staceyglow

I would also only be eating my food there, but if the reserver was standing there waiting for me to finish, I might eat really slowly...and as I finished up, I would be watching for others looking for a table and let them know that my table was available.

Send out an email before you leave saying that you won't be answering any work-related messages. That is what I used to do. Or do what I saw online once...someone got a work-related text while he was on vacation and he responded with a picture of his hand making an obscene gesture with a view of the ocean in the background. 🤣

I would be tempted to just pick those up and throw them in the garbage. At a minimum, I would take one off the table I needed and claim ignorance if someone asked about "their" table.

It's not criminal if people are willing to pay it.

We got the toiletry bags on Venezia a couple of weeks ago. They have other uses than toiletry bags. You can use them for mini packing cubes, or as a small bag for small things that you want to put into a larger tote.

On the two Alaska cruises I have been on, there has been plenty of viewing space on the upper decks. I never remember having trouble finding a good place to stand (or even sit) for an amazing view.

I lived in one of the largest cities in the world (yes, even bigger than San Diego 😉) when I did the Chef's Table. Even at $150, it is still very reasonably priced compared to a similar experience in a land-based restaurant.

Will a Brita pitcher remove the extra salt?

Do you know why they are charging $14.95 for water? Because they think people will pay it. Full stop. They serve unlimited, perfectly safe water for free. If you don't want to drink it, that's up to you.

I just got off an 11-day Venezia cruise (not technically a Journeys cruise), and here was the breakfast/lunch situation on the 5 sea days: On 4 of the sea days, Sea Day Brunch was offered. No separate breakfast was offered in an MDR. On one sea day, breakfast was offered in one of the MDRs and there was a separate lunch menu after breakfast was done. It was Mexican-themed. On all 5 sea days, the other MDR offered a lunch menu that I thought was a full step up from what they typically offer for lunch at a Cucina del Capitano. It had 3 salads/soups, about 5 pastas (including a really delicious spaghetti carbonara), and two dessert selections. We at lunch there 3 of the 5 sea days.

They can still check in at the desk, but if they have a smart phone, they will be encouraged to download the app and use it.

Are you diamond or platinum?

If you just made Gold since the last revamp, you don't cruise on Carnival very often. It's called a "loyalty program" for a reason.

People complain about anything and everything. There is no need to let it ruin your day..

It never hurts to ask. They let our son into Club O2 a couple of weeks before his 15th birthday. He had a 17-year-old sister in O2, so I don't know if that made a difference.

That's pretty risky IMO.

I chuckle when I hear Carnival being called the "Walmart of the Seas". I can afford to shop at nicer stores than Walmart, but if Walmart has what I want, I am buying it there. Same with Carnival. It has what I want at a very reasonable price. To pay more somewhere else for appearance's sake is just dumb. And it's one of the reasons I can afford to cruise as often as I do.

I don't believe this for one minute.

That's it! I am going to Camp Carnival and insist that they let me in to play with their stuff and do their craft projects. After all, I paid just as much as those kids!

I have had lunch in the MDR relatively recently on a Journeys cruise. But it was only on one or two of the sea days. They had brunch the other sea days. If your ship has a Cucina del Capitano, there will be a sit down lunch there

Wouldn't you be spending in the casino?

It's even more fun if someone else pays for the drink and you look at it for free! 😄

Then it might just be something they only offer at the Fortune Teller bar, which I believe is only on Excel Class ships (or maybe just Mardi Gras).

I don't believe I have ever heard of that drink. On what ship did you have it?

I have seen plenty of independent tour operators who advertise tours as "shore excursions", even if they start and hour before the ship docks or end after the ship disembarks. This is true even if Carnival is the only ship in port that day. It's up to the person booking the tour to make sure that it fits with the ship's schedule.