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Hey guys! Does anyone have any idea when the summer 2021 dates will open? We are FINALLY getting to cruise again and are excited to get a date booked 

Did away with lobster night? Really? Thought all cruises had that

 

 

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Sometime last year, lobster was removed from shorter cruises. A new elegant night menu was released for those cruises including a blue crab ravioli, prime rib, duck, grilled shrimp, sea bass, and spare ribs

They now have a scallop appetizer (I order two to make an entree) and a seafood ravioli in a vodka sauce. Ravioli was good but I've never liked vodka sauce.

I regretted not ordering 2. It was delicious

Already has the Seafood Shack? Awesome!! on the Carnival site it says "coming soon" - so wasn't sure it was already there, or would be there after drydock Sept 30 (I sail Sept 9)

It said the same thing for the Triumph, but she definitely already has the Seafood Shack and it's delicious!

I don't have the menus, but if you go to a certain very popular video sight, there was a video of the 5 day triumph menus by a poster named Phillip D. It pulled up on carnival American table menu. There were a few slight variations on our cruise but what was posted on there was pretty spot on

Sinus Cocktail shot. However it's apparently a local thing and your local doctor office may not know what it is. It works wonders on cold symptoms though. It's a couple of steroids and antihistamines all jammed together. It does wonders for a head cold.

 

 

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Thank you! I don't check up on posts often, so I hadn't seen how many people were upset by my advice. A sinus cocktail (rocephin and decadron) as well as an antibiotic (amoxicillin) is what I was given by a doctor for my head cold immediately before my cruise. Maybe I have a "horrible" doctor but it seemed to work.

thats so odd...on his FB page he announced he was in town for that sailing. we were not fans of Jess, there were issues with us getting into port once we arrived in NOLA and the updates were practically non existent. she never even announced when we cleared customs, we saw people getting off the ship and assumed we were cleared.

I will say disembarking was a mess on ours too. No problems, just lots of people going out of turn and seemed very unorganized. We were off within 10 minutes of our estimated time so I'm not really complaining, it just got a little frustrating. Hope yours goes better!

This happened to me! Well, we had insurance, but I got sick just before. Get your friend to the dr for a shot and antibiotics to speed up the recovery if possible

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this was the "authentic Mexican tamale"

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I'd pick the Magic. I think I'd prefer the Splendor for Aruba and Curaco, but the Magic ship. If you like the itenerary, I'd pick Magic without question.

Also, I do apologize for the pics. They are on the computer but unfortunately don't get wifi at home and I've gotten this sinus crud since returning. I do plan to post some tomorrow

Day 5 at sea

So this day was perfect, no motion felt at all and sun shining. We started out our day with the Dr Seuss breakfast. I booked this even though my step son wasn't with us but in hind sight I wouldn't do that again. Don't get me wrong, it was a neat experience BUT the characters rushed through and we weren't able to get photos except what the photographer took, the food that we actually ordered was the steak and eggs which are free on the brunch menu, and there were only 2 characters whereas the night before there were several photo props set up with many characters. I'd definitely recommend it with kids as they'd be excited but it really wasn't that great without. We kind of just relaxed today. This was the only day we saw deck chairs full, although we still had no problem finding one. I guess I also failed to mention that we only encountered chair hogs once, and that was when the Alabama/somebody game was on the big screen. I think we were in Progreso? I overheard a lady state that she had been saving "good seats" since she saw the deck filling up around noon. The game was at 7pm! No big deal to us as we don't really care for sports, but that's kinda crazy!

We went to the debarkation talk, wandered around a bit, then headed up to Lido for the ice carving. I grabbed a shrimp burrito that was fantastic. Then I realized that would be my last "lunch" burrito so I got another (I can't imagine why I gained 5 lbs). We had planned to make it to trivia but afternoon naps in those interior rooms will just get away from you! We had our final dinner with Jonathan and Anthony, then headed to the comedy club. We watched both family shows and both were great! We headed up to Lido to watch the Secret Life of Pets. I went to the Red Frog and ordered 2 non alcoholic pins coladas. We don't drink so this was what we always ordered. At the Blue Iguana, aft bar, and lobby bar this was no problem, but when I saw the bill I realized he charged us for the alcoholic version. I quickly stopped him before he wasted liquor and was pretty rudely told "You should have asked for SMOOTHIE". Whatever, it was fixed and we enjoyed our drinks. Then we retired for the night.

