cruisinmeme

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One of the things we really missed was the rib eye in one dinning room and New York strip in the other every night. Now have some cheaper cut I have never even heard of. Prime rib only one night rather than twice. Although there was a night with something similar to it one night. The lobster is gone as many has said.

We were in a suite. The flowers are gone. Fruit was old and useless.

Seemed to be less employees.

No chocolate buffet

This is just a few things. None of which effected us in a negative make it or break it way.

Just got off dawn today. Will tell you we had a leak on the big window in suite

SJ. 12018

Had Carlos as cabin Stewart and gian. Both were great..

Noticed lots of cutbacks since last November.

I can tell you that this year's BA thanksgiving cruise dropped considerably ( as have most BA sailings) now-about 2-4 weeks before travel

Let me be stupid here, but what is BA mean?

I have seen the prices drop on most cabins, just not ours.

That is a great price! I priced that suite for next Thanksgiving and it was $1000 more than your price! We are spoiled though - we had a 2 br family suite and I'm not sure we could go back to one room! Do the suites on the Dawn tend to sell out? I considered booking the SJ just to get on the ship and then upgrade from there.

Yes they sell out fast. Check it out , only cabins remaining are completely forward. I did a mock booking for next thanksgiving and for 4 people it was like 700.00 more. Didn't I see something about receiving 10% off cruise cost. Some weird sale. If so that would work out nice.

Cruisinmeme - we are interested in booking a suite. Could you share what you booked and the price you paid? Thanks!

For our cruise in one week:

Ncl dawn. SJ suite. Family suite no balcony

1249. Pp guest 1&2

299. Pp guest 3&4

Total tax just under 400.00

So apprx 3496. For 4 people

With. 450.00 OBC

We booked this December 26,2012 or november 23,2014. 23 months out!!!

This is our second SJ suite. Personally we love it. The kids love the wall of windows. They leave the curtain open at night.

First time we had a SJ suite we had 3 grandkids. Had plenty of space. This time it will be just two of them. They have said they would sleep together on the sofa bed. That way we want pull out the Murphy bed. It does get crowded at night with all that. The table was large and we had 5 chairs.

We were concerned about being on deck 12 and forward, no issue at all.

Last year we was on the jewel and they do not have the SJ suite so we had the aft balcony suite. Over rated in my eyes. Yes, nice view, but cabin is small (only holds 3 people) we had a group is trip so we booked one grandchild in our cabin.

I was not crazy about the walking. If you go any further back, you are in the ocean. lol

The suite perks are to die for.

Good luck with whatever you do.

This will be our third thanksgiving cruise leaving next Sunday. All out of New Orleans.

We booked each one the week they appeared online. Want to say 2011 cruise showed up 23 months out. The other two more like 1 1/2 yr out. We had a suite on all three,so not a lot of wiggle room to wait. I will say each time I watched the prices constantly and nothing compared with what we paid.

Also each time we had a 450.00 OBC Also the suites would sell out fast.

I will say that just to be curious if the cabin choice is not an issue just before the cruise prices drop. Next year we are not taking grandkids as we have done in past so a suite is not a must. So even tho we are already booked we could wait and probably save big time (regular cabin)

My honest opinion is that if its your first time in NCL then I wouldn't recommend the UDP.

 

Lots of people enjoy the free options, and you only need to miss a couple of nights in the speciality restaurants before it becomes cheaper to pay per meal.

 

I'd recommend not getting the package, eating in a variety of places (speciality, MDR, o'Sheehans and buffet). It will probably end up costing less, or at worst only slightly more.

 

If you don't try the free options you will never tell whether you like them.

I agree here! We cruise 2-3 x per year , so do a lot of others. In that regard it is easier to get tired if MDR a meals, etc

I had seriously thought about ultimate dinning on upcoming cruise, but we are more than happy with 3 nights in favorite resturants.

I think the OP gets all this. The question is if carnival has to unload all the guest in say Mexico how do you get home without a passport. We all know this has happened on occassion!! We all know the people that did not have passports are not still sitting in Mexico . So how does it happen?

We had the pizza as an appetizer; it was very good.

I had the lobster fettuccini; it was good. I had the tiramisu for dessert; it was very good. JMO.

 

Enjoy it, was a nice dining experience.

Does the lobster pasta actually have lobster or just lobster sauce?

Thanks for the help. It has been 11 months since last ncl cruise. Didn't use the cabin phone then but november 2012 we did and it was 1.99 back then

That was a deal! With cell phone it is usually 1.99-2.49 but the tax's they add will gag you.

Is it still 1.99 per minute calling from the cabin?

Does anyone have a clue where the new menus can be found? Lunch and dinner.

We had lunch once with the chief engineer on a Princess ship who told us about an elderly couple on one cruise who flushed towels numerous times. He said they found out both were in the early stages of Alzheimer disease and didn't really know what they were doing.

Shame on their family letting them go on a cruise "unsupervised "

We have been on three different ncl ships and they all had pop corn at one of the bars or pubs. Just ask on board. It is so much better than microwave popcorn. It never dawned on me to have the butler get it. The kids enjoyed getting their own.

