ViolaSwamp

It amazes me that every time a cruise line's website is down, someone has to come over to CC to vent. There is absolutely nothing we can do guys...

Yes of course sites go down, crud happens. I think it is perfectly acceptable to be annoyed when it happened to be down the ONE time this week I planned to log in and book excursions. It was down for about 20 minutes before I could get in.

Not an earth shattering crisis but a pain since that was the only time DH and I had together this week to review and decide on excursions.

You don't like the vents? Then don't read them. Simple enough?!

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I've been on the site a few times tonight---no problems. It could be that your cache is full. You could try this, either use a different browser (Firefox, IE, etc) if you have one, or clear your "cookies".

No... It was definitely their site, not my browser. I saw a screen that stated, "sorry, we are down for routine maintenance" or some such thing. But it came back up within a short amount of time so all is well with the world :)

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It is toggling back and forth from working, to the photo of the towel animal thingy. I am in now on my laptop, fingers crossed that the site stays up!!

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Tonight I finally sat down with DH so we can select our excursions for our February cruise and wouldn't you know it, CCL's website is down for maintenance. Of course, how lovely, perfect timing.

Annoyed..........!

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Stay on the ship, LOL. I have been to Grand Cayman three times and have never been impressed with that island. It is a tender port which is a PITA.

We snorkeled there once and did see some colorful fish. So that's an option...

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I loved the location of the room. So close to everything. The hot tub they have was AMAZING!!!! It was big and hot and so relaxing. The different rooms they had were all amazing. I just enjoyed everything about it. If I ever cruise again I would get the same exact room.

Thank you for sharing!

I don't particularly enjoy them but I don't hate tenders either.

My one awful tendering story was back on my second RCCL cruise, I think it was at Grand Cayman, the crew had a heck of a time loading a huge morbidly obese woman in a scooter on the tender and it created a terrible delay (30ish minutes just to get her from the ship to the tender) for everyone in line behind her.

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You simply couldn't convince me to use a Carnival PVP because when Carnival screws up, they will not own up to it and honor their promises. At least with Vacations To Go I have someone in my corner outside the food chain that will at least argue my case as opposed to a Carnival employee that has to do what their supervisor tells them.

 

I'm Platinum and recently booked a higher National Cruise Week fare because they were offering a $150 per cabin OBC. I had my TA specifically ask if the full $150 applied to single cabins and the Carnival rep said yes. When I got on board the Freedom, though, they refused to honor the $150 amount and only gave me $75. My VTG TA argued with Carnival to no avail, so he bought $75 in Cruise Cash for me on my second Freedom cruise last week.

 

I sailed 22 days out of 75 on Carnival this fall, but I think it's time I took a break and sail on NCL where they treat their Platinum Guests considerably better.

Ditto this. I have had excellent service from VTG. On my last cruise, CCL didn't acknowledge some OBC I was supposed to have. One email to my TA after the trip, and VTG sent me a check for the amount of the missing OBC the next week. They are great about accommodating my varied booking changes and always include a bottle of champagne for me. Awesome company, I have booked the last five out of my six cruises with them and see no reason to switch.

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I have sailed on the Liberty twice, once in cabin 8249 (quad) and once in 7334 (triple) and I very much preferred the location of 8249 on the verandah deck - very close to the action and QUIET. 7334 was right near the elevator bank, midship, and had the misfortune of hearing passengers thundering by the door all day and night. That cruise made me decide that I definitely like forward cabins MUCH better than midship for that reason!!

Thanks for your review, we will be sailing the Splendor in a couple of months!!

What was your favorite part of the Cloud 9 Spa? We have a spa balcony cabin booked and I'm SUPER excited to enjoy those amenities :D

I posted in another thread that I LOVE this idea. I absolutely worship Dr. Seuss - the first book I taught myself to read was The Cat in the Hat at age 2.5 and I have many of his books downright memorizes by now, thirty-someodd years later. An absolutely brilliant man.

