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38 minutes ago, geckoaz said:

Ok i have diabetes. If cruise directors can cruise with diabetes, will i be able to cruise. Whether i can cruise is an Issue hanging over my oct 2020 and may 2021 cruises. I really wish this would get resolved.  I know the stats about deaths but older diabetics have other health issues. I have been lucky so far to just have diabetes. I am platinum on carnival and no issues.  I think cruising should be my choice. Are there other diabetics in the same situation?

I have T2 diabetes myself.   We have a cruise for August 15th....we are going.   I am healthy and not concerned.     

29 minutes ago, lindya said:

I just rescheduled our cancelled April/2020 cruise to April/2021....I picked out what trip to book next year, made one call to Carnival to rebook...the agent handled the cancellation and rebooking during that call...Today, less than 24 hours later, I have an email from Carnival which shows the new booking including the FCC being applied as well as the OBC waiting for our room….I was told to be patient by the rep yesterday for the email so was totally surprised how quickly this was handled...Just wanted to post a great experience with Carnival in getting this taken care of so fast!!!

Yep...my PVP took care of everything for my rebooking to August 15th.  Credits transferred over quickly and am waiting for the difference to be sent to me in gift cards (as that is how i originally paid for the cruise).

No complaints at all....

3 hours ago, jimbo5544 said:

But wait....we read posts here by some they were scrapping all the ships starting with the ones in the ship yards😎

RIGHT????  LOL    Ghost ships will be everywhere 

1 hour ago, coevan said:

 

 

we are not making doses for the entire world, ridiculous number. There are 320 million Americans, only 43% get the flu shot. I don't see any reason that would change. There are vaccine believers and there are not. Good luck with your August cruise. the real question is would you cruise if you HAD to wear a mask or social distance, which is not really possible. I don't think, I know for sure we will not walk on a floating petri dish until the virus is eradicated. 

We dont know when if ever a vaccine wpuld be made.   We dont know which country will discover it if found...and there is certainly not going to be a way we would make it only for the US..the world will make a pact to share.  This virus wont be eradicated for years...even if there is ever a vaccine...only about 40 percent would even get it.  So how would that make it go away?

I have a spa balcony cabin...i enjoy sitting there listening to the water...i will be on there in a heartbeat.   I dont stay home now..i wont be afraid to be on a ship.    As seen by the demand of future cruises, i think many others also cant wait

i just contacted my PVP as I am waiting for the overage of my re booked cruise to come back in the gift cards i used.     He said they have 1 ,million people they are working on...so it will take a bit.   My has not been worked on yet...my cruise was april 4th.

1 hour ago, coevan said:

 

 

This will never happen. However, we will not cruise until the virus is gone and they develop a vaccine

You dont think we wont cruise until a vaccine?   The development for that is 18 months to 2 years then ramp up to make 7 billion doses for the world and actually vaccinate them all...i dont see it.   That would take well over 2 to 3 years   

We are booked for august and again next march.    Crossing my fingers for august 🙂

My next cruise is august 15th....if that gets cancelled...I will find a beach resort in the Carolinas or florida.    Or a casino trip :)

47 minutes ago, James4me said:

I don’t get it.  Why are people planning on cruises a month or 2 or even for that matter December cruises?  I hope if you are planning a cruise, let’s say July, that the ports you are going to will even be open.  You need to research the ports you are going to, to know when things are going back to what we once called “normal”.  I don’t think they, the ports, will be and you’ll be stuck on the ship with a $25.00 cruise credit for missing the port stop.  I was just looking at rebooking my May Panorama cruise for 2022, however I’m hearing that this Coronavirus will rear its ugly head again this Winter, thus, rendering all transportation and borders shut down once again.  I hope for those who have booked cruises this year come back and keep us posted.  I know all of us here want to get back to our favorite way of vacationing which is cruising, I surely do.  I’m starting to get depressed about this whole thing as you can possibly tell in how I’m responding.  I’m all over the place with this and how it’s going to affect our future cruises.  I hope you all who are making your plans for this year will be able to sail.  Once again, please keep us who are undecided to book posted.  This is really the only place to get true information rather than fake news sites.  Ok, I’m done.  I need my drink of the day 😚.  

