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If you can get discount carnival gift cards that's another 10% .use that to prepurchase the drink package.

1 hour ago, texreno said:

Can anyone help with my original question above?

That's the best they are going to do is the pre cruise discount .carnival isn't it giving things away.drinks and gambling are big money makers.

6 hours ago, Joe817 said:

Many of you all know, our cruising experience if very limited. But that said, we sailed on the Dream out of Galveston last July, with MTD at 6pm. We loved it!  We were seated at a 4 top. The first night in the MDR we met a couple, engaged, from Austin & Waco. We immediately became 'new best friends' while on the cruise. we still stay in touch. We were also seated with a couple out of Houston. As luck would have it, he went to the same school that Cindy & I did....TCU. A lovely & engaging couple, much older than we were. They were 'white cards'. I know they had seniority over us, and they graciously and subtly let us know. 

     I like sharing a table as it gives us an opportunity to meet new people. On debarkation day, we had an early early breakfast in the MDR. We were seated with a Canadian couple. I love the Canadians. Very easy going...at least the one's we've been around. We could have made them our 'new best friends', but alas it was debarkation day.  I will be sad to see it go. 

We did it on our first cruise.but being an interracial couple wasn't well received by our table mates.i guess they felt uncomfortable.a white man with a black woman wasn't too common back then still isn't now.my wife is retired army,I was a short timer .in military circles it's accepted.anyway after that cruise we just do lido much more relaxed and more our cup of tea.if someone wants to conversate we have no issues.we found people on celebrity to be friendlier to us anyway.otherwise I just enjoy basking in my wife's sunshine.

2 hours ago, Joe817 said:

You have never been in the Armed Services, have you?

If they complain about carnivals coffee they certainly haven't.

2 hours ago, skridge said:

I don't think Carnival will be able to call themselves a family cruise line if they make it so families could not sail together.

Don't worry carnival wears many hats.they cater to whoever pays the fares.

On 7/5/2020 at 5:37 PM, zqvol said:

I don't think anything is resuming before the end fo the year, but if it does you might see Norfolk and Charleston being used a lot more.

I don't think the Charleston residents will go for that.

18 hours ago, Milwaukee Eight said:

What’s wrong with kids?  I’ve seen adults behave badly. 😇

That's very true but you have to love your kids the rest of us don't.

11 hours ago, RealNorwegianCruiser said:

 

If MSC cut back more on food, I am afraid that they will lose alot of the new clients they got from other cruise lines through their loyalty matching... MSC is a decent product for the price, but they will soon go from average to poor if they reduce the food quality or choices.. 

It didn't seem to affect carnival Cruise any.i don't see any Cruise lines food getting worse than that but then again .I had breakfast at shoneys the other week and I thought they couldn't get any worse.they did though.

"A"is the no brainer to me because I'm cheap.

6 hours ago, shipgeeks said:

Does anyone besides Americans play cornhole?

Not many Americans play corn hole.but lawn darts now that's what I'm talking about.

3 hours ago, Organized Chaos said:

 

The law of supply and demand. Bookings went way up for the month of August when people thought that's when they were returning, and for the rest of the year. They were even up for 2021, too. Arnold Donald talked about it in some of his interviews. He had also said not to expect any big deals or sales because demand was so high.

I believe the don't expect any deals part but the rest is Balony.

On 6/25/2020 at 11:48 PM, DANCING GRANDMOMMY said:

I will make sure mine do.

Add some for me too while your at it.im broke.

On 6/26/2020 at 5:03 PM, firefly333 said:

Was it ever safe before? There were noro outbreaks, hurricanes, I lost my car to the one hit Galveston.

 

Life never was 100%, at some pt you either are willing to life and do what you want as allowed or not. I'll sign up for 1st vaccine and sign a waiver,... whatever it takes.

 

There have always been risks 

Well said

I got $100 for booking a journeys cruise then t.a.gave me $175.but then again I'm paying $240 a day for an inside cabin 2 Peeps.but it's saving me money on the flight to San Juan and a hotel stay.prices have tripled since we went 5 years ago.ive never gotten more than $50 from carnival or anyone else for that matter.i don't worry about obc but the best price for the itiniary.we are flexible on dates.

I'm booked for 2022 before this mayhem went into effect and believe me I did not get a deal.ipaid a premium for the itiniary,the home port and cabin location.i put a little over half down.when I booked it I didn't intend to cruise again and still don't.too many other things in life to do before our expiration date comes around.we enjoyed most of it.none were perfect some were less enjoyable than others.hopefully we will go on this cruise if not I'll take the loss and move on.

27 minutes ago, xDisconnections said:

Oh look, it’s another group of people about to wait 90+ days for their refunds.