Dawn goes to Belize. We are sailng in three weeks. Want effect us, we want be getting off anyway.

Why even chance having a lousey vacation due to the ac problem reported. Cancel and go on a different cruise. There are plenty of other options. Life is too short.

 

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Yeah so true. With ncl we have had aft facing balcony, never shut the curtains and stayed cool. Had one of those forward family suites with the whole wall being glass, curtains open day and night, cool? Had mid ship balcony, cool.

If I want a cabin to be 65 degrees that is my business. Should not have to whine and cry and get nowhere when it is 82 degrees.

We have never had any problems with AC on any cruise we have been on. I love cruising and am tolerant of most things that people complain about. There is just one thing I need---> A cool room ;)

 

 

 

I am trying to get the 4-1-1 on this situation. I called my agent and they told me they had not heard of any issues but there are Carnival MX personnel on board that will rectify any problems. We will see. I will call Carnival directly and voice my opinion. Hopefully they will square away this small but significant issue by the time we get on :D

I have not read the whole thread but I will respond to yours. Your agent is dead wrong! We had an issue on a CCL cruise (not the dream) and complained for days. Kept coming to our cabin and "temp fell in their guidelines" was all we ever got. 82 degrees is not in my guidelines! We were miserable the whole week.this was in March 2000. Back then it was tux , fancy dress,hose and heels. We showered and was soaking wet to get dressed from sweat. Sleeping was at best like camping somewhere.

We have had 13 cruises with carnival sine 1998 and this was the only time it happened.mi will say once was enough . Complaining did NO GOOD.

We are booked in 2016 for the dream and hope this want bea replay

We have cruised on RCCL and NCL and no problems there.

We were not offered a fan by the way. So NO our issue was not taken care of.

We should not have to haul a fan on a cruise to half way stay cool.

Good luck

you can, but, the banana split is on the kids menu.:)

Also the good brownies and cookies and we add some ice cream !

Another option would be in Cagneys. We've had the steak and lobster in there a few times and it is way better than what we were served in MDR but of course it should as we paid the extra. I never made any special plans to make sure to go to MDR on lobster night as it was okay but nothing special. In Cagneys they serve it my favorite way as they bring the little pot of warm butter to dip it in. I've sometimes wondered if the lobster was just an excuse to have some butter. (the other Paula Deen):D

I am not seeing lobster on cagneys menu my ore (even for extra cost)

They sure dropped some of my favorites off their menu. We will look into this option also.

We had fantastic lobster in Teppanyaki on the Breakaway last week. Your grandson will also love the show the chefs do while cooking.

Now that's a thought. We did teppanyaki two years ago but all got the filet and shrimp. He loves scallops and calimari also so that will be our plan.

Thanks!

I realize it is an additional 10.00 but is the lobster larger than what they use to serve in MDR. I never cared about the lobster but our grandson want be a happy cruiser if he doesn't have it. Since it seems no lobster in cagneys or MDR I gues LaBistro is only option.

You must have a crystal ball to be able to look into the future to make such a claim!

You sure had a nicer response that what I wanted to say. lol

There is a BIG difference between the flu and Ebola!!

Very true!!! But I don't think everyone gets that!

As far as I can tell nurse #1 was admitted on Friday. The lab workers cruise departed on Sunday from a port 300 miles away.

 

I'm figuring that the lab worker left work on Friday not knowing the nurse was admitted (who knows whether they were actually that close?) and probably left for Galveston on Saturday. It's entirely possible that she wasn't aware that the nurse was sick.

 

I'm fairly certain that there are many patients in a large hospital that are contagious/dying or otherwise health risks to the health care workers. Are they all supposed to just go to work and stay home and not have a life?

 

Do you check on the health of all the people you come in contact with daily before you depart on a trip to see if they are all healthy so you don't spread

 

 

something?

 

I sincerely hope this person, as well all others embroiled in this, have no health issues, but I don't condemn her for continuing with her life.

She lives in a brainless bubble if she didn't see the news of nurse #1 somewhere before leaving.

I am certain she made plans some time back, but I bet you if she had called carnival she was an employee of the Dallas hospital where Duncan was a patient, etc etc they would of gladly given her a refund .look at what it will cost CCL now!

No, you don't stop life when you work around all the illness you come into contact with. But holy cow this is freaking ebola.

If people don't wake up and get the picture we will be in a mess over here.

"She" didn't ruin anyone's cruise on purpose.

 

She departed on the cruise before the first nurse even got sick. Before any kind of watch on the health care providers was started. And she didn't have direct contact with the patient, she worked in the lab.

 

After finding out that the nurse got sick, she self-quarantined and notified the authorities. What more could she do?

 

Are you saying that everyone working in that hospital should just cut themselves off from life because Ebola was in their hospital? People had plans before Mr. Duncan even arrived from Liberia.

I think if you will do a timeline of events, nurse #1 was already in the hospital with ebola before the lab emplyee left on her cruise.

I believe if the employees of that hospital could use better judgement and maybe tis mess want spread like a wildfire.

As a former lab employee myself I could write a book on the things I was exposed to and caught while on the job.