I rebooked my April cruise to August 15th....I am totally ready to go.   If we cant hit a single port, I am fine with that.    I have a spa balcony room and will be completely fine sitting on my balcony listening to the water.    Better than sitting in my house one more day.

I am confident in Carnivals standing and ability to withstand this standstill.

I will be back..already scheduled for August 15th 2020 and march 27  2021...i am platinum and have always enjoyed what Carnival offers.   I expect some cutbacks, and possible added costs in the future.   

I think they deserve a bailout...they were asked by the president to shut down...they didnt have to (along with all other cruiselines).   Cruises are a huge essential part to many states and islands economies (airlines, restaurants, tour operators, hotels etc)   

I think the bailout should be a loan that has to be paid back and the solid cruise lines will be able to do that.  The bailouts from the 2008 period were paid back and there is no reason to expect that these would be any different.

28 minutes ago, Radiioman46 said:

How do I get a PVP? I've never knew anything like that existed. 

I got mine by just booking my first cruise back in 2009.   Not sure how, but i had called carnival back then and just lucked into this guy.     There are lots of recommendations of great ones on the book of faces if you ask some cruise page groups for carnival.   We can mention names on here, but if you email me at bingomamma19 at the yahoo of emails..i can inform you 🙂

I messaged my PVP the day after the cancellation announcements (our cruise was April 4th on the Breeze).   He took care of everything...rebooked us on the August 15th Breeze,)  he put in for the transfer of all the funds to the new cruise and got the confirmation of all done yesterday.   OBC is showing for $600 also.

For all those who have played down using a PVP over the years...i never had to wait even 1 second on the phone...simply messaged my PVP via facebook and he took care of everything immediately.    I have been using him for 10 years now and has always been incredible.     Most of the stories i have been reading about with people spending hours on the phone with carnival, getting wrong info, getting confilicting info.....my suggestion...get a good PVP.  You wont regret it.

absolutely i would go.    We are on the Breeze on April 4th and cant wait.  

If you read all the precautions the Carnival is taking, you will see they are taking this very seriously.   I guarantee you that your local grocerie store, gas station, restaurant etc is nowhere near as precautionary as carnival is.

We have a balcony cabin and i dont worry about a quarantine...there is very little chance it will happen, but i am prepared if it does.

13 minutes ago, khewston said:

Anyone seeing any prices drops on cruises?  I've been checking everyday and not seeing anything dropping.  I've seen a few rates go up!

Ours is on the Breeze on April 4th...in a few weeks.    No price drops...the price is actually higher than we paid a year ago.

This announcement does not scare us one bit.   We are going on the Breeze on April 4th...me (52), dd 14 and mom 79.    I did tell my mom about this announcement yesterday and she said "no way am i cancelling.  If i am going to die, i want to do it while i am doing something i love ".....so we are going  LOL

Seriously though...mom has no u/l conditions at all and is very healthy.   If she was sickly or had anything, i would not let her go (but my DD and i would still be going).

I hope the fear dies down and this all gets dealt with in a calm manner going forward.   These crazy roller coaster rides of news everyday is driving people nuts.

10 hours ago, Joe817 said:

That's not quite true. My wife & I were on the Dream back in July. She would put her drinks on her S&S card, and me on mine. Separate purchases. And when we got our settlement sheet the last night before we debarked, ALL of our separate purchases were under that one settlement sheet. Mine.

Your HUB app and expenses while on board are completely separate accounts.   So as you are cruising, when you check your card, only your charges show up.   My DD is 14 and is always under my credit card, she has her own charges under her own name, they do not show up under mine.

The sheet that you get at the end may show them on one piece of paper because its under one credit card....but during the cruise...its based on your sign and sail number and card and you can check them per individual.

3 minutes ago, firefly333 said:

I keep reading they will take everyone's temperature but then read didnt happen. So far seems like no.

John Heald had a FB live yesterday showing them using the forehead scanner thermometers as passengers boarded..super quick..like 2 seconds as they pass by

24 minutes ago, 1kaper said:

 

I expect we are going to see the same thing with all inclusive shortly. 