Hell I'm still in the first group waiting it's been 90 days.

1 hour ago, jimbo5544 said:

Do you think they will be pressured by the builders to take possession?

.normally with equipment builds ( I only know about food processing equipment) you pay a third up front another 1/3 halfway and the rest after the test run before delivery.the ship builder might be okay with carnival not picking up a ship anytime soon other than tying up space.but then Europeans look at their money differently.

1 hour ago, jimbo5544 said:

Most cruise lines did away with the bargain basement pricing a while a go.  With cruise lines going with the start slow, this will give them the best chance at being profitable as the virus wanes and cruise line demand grows.  If that happens, pricing will probably be a premium, you might disagree, but that is the best case scenario for everybody.    

I'm with you on that one especially if they have to sail at reduced capacity.i see prices going up.you got so many chomping at the bit to cruise I believe they will overlook the price increases.im looking to do one next year on msc then retire from cruising altogethor with a journeys cruise in 2022. I've been putting off my knee replacement surgeries for too long as it is.

They went to go get John Heald to take him back to Cleveland Ohio with his pet yak since they weren't doing anything in the u.k.

If I have to wear a mask I'm not cruising period.my wife is gobbling all this covid stuff up.she makes masks all day to give out to the family.restaurants are open for eat in she still won't do nothing but takeout.i don't swim .wife says she can, never saw her in the water but once that was at halfmoon cay with the youngest grandson other than that we just people watch around the pool.

On 6/11/2020 at 4:45 PM, PhillyFan33579 said:

How many people do you think would be willing to fly to foreign ports to cruise on Carnival ships? I don’t know the answer but I imagine it would be significantly lower than the number of passengers who cruise on Carnival from US ports. 

I don't even want to fly to Miami that's why I paid a premium to sail out of Charleston SC.only 2 hours away.if I fly overseas it won't be for a carnival Cruise..

On 5/29/2020 at 9:26 AM, Trueblueky said:

I do not take a suit.  I am retired.

 

I wear dress slacks, button-down shirt, tie, light solid-color pullover sweater.  Some years, it is the only time I wear a tie, but some years, funerals and weddings....

 

I'd say I'm about average in attire.

I'm retired too but what does that have to do with anything.we don't dress up anymore because it's carnival so what's the point in bringing dress clothes?last 2 carnival cruises my wife felt we were over dressed especially in the steak house.so I told her to not worry about the garment bags I'm just fine in a t shirt and jogging pants and oh yeah the camo Crocs.

58 minutes ago, ninjacat123 said:

And that hopefully means I'll be going on my Sept 3, 2020 cruise!!  Thx for posting the article😀

I hope you do too give us a report when you get back.

2 hours ago, Organized Chaos said:

 

Oftentimes, Carnival hasn't been very good at letting their customers know what they're thinking or what they're going to do up front. They often remain pretty tight-lipped until they're ready to make an announcement. However, with new safety measures and procedures related to the virus, maybe they'll give cruisers a heads up. Or maybe not. We cruised in March, the last one aboard the Horizon before the shutdown, and it's not like they let us know about additional safety measures ahead of time. Like the health screening (just a questionnaire), temperature checks at embarkation, and crew members serving the food in the buffet instead of self-serve. Not that any of those things turned out to be a hindrance, they weren't. Just pointing out that we weren't told about the changes ahead of time.

 

 

In all fairness, many of Carnival's ports of call already have COVID-19 there. Obviously it's nowhere near as big of an outbreak as us, but there's good reasons for that. They have much smaller populations and they're relatively small, isolated islands, which makes it easier to contain the situation. But it's not like tourists would introducing the virus for the first time in many of those places. Granted, they don't want a new wave of contagious tourists. Understandably so. On the flip side, let's hope they take precautions to not spread it themselves. For example, the Dominican Republic plans to reopen next month. They still have over 20,000 cases, one of the highest number of cases in the Caribbean. So precautions need to be taken to protect people on all sides.

I agree with carnival being pretty slack in the communication department.our last carnival Cruise was during a hurricane week.i was figuring they would reroute .I was wrong so 2 days of rough seas and heavy rain and they still docked in Nassau .needless to say we didn't stay long which was a disappointment because we took the grandkids on their first cruise just to get drowned in a heavy down pour all day.it is what it is.ww haven't sailed carnival since and won't again until 2022 with a journeys cruise.its nice to not have to fly to San Juan to do a southern itiniary.

On 6/4/2020 at 12:59 PM, ready2cruzagain said:

Hate to see it is 3, 4 and 7 day cruises, I love the longer ones and just where do you go for 3 days out of PC?

Bahamas somewhere probably ocean cay