I'll go ahead and cover disembarkation here. We were given Zone 7. Since we had a low number we chose to do this instead of self debarkation. We had a leisurely breakfast (Arepas and a burrito of course!), then grabbed our carry on from the room and went to wait in the Rome Lounge. It was a madhouse! I'm thinking Carnival wasn't to blame, but several people were going out of turn (heard them say "let's just go ahead, everyone else is). I'm not sure if they were allowed to proceed out of turn or not, but them jumping in line obviously made it a longer wait for the rest of us.

We had a fantastic trip and are already planning the next! I loved the Triumph for our second time on her and would love to go on her again some day! I never could figure out why so many people stated they wouldn't cruise without certain upgrades but now I get it! I NEED the Blue Iguana. I sure wish I had a burrito right now

Duly noted! I guess it was a blessing in disguise that I had a nasty 3 week cold virus....I lost about 5 pounds with that virus....and I'm saving the bounce-back for the Blue Iguana!

 

Ugh! I'm very concerned about this motion for my hubby! Of course, I will be bringing Dramamine, it's his first cruise!

 

How was the weather in Cozumel? It looks like the whole hemisphere had a cool down while you were on your trip.....right now it looks to be rebounding so I hope it isn't as cold while we are there, esp in NOLA. And I desperately want to enjoy our balcony on the ship!

Start the Dramamine a day or two ahead of time and he should be fine. My hubby gets car sick in the front seat typically and although this one night he got a little queasy, he was okay.

We were very cold in New Orleans the day we left and a little cool the first sea day but the rest of the trip was great! Cozumel was in the 80's and beautiful!

Have a burrito or 2 for me!

I can't speak as to the Victory, but we just tried this on the Triumph. We loved the crab legs and peel and eat shrimp (favorite). Neither of us really cared for the fish and chips. It was okay, but really flavorless. The rest was well worth the price, (about $40 for all 3 dishes) but next time I'll forego the fish and just grab some fries from Guys

Day 4/Progreso

I failed to mentioned that I discovered the Blue Iguana on day 2 (don't eat here, the burritos and Arepas are fully responsible for my weight gain, they are fabulous!) This is where I had breakfast again, then we headed out for our Dzibilchaltun Ruins and Cenote Swim tour. I had forgotten how overly aggressive the people are here to sell things. On our excursion, however, our guide pointed out that while Cozumel sees at least one ship almost every day, and frequently multiples, Progreso only sees 2-3 ships a week. We considered staying on the ship here, but it makes sense that if we spend a little more here, this port can hopefully grow! I sure hope so. The tour was exactly what we expected. We essentially booked it to do SOMETHING here. It was a decent tour and the cenote was beautiful. I do wished I had worn my water shoes though because the area around the cenote, as well as the bottom of the cenote was very rocky. We took several pictures and then headed back to the restaurant on site. We ordered "chicken fajitas", "authentic tamales", and a chicken burrito. It was terrible. We had a good laugh at the tamales, which were a bone in chicken leg and thigh, with a slice of tomato and onion wrapped in some type of leaf. I LOVE tamales but I have no idea what this was. We were supposed to be gone from 9:30-1:30 but somehow got changed to 10:30 and weren't back until around 3. We decided to just get back onboard.

We ended up watching the end of Captain America:Civil War after dinner, then went to the Love and Marriage Show, which was hilarious! We really enjoyed Jess as our cruise director! We had planned to attend the late comedy show but hubby got a little nauseous so we headed to the lido for some fresh air and then headed on to bed. I've never felt this much motion on a ship, pretty much in all locations. It was quite interesting at times.