staceyglow

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.

Actually, it's just common courtesy.

What reasonable explanation could there be? Unless you are getting dessert for a dozen or so of your mobility-impaired friends, I certainly can't think of one.

I am pretty sure that the main reason that they don't have trash cans in the public areas is that they want to sort the garbage for proper environmentally appropriate disposal. It's easier to sort it off of a plate or tabletop than out of a garbage can.

Do you take an entire bowl like the OP witnessed?

Princess and Carnival have a lot of policies that are not the same. The management of each cruise line gets to make its own decisions at that level.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Chicken fingers are a BBQ sauce delivery device.

According to a recent post by John Heald, yes.