As I mentioned to you before about a public health officer, communal living is a bigger risk than just being out in regular public.  

 

And so will flying on airplanes, riding on busses, riding on subways etc.  

You cant shut down the planet, so its something we will just have to learn to deal with and take personal precautions as necessary.   This will pass and in a year people will barely remember what all the hype was about.

2 minutes ago, SRQbeachgirl said:

IMO, this whole idea of quarantining is going to become a mute point very soon. So many people will have been exposed by people who have no or very mild symptoms that there will be no way to isolate it. We may already be at that point as it is. 

Thats what i think also.   It will get too big to quarantine and then we will deal with it like the flu or a bad cold.   Those who are most vulnerable will have to take extra caution, but most of the people will be just fine.

So listening to all the panic about cruises and the corona virus got me to thinking about hotels or all inclusives for vacations.

What is the difference in the risk?  You are all there in the same place for several days, using the same facilities.    Except people are coming and going constantly, which would make it seem impossible to actually control an outbreak if some who has the virus has been there.   Seems like it would actually be a more inviting situation for an outbreak.    And if you were quarantined there, you would also just be stuck in your room.

On 3/6/2020 at 2:33 AM, zombiehunter said:

Thanks for all the replies. Yes my vast knowledge of waiting tables let me know that sometimes people join their party late... You deal with it. It also let's me know that my job isn't over once I take an order.

 

I did walk over to the bars, I did try the wandering alcohol minstrels, it was consistently 10-15 minutes for a drink with maybe three under five. So yes...I probably spent 6-8 hours waiting for drinks over the course of the vacation. Except the first day when I was paying for each.

 

As far as sharing my drink package... Lighten up, Francis. The 15 drink rule is partly to keep people from getting totally sloshed and partly because of the abusers. I guess I could have just dumped them out or made a stick about not liking them... But it's vacation and three shared drinks does not an abuser make.

 

I definitely looked at the app to check my drinks and it didn't show mine vs my gf so I just added to what was there. It was a mess with no real way to prove or disprove anything.

 

We did have a good time though. I just see things that could be handled better. And they're not huge expensive things, just small common sense fixes. Like let me use my drink package for a bucket of beer, if I share them then that's on me and my 15 but it would save three trips to the bar.

 

I'm not sure who we'll sail next. I kind of want to do RCL for the laser tag haha

 

And I was on Dream, 2.27-3.2 from Galveston

Your sign and sail accounts are completely separate.  Each person has their own account, so there would be no combination of both your drinks under one account.       

1 minute ago, 1kaper said:

 

I was on a conference calls with the chief public health officer.  He referred to over 50 as higher risk.  I don't think it is considered elderly but that is what he identified as the higher risk age group. 

LOL  i am 52 and i am nowhere near elderly.    We will be cruising april 4th.   Its me 52  my DD 14 and my mom  79.   My mom is completely healthy and so she is going.    I couldnt make her not go if i wanted to  LOL

7 hours ago, seafoy said:

I’m assuming this OBC is for new bookings made between those dates as well?

The OBC is for cruises until May 31st that were already booked as of March 6th.   Any new bookings made after that do not get the OBC.

The OBC is meant to persuade people to keep their cruise and not cancel.  

3 hours ago, AmBear said:

There are people, young and previously healthy dying, like the doctor in China who originally reported about this virus!

Ummmm....that Chinese dr suspiciously died ....funny how the government tried to keep him quiet, and then he ended up dead....

19 hours ago, joeyancho said:

21 now infected on the Grand Princess.  I think a lot more people will be canceling.  Especially if that ship is quarantined. 

We arent cancelling...we are on the Breeze april 4th .    We will be partying and enjoying our 200 obc!!

3 hours ago, tonit964 said:

I think most people are more worried about being quarantined than the virus and that's why they are choosing to cancel.

They have never had anyone quarantined for the flu or Noro before.

We are not worried about quarantine.   They wont be quaurantining all these ships in the carribean.  If so, it will cancel out the next few cruises anyway.

Most of my roll call is still going and not worried.    A few who have elderly relatives who were going have cancelled, and that is understandable.