MadManOfBethesda

23 hours ago, StephPS79 said:

 

I agree, it's people ruining it for everyone, and everyone wants Carnival to do something about it, so they are.  What suggestions do you have for the above bad behavior you mentioned?  Maybe cutting someone off, but that is dicey too.  Being visibly inebriated means you shouldn't be served?  So no one is allowed to be drunk on a cruise?  That doesn't seem realistic.

 

Yes, you're allowed to be drunk on a cruise. You're just not allowed to continue drinking once you're drunk. That doesn't seem to be too unreasonable.

17 hours ago, William142 said:

Expensive buy ins? 1-3 game is 100 to 300 buy in. Same as in every single poker room in the country. Also there are not any profitable pros playing the 1-3 game. They are playing bigger games.

I can't speak for all LV poker rooms, but fwiw, the buy-in for Wynn's $1-$3 has been $100-$500 for at least a decade. But your point stands about not having to worry about too many "pros" in a $1/$3 game. 

15 hours ago, sgttami said:

My beers froze in the fridge on Pride every time I was on and I never stuck anything in the door to keep it open.  

When we were on the Pride two months ago, my wife and I both commented on how cold the mini-fridge was. Having such a cold mini-fridge was an unexpected and pleasant surprise. 

3 hours ago, SweetCinNY said:

I guess I’m surprised because on Norwegian it was taken care of in one contact and I got the restaurant manager’s name/extension to request more.

 

on RC they were in our fridge upon arrival; so expected the same from Carnival—guess I’m not dealing with same caliper cruise line? 🤷‍♀️

Maybe not, but then again, perhaps those cruise lines had those items available already. Carnival can't be expected to go out and purchase specific brands of various food items to satisfy the needs/requirements of every passenger.  And on a related matter, is there any reason that you can't simply bring these items onboard yourself? Especially the Carnation Instant Breakfast?! I'm sure that you would not encounter any problem if you so requested such an accommodation. In fact, I have personal experience with this. Just this past March, I wrote to Carnival at access@carnival.com requesting that my wife and I each be allowed to bring aboard 24 ready-to-drink single-serve cartons of Ensure Nutrition Shakes for our upcoming transatlantic cruise the following month due to our chronic digestive health issues. This request was approved in short order. (As someone else noted, Carnival normally allows only 12 non-alcoholic drinks/pp to be brought onboard.) It never even would have crossed my mind to demand that Carnival provide these drinks to us due to our medical condition! 

And just to be clear...

I'm not the one (or the ones) who made a declarative statement that a drinks on us offer would be for one person only; I simply stated what my experience had been.

5 minutes ago, weezal said:

There are different casino offers 

And your point is....

19 hours ago, dallasdan said:

Your offer is only for you.  

19 hours ago, Elaine5715 said:

The offer is for you only. 

That has not been my experience. In fact, just recently I sailed on a casino offer on Pride's transatlantic cruise and the drinks on us provision specifically stated that it was for me and a companion.

3 hours ago, BlerkOne said:

Tell him to read the T&C.

For what purpose? Nothing changes the fact that I was given the obc. If you're upset that people are being granted shareholder credit when you don't believe they should be, perhaps you should complain to the department that is granting such credit. 

FWIW, I would not have been upset if my request had been denied (as apparently has happened to others), but I'm certainly not going to apologize for receiving it. Or are you of the (ridiculous) opinion that I should refuse to accept it even though they are offering it? 

On 3/28/2023 at 1:30 AM, BermudaBound2014 said:

Like I said, CCL does not allow shareholder benefits with the MOST POPULAR casino offers (which are the free or $100 offers). There are literally dozens of people reporting they have been denied. 

 

 

 

On 3/27/2023 at 6:04 PM, BermudaBound2014 said:

It is my understanding CCL also stopped allowing shareholder benefits to be used with casino offers 😞

On 3/27/2023 at 6:25 PM, BermudaBound2014 said:

When was your most recent request and what was your casino offer?
 

There are many threads on here and social media with dozens of people who have been refused with the $100 pp casino offer. 

On 3/27/2023 at 8:34 PM, BermudaBound2014 said:

Just so we are clear, like rcl, CCL appears to be refusing shareholder OBC for those taking advantage of the post popular Casino offerings. 

Your "understanding" is incorrect. And repeating it over and over doesn't make it any less incorrect.

For the record, I will be boarding Pride next week for a 13-nite transatlantic cruise in a veranda cabin that I booked in February on a $100pp casino offer that included $200obc.  And contrary to your assertions, I applied for and received an additional $100obc as a shareholder benefit.

Conversely, I booked a "free" 13-day transatlantic cruise last week on a casino rate ($100pp with $200 obc) and received an additional shareholder credit of $100 obc two days after I submitted my request.

12 hours ago, dianef said:

By any chance did you book it with FDN code where you paid $100 and got $100 obc

I'm sorry I don't recall. I do remember that when I called the number on the postcard I received in the mail, the agent told me that there were two similar codes that could be applied to the cruise I was booking; they were both $100pp with $200 total obc and "drinks on us" in the casino, but one was for a veranda cabin that was expiring that day, and one was for an outside cabin that wasn't expiring until the end of the month. We chose the veranda cabin even though we weren't sure at that moment if we could go. IIRC, one code had a C in the middle and one code had a D in the middle with the other two letters in the codes being identical. But that's all I remember (and I'm not even positive about that.) I don't see a code on my booking confirmation, but I can ask my pvp the next time I speak with him.

1 hour ago, resetjet said:

And that was with a free room?  Usually $100 with $100obc?

That's exactly what mine was.

On 2/13/2023 at 10:29 AM, 1kaper said:

I had the $100 pp rate with $200 OBC and fun play.  I was turned down the first time I submitted it.  My husband re-submitted it and was approved. 

