ZoeyVictoria

I tried to purchase some gift cards this morning and received an error message regarding “technical difficulties”. I hope they are resolved soon.

Even the people who don’t spend time in the solarium can be affected when the places they do enjoy are swamped with the people who were displaced from the solarium.

There is a limit of 25 premium cards per calendar month. I used $84 of a $100 gift card to pay for the steakhouse online. I got on the ship with two $100 gift cards and the one with the $16 balance. I was able to easily use a kiosk to apply the two $100 cards, but it would not accept the $16 card, so I took it to Guest Services. They applied it in seconds.

Eight one-hundred dollar bills = 80,000 pennies.

I was on the Liberty September 26-30 and brought home 80,000 pennies from a seventy-five cent slot machine. Almost all of the slot machines were penny slots.

I think the Oasis might be a little overwhelming for a first time cruiser.

I originally could see my cruises on both the website and the app, but the set sail passes were missing. Now, an hour later, cruises are completely missing. But I am able to book new cruises, no problem with that!

Thank you, I was worried because I deliberately left it there, then later wondered if the limit was over $50 instead of the $10 I thought it was and I had made a $43 mistake. I left it there because I had already cashed out $800 from a favorite slot machine, but was unable to play it again. There were three machines together, and a large group of people had pulled up two more chairs (moved from other machines) and camped out there for hours, taking turns among their group. Sometimes no one was playing one of them, but they indignantly said, “She is in the bathroom!” I wanted to leave on a happy note because of the $800 and seeing that happening so close to the cashier’s cage would have irritated me all over again.

I left the Liberty on October 1 with $43 left on my casino account. Will I automatically receive a check for this amount?

In years past, I tried several off-site lots. I got tired of finding out that the lot was under an overpass or seeing homeless people sleeping up against the chain link fence of the lot. There are many horror stories out there. I used Premier Parking (in a parking garage) more than once, but their vans were in bad shape and I gave up after the time the horn was broken and the driver had to open his window and shake his fist at slower vehicles instead. Changes were made, and we tried Premier again after the restart. There were many polite employees in uniform shirts and vans in very good shape. It was an impressive change. That may have been temporary, though, as their service is no longer that polished and we stood in a line in the parking garage waiting for a van. You park your own car in the garage and keep your keys. We are giving them another try in November, but I would not take a chance on another company.

We miss Alexa desperately.

Are any adults Diamond or Diamond Plus, and are any of the rooms balconies? Splitting up the D/D+ could result in more than one balcony discount. Are all of the adults from the same state? If not, check prices for resident discounts. Splitting up the people from a state with a resident discount could result in more than one cabin with a lower price. There might be some hints with the “kids sail free” promo that I am not familiar with, regarding the number of kids in a cabin. I’m sure someone else will help with that. Once you get on board, you can move people into the cabins with their partners and get the keys changed at Guest Services. Or, you could decide it is complicated enough with that number of people in the first place, and book them exactly the way you have them listed. That would probably be my choice.

We are sailing on the Mariner this weekend, October 16. I received the Royal Up email on August 17, September 21, October 11, and again today, two days before sailing. We love our cabin and are not interested in upgrading. Apparently they think someone else would also love it!

The articles I found showed photos of guns, a sword, a suit of armor, a gun safe, and a box with a metallic clasp that contained jewelry. Also many, many bicycles and scooters. Edited to add: I would love to try it if we were younger and had a pickup truck to haul away the junk and a garage to clean up any good stuff. Just not a suitable hobby for retirees living in a condo.

I had to google that and found it to be really interesting. The problems I see would be disposing of any junk he found, and I don’t believe the governments of those countries would think highly of anything of value being removed from the country.

We will be docked on the Mariner next week for 48 hours. Will the casino be open at all during that time?

My Carnival PVP has stated that he and his wife and children have been able to cruise free on standby, and only once has the ship been full and they had to go home and unpack.

I know a lot about Carnival and Royal Caribbean ships because of the time I spend on CC forums, but I have booked cruises on Princess and Celebrity without knowing a thing about the ships. Bookings were based on what fantastic deals they were. I looked at deck plans when selecting cabins, but the rest was unknown. All three turned out well.

I woke up early on September 24 and saw that the projected path of Hurricane Ian was projected to be a direct hit where I live on the west coast of Florida. I researched and eliminated flying to see family members in New York and Virginia, as well as driving up north. Then I found a cruise on the Liberty, leaving the 26th and returning the 30th. Perfect! After a couple hours of discussion, we booked one of the last five available cabins. We headed for the port 46 hours later. Evacuation by sea turned out to be a great idea. We checked projections frequently, but the cruise was enough of a distraction to keep our stress levels down. Ian made landfall south of our area, and there was just minor damage and a 22-hour power outage at our condo. We stayed at sea an extra day and returned home late on September 30. Last-minute booking with a happy ending.

A few weeks ago on the Freedom, I had a Reuben made with limp, lukewarm pieces of cooked cabbage instead of sauerkraut. It will be a long time before I order another Reuben - anywhere 🤮

We just boarded the Liberty (evacuating from Ian) and were confronted by a very angry, very rude steward when we tried to drop off our luggage in the closet prior to 1:30. Is that no longer allowed?

Has anyone taken this relatively new Carnival excursion? I was hesitant to take a tour with no reviews, but now there are two good reviews on the Carnival website and I had a 15% excursion code plus a 10% discount for using my Carnival Master Card. Brought the total down to less than taking a taxi on my own.