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    Trivia would be more fun without cheaters

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

    Posted · Edited by USU_Aggie

    I get it. It's just an informal thing to hang out and answer some questions. But when I was on thy panorama this spring, I went to Harry Potter trivia. I love HP. So does my sister. There were a ton of teens and kids there who clearly do too. 
     

    My group missed 3-4 questions and they were very hard. Unsurprisingly, about 5 claimed to have gotten every question right, including a group of adults who also claimed a perfect score on the name that pop diva trivia that was immediately before the HP trivia. 
     

    So the trivia host (ironically a British person who knew literally nothing about HP or how to pronounce anything, but that didn't bother me) asks the 5 perfect score groups to nominate their most talented Potter nerd for a tie break. Each group sent up 1 person. The question was how many knuts are in a galleon. This is like asking how many pennies are in a $100 bill, except much harder because Wizarding money makes no sense. 
     

    The answer for context is 493. I didn't know it but anybody who has read HP would know it was a lot. 
     

    The 4 losing answers ranged from 5 to 100 and then one guess of 500. The group that claimed a perfect score on divas and HP said 5! I'd say it's the equivalent to being asked how many US presidents have there been and answering 833. If you know enough about HP to answer even 50% of the questions correctly, you know it isn't 5. 
     

    The person who guessed 500 came from one of the clearly Potter-crazed groups. Perhaps they got a perfect score. But the other four clearly cheated. 

     

    Anyway, this is my long rant on a very small issue. I wish carnival could grade the trivia answers instead of groups self-grading. 

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    Should we give Carnival another try?

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

    Posted

    1 minute ago, staceyglow said:

    Has anyone else noticed that the biggest complainers on this board seem to be folks who cruise for free or close to free on Carnival because of casino offers?

     

    Perhaps you guys should just insist on a refund.

     

     

     

    I'd be upset too. They're paying 5x more than the rest of us because the odds are so bad on the ships. 

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    Anyone currently on the Panaroma????

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, cacruisin said:

    Thank you all for your replies.  Have they advised at all what time disembarkment will begin?

    This was answered above 

     

    40 minutes ago, mkkao924 said:

    On Panorama now. According to the flyer we received, the express disembarkation will start at noon, and the normal disembarkation is from 12:15 to 1:45 pm.

     

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    check-in error

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

    Posted

    I have two rooms on the panorama april 8 sailing. I went to check in tonight and it worked for 4 of my 5 passengers, but one will not mark as complete. it keeps showing a gray checkmark next to the guest information link. No matter what I do, it stays gray. It is my 8 year old daughter, if that makes a difference. I've tried re-entering every piece of information for her on every screen but nothing will give me the green check mark. 

     

    Anybody fixed this on their own? If not, I'll call in the morning.

    Scotchie's in Montego Bay?

    in Jamaica

    Posted

    I'd be surprised if there is one. I lived in Jamaica for two years and unless they've changed something, they didn't have the facilities/parking to handle a big crowd. I get your concerns about safety. I wouldn't take a taxi in Jamaica, especially one from a taxi line (we were only allowed to take dispatched taxis as US gov employees), but if you reserve a driver with a reputable company, it's safe. 

    Bamboo Beach Club VIP

    in Jamaica

    Posted

    Hi-is there anything you would recommend for kids? Our boys are 4 1/2 and 9. I was thinking the rafting on the Martha Brae or the Dunns Falls? :)

     

     

    Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

     

    The falls are probably too much for young kids to climb, but they might like swimming in the pools there. I'd really suggest the jewel runaway bay. It has a great water park for kids that age. A beach, slides, lazy river, unlimited food and drinks, pools, games, etc.

    Bamboo Beach Club VIP

    in Jamaica

    Posted

    So I went to bamboo today with ~20 friends and tried to view the experience as though I were a tourist. Here are my thoughts. Service is extremely slow and lacking. It took me more than 2 hours to get my food and the place was 10% full. I'm used to it by now, but if you are on a tight schedule, it'd be annoying. The food was delicious but expensive. I had lobster, my wife had jerk chicken (not as good a second a jerk shack), daughter had kids grilled cheese ($12usd).

     

    Menu doesn't include 16% tax or 15% gratuity they automatically add. When I paid, it took 20 minutes to get my check as each server keeps their receipts so you can't get closed out until all servers happen to be at the bar at the same time. I paid my bill and they owed me $450 Jamaican dollars. They only had $200 Jamaican to give as change, nothing smaller. The waitress had the great idea that if I gave her 1,000 JMD and she gave me a 500 back, then that'd solve the situation... I told her to just keep the change she owed me and went on my way.

     

    Beautiful beach. Nice padded recliners. Cheap entrance. Easy to get to.

     

    Food is expensive. Sand is rough. Strong sewer smell. Loud music.

    Ochos Rios Beach Question

    in Jamaica

    Posted

    The margaritaville actually has a nice beach but not a great view (in an industrial harbor type setting). The sand is soft and they have a lot of chairs. Bamboo is faily nice, but rough gravely sand and no good snorkeling. Food is better at bamboo. The jewel runaway bay has a nice beach and water park but is 30 minutes away. You might want to try the jewel dunns river for a day pass.

    Bamboo Beach Club VIP

    in Jamaica

    Posted

    I am an American living in Jamaica and I go to bamboo for fun on the weekends. It's one of the nicer spots. I really disagree with the reviews, but for the price you quoted, I'd probably be upset too. I pay $7 to enter and then food costs 20-25 a person. The jerk lobster is one of the best I've had in Jamaica (and I eat a lot of jerk). Dunns river imo is not worth it. Blue hole has been really dirty lately too due to the hurricane. I'm unsure if it's cleared out, but it was a dangerous mess just a few weeks ago.

     

    I'd recommend some kind of a cultural tour with chukka. Jamaica has one of the richer cultures in th Caribbean.

    Request brochure by mail ???

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

    Posted

    And what will be the alternative?

     

    I have am a big fan of less printed paper but can't imagine a decent alternative.

     

     

     

    I always wondered why they didn't have small tv's in random spots on the ship displaying the fun times it could certain reduce the number printed.

     

     

     

     

    I'd bet they will put it on the TVs as an option like the dining menu and stop printing them except by request.

     

     

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    Motion Sickness

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

    Posted

    I use ginger and sea bands. I bought the sea bands on board thinking no way will they work but I had no other option. They worked really well! Same with ginger. I don't trust those hippy solutions usually, but they work for me. Especially together.

    St Lucia tour

    in St. Lucia

    Posted

    I did it last may. Great great excursion. The only problem I had was that they served some food with alcohol soaked in it and didn't tell me (I don't drink) but besides that, it was 5 stars all the way.

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