 

That's similar to the offer I just booked under. Thirteen day April transatlantic in a balcony cabin for $100pp and $200 obc. I then submitted the info for the $100 shareholder credit and was approved. So now we have $300 in obc.

On 2/13/2023 at 12:47 PM, resetjet said:

Waste of time.  It clearly says no in the rules

It may clearly say no in the rules, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is a waste of time, as my recent experience demonstrates.

On 2/16/2023 at 2:03 PM, Big Al 163 said:

We have a cruise in April this year,  i just turned my form in less than 2 weeks ago, and 2 days later our credit was applied to our account.  That was the fastest we ever got it.  Good luck

Same  here. We booked an April transatlantic cruise last week and I received the $100 credit within 2 days of submitting the requisite information. And I wasn't even sure I would qualify for the obc because we booked under a casino rate and only paid $100pp for the cruise itself.

1 hour ago, milepig said:

It appears that you no longer need the test for Greece. Mention is gone from the WS website. I saw some reference to beginning October 5.

That is correct. I'm sailing on a Windstar cruise departing from Athens on October 26th and I was notified last week by Windstar that Greece had dropped the requirement effective immediately.

4 hours ago, BillDz said:

 

Same here. That's why I've carried Amex for so many years. When things go wrong, they cover you. 

 

Amex took care of this chargeback in 1 call and posted the credit in the same billing cycle.

I agree and that's why I've carried my card for 41 years.  BTW, for anyone who has an AmEx Platinum Card (or has been thinking of getting one), AmEx just added a couple of new benefits for the remainder of the year.  They are providing up to a $20 statement credit per month for most streaming services as well as a $20 statement credit per month for wireless telephone services billed directly from U.S. carriers.  I guess they're doing this since we don't have any opportunity to use most of the travel-related benefits at the present time.  That alone comes close to paying the pro-rated monthly cost of the annual fee.

15 hours ago, julig22 said:

 

If you request a chargeback and there is a refund in process, the bank could easily deny your claim.  NCL will be charged a fee, regardless of who wins the case.  If you lose, which is entirely possible because NCL will be able to prove that you made the purchase and offered a refund, you could be out everything.  If they go one step further and ban you, any FCC that they might give you would be unusable (since you are banned).

That's complete and utter nonsense.  You are making things up out of whole cloth and talking (or writing as the case may be) out of the wrong orifice. 

25 minutes ago, summer slope said:

Florida coast guard just announced the cruise ships are to send their passengers to the country the ships are flagged under.  So horrid for the passengers.

It's not the "Florida" Coast Guard, it's the United States Coast Guard.

18 minutes ago, Himself said:

I find this disgusting.  I think HAL should reconsider home porting at Ft. Lauderdale.

Since the United States Coast Guard made the decision with which you disagree, are you suggesting that HAL should home port outside of the U.S.? 

3 hours ago, PATRLR said:

So typical.  Call it fake news and attack the messenger.  When you can provide some facts maybe you can try again to have a discussion on this topic.

QFT

I have found both IRL and online, there is an inverse relationship between IQ and those using the term fake news.

4 hours ago, julian30 said:

Probably a badly worded title but my question is as follows:

 

I paid the deposit and final settlement (in other words, everything) by the same credit card and if I now request a refund back to the card (after 13th April) now that my cruise has been cancelled what happens if NCL goes bankrupt in the 90 day waiting for the refund period? 

 

Will I get refunded by the credit card company under their protection policy? 

Assuming you're in the U.S., the answer is yes.  I don't know the credit card laws in other countries, but in the U.S. you won't have a problem.  And I speak from experience; I had a fully-paid-for cruise booked with Renaissance when they folded shortly after 9/11.  My money was promptly returned to me by AmEx shortly after I notified them of the situation.

On 3/28/2020 at 3:20 PM, coevan said:

 

 

very misleading article

What exactly did you find misleading? I'm not a fan of Fox Business (or Fox in general), but that article seemed pretty fact-based to me.

45 minutes ago, ljason913 said:

Important Update: We have extended the suspension of sailings of our global fleet through May 11, 2020, with some exceptions.

🔗 http://*****/FCCRefund

Important Update: This is the third thread created to announce this "important update."

You may want to heed the words at the top of the page next time: Please look for and post on existing COVID-19 threads before posting a new one.

3 minutes ago, julig22 said:

You are absolutely correct.  And depending on whether or not NCL chooses to follow through, you might be really sorry you did.  You could end up with nothing.

 

https://chargebacks911.com/filing-false-credit-card-dispute/

https://www.elliott.org/blog/do-not-sail-list-banned-from-cruising/

LOL.  No, you can't.

And it's laughable that you think that filing such a dispute would be a false claim.

Just now, hallux said:

I think this is something the "just issue a dispute on the credit card" folks seem to forget.  Also - unless the company fails to make a good-faith effort to compensate for the services not provided can you REALLY claim the dispute?

LOL

If you paid for a cruise and the company has stated that the cruise has been cancelled, then you are entitled to a refund of the amount you paid the credit card company.  I find it humorous that you seem to be having difficulty comprehending that simple concept.

And when you dispute a charge under the FCBA, a temporary credit in the amount of the charge is granted AUTOMATICALLY.  The credit card company then is required to investigate the dispute and will ask the merchant for its side of the dispute.  NCL will eventually get around to processing the requisite refund paperwork in its own good time and then the credit card company will change the "temporary" credit into a permanent chargeback; but in the interim, the OP will already have his money.

27 minutes ago, Ptroxx said:

Link to the law that they are required to give a refund? ? ?   I’m sure everyone here would like to see that.   

Fair Credit Billing Act of 1974.

If you order and pay for a product or service by credit card and it isn't provided, you're entitled to your money back.