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Remember that they do have to check on you if they have not been in the room for more than 24 hours. Even with the snoozin sign out, they or security will open the door and check on you just to make sure you are alive and don't have a disease that could put the rest of the ship in danger.

We experienced this in 2012 when our travel partner stayed in their room for 2 days. The steward asked us and we said we had not seen them and then he said he was going to have to let security know.

Dear daughter

darling wife...

da** husband

mix and match at will.

And I even ordered beers on room service and they didn't count against my cheers package.

That is an interesting loophole. I wonder if this works after 15?

Some TA'S in Canada don't go directly to the cruise line but a company the represents the company. They require a couple of extra days to process the payment.

Good point, I didn't think of international TA's.

It is pretty easy to process a payment direct with Carnival as a TA.

TA'S can and should process the card directly with carnival.

If found it will be collected and sent to Miami, they will not give it to you from the ship even if you contact them prior to it sailing again.

Your best bet is to contact Carnival's customer service team in Miami and let them know what it is, who you are, and where you thought it might be and they will try and reunite you with it if they find it.

This is also a good time to remind people to do a once-over on your room before closing the door the last morning and make sure there is nothing left that is not meant to be left. My wife and I take a few minutes each, separately to look over everywhere we have stored things to make sure there are not any items there anymore.

Check out the New Orleans port of call forum, many places have parking and fit your requirements. Many threads over there to answer just this question: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21

Take a look at the New Orleans port of call forum on the main forum list. There are many hotels which offer free parking, and pretty much all of them are listed in that forum.

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21

I was thinking since they seem to be on a run of 2-4 ships per class now then Empress, Sky, Serenity, and a few other names of decks or areas onboard come to mind.

It does open up potential marketing angles "sail the Carnival Casino!"

We will probably do it on the Breeze in May. We did do it on the Conquest in 2012, and we normally wouldn't do it again but I am a huge nerd and want to see the differences between the different areas on the ship.

It is worth the cost if you have any interest in the logistics of how to power a ship, feed 6000 people 3 or 4 or 5 times a day, how things like training are handled, and how they navigate among other things.

The best part was going out on the bow of the ship and getting a photo (since that's a crew only area), and the bridge. The view from the bridge is unbeatable.

Us too!

ALRIGHT!

Babycat is sailing again!

I am warming up the Roku already!

I'll watch for you on the PortNola webcam friday!

Carnival Panorama? Is the new theme deck names?

Look at your documents, it should show up there. If it doesn't you'll need to call Carnival and have them cancel one and add it back under the other. Have your card handy for that.

If you look on youtube for port nola webcam timelapse, I made those. I watch that webcam all the time!

The stateroom descriptions on the goccl site have it. I can't post a link but I bet you'll find it if you search for "

state room description breeze deck #"

We were on the first cruise to Alaska last year, the first day the elevators were a bit busy, but we found that if we went to the aft elevators it helped pretty significantly.

After the first day there was little trouble getting an elevator.

Oh nice!

I thought it wasn't supposed to sail until Friday!

Triumph is coming back now?

The Triumph will make her (re)inaugural call to the Port of New Orleans on Friday April 8th.

You are welcome!

I do not have a professional attachment to that river, but I do have a personal attachment. I first saw the Mississippi river when I was probably 8 on a vacation, eventually wound up living in New Orleans where I would sit on the levees for hours and watch the ships go by. The levee I watched from was right by the anchorage below Algier's point (I think they call it 9 mile), and I wanted to see how much I could pick out from the first cruise we ever went on so I made a list. Later I refined that list to include times from sailaway just so I would know when to be outside looking for the landmarks.

Be sure to share that with anyone who cruises from New Orleans, and of the things to absolutely look for, be outside for the Forts, Venice and "the jump", Cubitt's gap and the Head of Passes along with the old lighthouses on southwest pass.

Some amazing engineering and skill were used to manipulate the river in these areas and most of that history dates back to 1874 when James Eads used the flow of the river to maintain a navigable channel in South Pass.

There is quite a bit missing from that timeline that I posted because of stuff I have discovered along the way, but that will be for future posts.

And with that: Hijack over.

If I am not mistaken today was the last time she ported in New Orleans, she's on a Journeys cruise to aruba and a few other ports, then San Juan for another Journeys cruise then moving to her new home in Jacksonville.

She probably left late due to customs and taking on additional provisions for the 10 or 11 day cruise ahead.

Elation has been doing only 4 and 5 day sailings for the most part since she arrived in New Orleans back in 2011 or 2012.

We booked back in August for the breeze this May. No FTTF until yesterday, then about 20 of them opened and were grabbed by our roll call/other site group. We're 50 days from sailing.

The Elation had the Chef's table on both of our past cruises, one 4 night, one 5 night.

You should be good to go on that!

$75 per person, and very worth it!

I was asking my wife last night if she would like to do this for our upcoming Breeze sailing, and she said sure. Good timing for this thread because it reminded to to request it!

I don't think it is a state/city tax thing because in New Orleans even after buying cheers they charge you tax while in the port/river. It is not until you are past pilottown or southwest pass that they stop charging the sales tax on drinks under cheers.

My guess is Carnival just does not have a mechanism in the point of sale system for going back to previously purchased drinks and crediting the account for those under cheers like RCCL apparently has, so they just make the program only cover from day 2 and on.

We did this last year, and it was several weeks between the time we emailed and the time they replied. That delay was due to them holding off on opening that excursion because they were adding a second excursion boat.

It is a fantastic excursion. I don't know if we'd do it a second time but it was worth every penny. Both Sawyer north and south glaciers calved while we were near them, a sound you'll never forget!