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Honestly, I've never quite figured out how checking a bag with Carnival works! So I always just carry my luggage on with me. I wish we could leave it in the stateroom while being cleaned but it isn't too bad. I do roll my clothes so I can fit more. But I easily can pack for up to 2 weeks in an airline sized carry on. Most of the people I travel with end up taking 2 airline sized checked bags and don't even wear 3/4th of what they bring. But you can take the big checked bags you usually use for airline and carry it on Carnival yourself.

Same. Aruba is an unusual destination, but there is a ship that does southern Carribean that does Aruba (Horizon). I wonder if they just went to the Aruba port early or went back to port. I feel like someone here would've reported an itinerary change. Wonder if it wasn't diverted, but, they picked up a kid on their way back to the states from ARuba. Edit: But then again, Carnival is a BIG cruise company, it could've been one of the other lines they own.

Wow! That is beyond amazing! I wonder how far the diverting of the cruise ship took them, and how late they were to a port. If I were a passenger on that ship I would be 100% understanding if they told us why.

For sure, I'm going to bring a list of hospitals to the transplant center and let them know my plans. Likely will be okay. There's a few areas of the world I do have to avoid, most of them are in the Carribean and Pacific Islands.

Who do you use for the outside coverage? I'm interested in that. I'm always afraid I might end up in rejection of my organ in the middle of nowhere and may need to get to a major hospital ASAP

it is exciting! Our concern is mostly paying off the trip first, and to enjoy life. I am supposed to graduate with my doctorate in August, so it can be a great celebration trip! Since the Rome to Rome portion has amazing ports, we're not too concern about paying for excursions because these are such greatly established cities/ports we can even do things on our own safely. Definitely will do a Carnival excursion or two but don't know what yet! We're both students right now (I'm the one also working FT). So I can have it paid fof before the end of this year to have extra time to plan for excursions 😄

Thank you! That's the EXACT trip that we want to do! 10 days Rome to Rome with the Greek Isles visit, then 15 nights to Tampa! We got a rate we're comfortable with for balcony, and our PVP said we can book now because the early saver has price protection.

My partner and I found a cruise from Europe to North America next year that we're highly considering. We like the price range, and, we can easily pay for it before the deadline of next year to pay for it. When looking around, we saw people post about B2B and we found that right before our trip to North America, there's one that goes around the Greek Islands and several others. This will give us 2 cruises, one of 10 days and one of 15 days back to back. Plenty of cabins are available, and, we can have the same balcony cabin both ways! Neither of us have been in Europe and we feel this is a great way for us to explore. Especially, since a lot of these stops are extremely established cities. We're making a goal to enjoy life, even though we're only 29 and 32 years old. I had a heart transplant and I decided I want to see the world. I spent my entire life in a hospital, so I'm ready to explore and see more. For this type of trip, we're thinking of adding the vacation protection because it is so far out -- and my medical issues (heart transplant). Has anyone had experience with Carnival's Vacation Protection? Should we be using Carnival's or should we be using a third party company for it? To cover the cruise, it will be $258 per cruise for us both totaling $516.

Anyone under 16 must have an adult with them to leave the ship at a port. Minor children 16 years of age and older may debark the ship in port without a parent or guardian. If the parent or guardian wishes to raise this age limit, they must contact the onboard Security department. Minor children under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult (18 years or older) within the same travel group in order to debark the ship in port. https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1061/~/age-restrictions-on-board

That is a pretty big upsell/upgrade! Congratulations! If they offered me a suite for $350 more I would hop on it!

For us, it errored out on cabin 2.

I'm going on this ship for 10 days Sept 5 to 15th, right before the drydock. Hopefully we're smooth sailing before she gets some upgrades!

Hello all! I'm usually very quiet, but, I've been on CruiseCritic for many years. I usually don't have much to say because I enjoy cruise ships. But I just boarded the Panorama yesterday and my experience was anything but pleasant. I've been to Mexico and Alaska before on the cruises. Always enjoyed it. Never once had a bad experience... Until now. I've had issue after issue and am honestly pretty unhappy and already a day into this. - Checkin process/embarkation was chaotic. They disembarked late, which is okay. But there was no staff telling passengers anything. The luggage drop-off was almost non-existent and things were getting mixed up of things going on / off the ship. - There was no organization of embarkation. - There were limited check-in staff and security tables that made the process last until almost 4pm. Now we got to our cabin: - We waited until the time we were told we can go. - The bathroom was unclean. We had roaches as well. Never seen that before! - Our stateroom had broken furniture. - The laundry bag, and other standard forms were missing. Our steward had to give them to us so we can get a shirt pressed for elegant night. Got our sail and sign cards! - We found we were already charged almost $50 at a bar we haven't been to! Okay, maybe just a bad start yep? Went on the spa tour. We were promised a $249 deal for a couple. We were told we can get complimentary scrubs each day. Went today: - They want $9 per person now. - $108 more in fees basically if we continue to use the facilities. We went to Vista for breakfast. We used the app to check in. - Chaotic. One hostess. - There were massive lines of people down to the staircases just waiting. Everyone's table stated ready. They obviously weren't. The notifications were wrong. Nobody was ready and the movement was so slow because people who didn't checked in yet, were standing there and getting priority over people who did check in which caused a bigger mess. - no regular orange juice. We were told they only have the specialty orange juices. - Took about 35 minutes before we even saw our server. Guest services - Waited in a line for 2 hours to fight the bar contests yesterday (Before the spa issue). - Guest services only had 2 people the entire time we’ve been here that we've noticed. The one girl looks like she’s about to faint. I saw her at 10 pm last night and again at 8am when walking by. Again at noon just now. Kiosks - The card readers are broken on the sail and sign places in the third floor. Food - We wanted to go eat about 10pm. They already closed all the restaurants. - We went to the pizza place. - The only food is the pizza. Their pizza quality declined. We were given black burnt pizza. They ran out of basil as well. - Had to wait in a 25 minute long line, to only be told my preferred pizza isn't available, and told to wait and stand aside. Once it was available, they gave it to the next person in line... Three times! So it took me almost 45 minutes to get a pizza. This ordeal cost me almost an hour and a half Our only enjoyable experience so far was the Italian restaurant dinner and the cabin bed is relaxing. I'm already regretting this and we're only 1 day in. I skipped my college graduation to spend the travel money on a cruise instead.