Book yourself Spirit class and you get the best of both worlds aft serenity with pool! I booked Jan 26th 2025 Miracle out of Galveston 12 nice days in Jan and probably almost no kids and goes to the ABC islands. Perfect for me.
+1 for me. I tend to follow the Spirit class ships around. We are going to grow old together 😉 . But I did find the Panorama to be acceptable but no bigger than that.
All they need is your name, email address, and proof of ownership and sail date, ship etc. NO giving your password to any accounts, no income or other information!
Carnival will not ask you for a letter. They sell cruises, not referee custody of children. I took my daughters when they were younger numerous times and no issues. Customs did pull my younger daughter aside one time and asked her if I was her father and that was it. Notorized letters are only recommended.
I follow the Spirit class where they go. Nice longer cruises out of Galveston have me following the Miracle for a 12 day ABC island, and eventually the Legend for Caribbean cruises. Out of 21 cruises 9 were on the Miracle so you know where my loyalty lies 😄 .
I applied several a couple days ago. Like 19cruiser said above it is a two step process that is a bit different than before the website change. I entered the gift cards above. Then I had to go down a bit and choose one of the options to finish applying them. I chose "other amount" put in the amount I wanted applied, and then clicked "select" and was able to finish transaction from there.
Manicure scissors are so small they wouldn't even be seen in a shower bag with all the junk.The blade is half inch teeny tiny thing. I would never go out of my way to pay to remove simple stitches but maybe I am alone in this.
Cheers will be refunded to the original form of payment. In 2019 I had a 4 person room with only three of us showing up. We had to buy cheers for all four so we could get the pre purchase discount, but after the cruise the money for my daughter who no showed was refunded.
Once in 100 percent penalty and there is no insurance I would never ever call to cancel. Carnival is like a box of chocolates........you never know what you'll get! All the excursions and cheers, port fees and gratuities will automatically be refunded.
Carnival took a perfectly working system for gift cards and made it harder to use now. The old way was much easier! I guess their IT dept has to justify their existence every now and then 😉
As PE said above the limit is currently 5 per person per month for Princess as of now. They are not listed as the "premium" that allows the higher limit of 25 per month per person. So that means if you buy any other gift cards from AARP(non Princess) that are not premium it will cut into your limit of 5 per month. Princess gift cards are only 8 percent of compared to the 10 for Carnival.
Charging for a third entree is quite reasonable to me. The amount of food wasted on cruises is ridiculous, especially lido deck! I see plates piled high wasted all over lido deck, people seemingly cannot control themselves when loading up.
Thankfully the Spirit class cannot be "sunshined" very much. No aft lounge to get rid of. Can't do a whole lot more than what happened to the Pride with the lower part of the night club removed and converted to 5 staterooms and a dedicated chef's table room. This change was reasonable imho. I found the Radiance to be just too crowded for my taste.
Usually Carnival will send you an email confirming your OBC. The benefit will more than likely be renewed in spring for Cruises beginning after July 31st of 2024.