I would absolutely pay the $5/plate breakfast fee for a Seuss experience and I am thrilled that this is debuting on the Splendor, which we'll be sailing (with our 10-year old daughter) in February.

I would love this if I had small children! Dr. Suess was very popular with my kids and me when they were little.

 

Too bad now we have to hear from all the fuddy duddy's on here that will complain that they are getting nothing from this latest announcement and how it will just completely ruin their next cruise :rolleyes:

Right?!?!

I have no problems when people post legitimate critiques of their experience on Carnival - but it is just ridiculous the number of Negative Nancys and Neds who bemoan EVERY change that CCL makes as being the worst thing ever to happen for them, without giving it a chance. Or complaining about items that won't even impact them either way.

SHEESH. Zip it already, people. :rolleyes:

When I was raising my kids, we made sure to skip all things Suess. Nothing like tapping into something from the wayback machine. Next will be Felix the Cat, and Squirrel and Moose.

I feel sorry for your children, to have missed out on the works of such a brilliant, timeless author.

I am really excited about this - I LOVE LOVE LOVE Dr. Seuss - my daughter does too, she has all my old books, the entire Seuss collection, from when I was a girl. Although at age 10 she's technically outgrown that reading level, she hasn't outgrown her love of all things Seuss (me neither :p ).

AND we get to be among the first to try this as it rolls out on the Splendor on February (when we are sailing). I will DEFINITELY pay $5/plate for a Seuss breakfast experience.

YAY - I think this is an excellent move for Carnival. REALLY excited to see it firsthand in less than 3 months now. :D

Thinking about this a bit more... we go to fairly upscale restaurants fairly often. Most of the newer "fancy" dining venues do NOT have tablecloths these days - they go for modern and trendy. The older "fancy" restaurants tend to keep using linens.

I don't care either way as long as the overall ambiance is nice and the food is tasty.

$350 total or per person? If total, I probably would have snagged that deal if I were you.

As long as it looks decent I don't care either way.

Carnival's booking system is down. Maybe it is a different rate code for families.

I wondered what was going on. I was trying to see if there was a price drop on my upcoming cruise to get OBC.

We will be sailing on the Splendor in February with our 10-year old, I am excited to see what's new for her!!

Quad cabin 8249 was a GREAT location. Also had triple cabin 7334 which was a bad location, right by the elevators, tons of noise from people walking by at all hours.

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Thank you for your balanced review. Sorry that you had a bad time.

We will be on the Splendor in February 2014 and are looking forward to it. We have a Spa Balcony cabin so I am really looking forward to using those perks during the cold days down and back.

Zoinks, we have a Spa Balcony cabin on the Splendor in February and I will be crushed if we can't enjoy the perks of the spa the entire time! Hopefully your experience was the exception and not the rule... :eek:

I gained 5 pounds on my last cruise - a 7 nighter. Bound and determined not to do that again this time, it took over a month to lose that weight!!!

I read something somewhere that the desalinization (sp?) process onboard for drinking water doesn't take out all the sea salt, so, I will be bringing bottled water with me. I drink water like a beast, so drinking salty water has to wreak havoc on my water retention issues.

"OH and if you are going to be what you think is sexy and have sex on your balcony, could you please keep your moaning, groaning and swearing to a minimal? There is nothing more repulsive than waking up at 3am to the sounds of someone’s excessive jiggle being smacked outside your window, followed by a-cat-might-be-dying moans. If I can take care of my man without the entire starboard of the Splendor knowing about it, you can too. I just feel bad because so many abruptly awoken people were making fun of your “sexiness.”

This made me LOL!!!!!!!!! :D

I have AT&T and have been to Saint Thomas twice. Both times I've used my BlackBerry there on my balcony for calls, texts, emails and Facebook and have not been charged any international or cruise ship tower fees.

Not even close - our next cruise is in February, will be my sixth, DH's fifth, and DD's third cruise - my third with CCL, DH's and DD's second with CCL. Will be 22 nights total on CCL for me in February. My NEXT cruise after that with Carnival will bump me to the Gold level. Whoopdeedoo! :rolleyes: :p