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5 days out of 12 with NFL football.......love it

11 minutes ago, Despegue said:

Yes, I was thinking the same. Asian queuing habits vary vastly between countries though. From Survival of the Fittest in India to the extreme politeness in Japan and anything in between 🙃

Even if this was true, Carnival knows the "American Buffet Model" (they have it on other ships).

How hard would it have been when they were renovated the ship to make it more manageable 

like their other ships?

This is an excellent point that I haven't seen before.  Cruise lines complain about food waste and

have gone as far as charging for additional entries and many complimentary Main Dining Rooms but

they "encourage" people to overload plates because no one wants to wait in long lines (especially if

they have to do it several times with multiple family members). I took 2 Carnival Cruises in October.  No issues in the Buffet, just visited the station of food I wanted.  Hopefully Carnival will get their act together by the time I sail on the Venezia this October.

1 hour ago, Despegue said:

The lining up idiocy is partly to blame for the stacking-up of loads of food, never consumed. If you have to waste 10 minutes every time you want to take something, you will just take all at once.

 

we go first for a starter or salad item, then we return to the buffet for a soup, then we take a small portion of a main course, then maybe a different item for seconds, but with clean plates so that we do not mix some items which are simply not good together, and then dessert. 
that is the proper way of a buffet! Most people just simply don’t understand that it is not a high school cafetaria unfortunately.

This is an excellent point that I haven't seen before.  Cruise lines complain about food waste and

have gone as far as charging for additional entries and many complimentary Main Dining Rooms but

they "encourage" people to overload plates because no one wants to wait in long lines (especially if

they have to do it several times with multiple family members). I took 2 Carnival Cruises in October.  No issues in the Buffet, just visited the station of food I wanted.  Hopefully Carnival will get their act together by the time I sail on the Venezia this October.

Hello,

  We sail on this ship in October.  I've heard numerous horror stories about the lines in the Buffet

and seen lots of videos to support this. I guess the Buffet area/lines was designed very poorly?

Has anyone who has sailed recently noticed an improvement in this situation?

Thanks

We (Nancy and John) are doing a 12-day cruise on the Carnival Venezia in October. Now that several sailing have happened

I have questions on these sailings:

1) What Complimentary restaurants/food are currently onboard?

2) Are the Buffet lines as bad as everyone says or have they improved?

3) What shows, activities and attractions are on board?

4) Are menus and/or the Fun Times printed anywhere online?

5) Are there any meetups or Group activities planned ?

Thanks

Does anyone know of any meetups onboard?

Where is everyone staying the night before?

Looks like you can walk to the beach in St Thomas, St Maarten and Barbados so that will

take care of 3 islands.  It's a longer walk (we have done it twice) to the beach in St. Lucia but

it is doable (little over a mile) so that only leaves Dominica that we will have to do an excursion.

What excursions are people taking?

Looking for places to stay in NY for a 2023 Carnival Cruise.

We have sailed out of NY many times and have always booked a 

Park, Sleep and Shuttle Cruise package at a local hotel.  Does

anyone have any current deals and/or places that do this?  This

would be for an 12-day October Cruise out of NY on Carnival.

Thanks,

  John

We are also on the 12-day in October so I will be following this thread closely.

We are also on the 12-day in October so I will be following this thread closely.

Are there any specials on beer?  Beer buckets?  How much?

Looking for a Beach or Snorkeling in Grand Cayman that is within walking distance

of the Carnival Cruise Port?

Looking for a Beach or Snorkeling in Cozumel that is within walking distance

of the Carnival Cruise Port?

Looking for a Beach or Snorkeling in Ocho Rio that is within walking distance

of the Carnival Cruise Port?

Looking for a Beach or Snorkeling in Amber Cove that is within walking distance

of the Carnival Cruise Port?

Looking for a Beach or Snorkeling in Aruba that is within walking distance

of the Carnival Cruise Port?

Looking for a Beach or Snorkeling in La Romana that is within walking distance of

the Carnival Cruise Port?

Looking for a Beach or Snorkeling in Bonaire that is within walking distance of

the Carnival Cruise Port?

We are taking a B2B on the Horizon in October 2022.  The 1st cruise is an 8-day and the

2nd is a 6-day.  We would like to print out the menus.  Does anyone have menus and/or

links to menus for the Horizon?

Thanks

3 minutes ago, mcatmcat said:

Hi 

did they do the Quest game at night?

 

No quest game, no deck parties, no laser tag...

6 minutes ago, D4 said:

Thanks for the information.  Yes, it’s crazy that they delete everything except how to charge you!

 

We haven’t cruised since COVID, but we have a B2B coming up on Oasis.

 

I’ll be worried the whole first cruise about catching COVID and not being allowed on the second cruise.  The second cruise s a group cruise and is the whole reason for our trip.

We get all our negative test.  Then on the 3rd day of the first week of our B2B we stop in Florida.  You can come and go as you want, no test to get back on the ship.  I was worried all week that someone would bring the virus onboard from Florida. What Group Cruise are you going on?  We are hoping to do a Group Cruise next Fall.

This was the worst part of the B2B.  We had to meet in the theater at 8:30am.  They took all the same information that they took at the beginning of the cruise. I asked why and they said they delete everything?  The funny part was that they magically retained all my charge card information.  After an hour we went to the port, got a facial scan and could have gotten right back on the ship but we waited for quite a while.  The rumor was that the Coast Guard/CDC/??? was giving the ship the "once over.  We finally got back on the ship.  We didn't have to show anything, the scan did all the work.