about the empty space 😉

You're welcome, my pleasure. I've enjoyed many of your posts here on CC so I was happy to see it was you asking 🙂 We're sailing Radiance this Monday in a 1A so we can then say we've sailed in a 1A cabin on Holiday Class, Destiny Class, Spirit Class, Fantasy Class, Dream Class and Vista Class all in 1A cabins. I see a pattern. Have fun in October.

I was assigned to this cabin just last week. Heading north out of Cabo there was more banging noise than usual when the bow would come back down on the water. It didn't last too long though and people all over the ship from fore to aft and top to bottom reported the sea conditions were unusually strong. TBH the cabin was dusty so I used many wet wipes to deep clean the cabin before settling in and the carpet was extracted with the wet vac at my request. There were two maintenance situations that I had corrected during the cruise. The switch was out on the bedside night stand and the sink drain stopper wouldn't pop up enough to allow the water to drain quickly. Both reports were attended to in a jiffy and fixed and the lamp switch was replaced with new. Based on this information I think you would be happy in 1202, the deep cleaning has been done for you. I haven't read the whole thread so I may find out you decided to skip this cabin but someone may find this helpful. I took this photo through the left porthole just after arriving in Cabo. At the top you can see a knob of steel pointing at the glass. This is an auto-wash system for the portholes that sprays sudsy water and then rinses the suds for a clearer view. When returning to the ship on the tender look forward to where your cabin is located and you will see the steel pipes that are attached to the hull which carry the water to clean your portholes. 🙂

Most of noise in that part of the ship on Panorama's Deck 2 comes from the kids running and yelling in the hallways going to and from the Family Harbor, TBH.

We sail often from Long Beach. We use one of these sturdy paper Ralph Lauren bags with handles from the outlet store in Carlsbad. It is the perfect size and two 12 packs can fit in it one atop the other.

I thought they totally nailed it.

You could be on to something.

That is strange. The entire Carnival IT department at Miami HQ was dissolved 6 years ago and an overseas company took over. Makes me wonder if this is part of the situation.

My luggage tags have the red tag with Platinum printed on it and not Priority. What gives Carnival? 🙂

My tags stopped showing priority after the restart of cruising. Now there is a red tag at the bottom with Platinum printed on the red tag. There are several things on the website that need to be updated, the priority check in information appears to be one.

I noticed this was changed almost a year ago. To the right of your VIFP number you scratched out it says Platinum so there's that 🙂

From Carnival today: TESTING Cruises of 15 nights or less: Although not required for either vaccinated or unvaccinated guests, we encourage all guests 5 years and older to take a pre-cruise test within three days of their cruise. Cruises of 16 nights or more: Guests age 5 years and older have to present a PCR or antigen test taken within 3 days before sailing (unsupervised self-tests are not accepted). DESTINATION REQUIREMENTS Unvaccinated guests are free to disembark and enjoy their time ashore. However, certain destinations have imposed certain restrictions and we cannot guarantee that more will not be added. Grand Turk and Cartagena, Colombia – age 18 and older will have to remain on board. We will continue to monitor the protocols and requirements of the destinations we visit and will update our guests directly and this page of any changes.

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