IntrepidFromDC

Here's a third vote for sailing from Manhattan... along with NOLA and Venice, Italy it's one of my favorite sail-away's.

Oh. I just noticed the dates of the posts. This isn't the thread I was looking for (use the force).

2/11? If so I'll see you on board!

Agreed that different people view cruise directors differently. Some people love them, rank them, love talking about them. I find them annoying without exception. It's just a matter of how annoying they are. To me, marq was up there with the "more annoying than average" but not "most annoying". I love the Alaska cruises because the naturalist/scientist boards and takes over with announcements and cruise director takes back seat. The naturalist announcements are interesting and add to the cruise experience.

Carnival Cruise Beer Menu (cruisecritic.com) Not impressive if you only like high-end craft beer (e.g., Pliny The Younger, World Wide Stout, etc.). I usually stick to rum while on the ship, it makes me talk like a pirate. Fun to order a Pirate Punch with a pirate accent. But at home I drink beer more often than not.

First, thanks for sharing everything, especially about the gang of kids beating up the autistic girl. That is heartbreaking and shocking, I've never seen anything like it on 27 Carnival cruises. Also so sorry for your five-year-old's experiences. I hope there were some good experiences (kid's club, etc.) to balance. Second, I was on the Venezia inaugural sailing from Barcelona to Manhattan and I'll be on it again (third time) sailing out of Manhattan in three weeks. I hope my experience is more like my first two, not like yours. I agree the service wasn't as "fun" and "cheerful" as the "regular" Carnival fleet, but I still had a really good time both times. And I always add two nights in Manhattan because I love NYC so much. In fact I just started salivating thinking about the meals I have planned. Anyway, I post this second point just for balance, Venezia apparently offers good and bad experiences. Happy cruising!

Well I guess I deserve it after googling images for the horse shenanigans yesterday. Or at the very least, it's self-inflicted - today I have horse supplement ads everywhere I websurf.

Closer and closer.

Just trying to do my little part to get this thing to 100 pages... 😁 🏴‍☠️

Kinda casts a whole new light on "Megan Thee Stallion"

Last but not least...

And le heating blanket...

I also predict Ravens/49'ers.

NEIGH! Sounds like horse treatment.

Thanks ninjapuddytat! I enjoyed every bit!

Thanks for the LIVE Sid, especially the pics and especially San Juan pics, but everything was fun to follow.

You didn't attach a previous post to this comment so I just want to be sure, you mean me, right?

What is that thing to the left of the meatball? Looks like an open-face brain sandwich.

Why not?

For me, $500 agreed. $100 depending on who I get to sit next to.

I don't dare you to get on the stage. I do dare you to get on the stage and belt out the entire song - "My Way" and i don't mean Sinatra style. 150 bonus points if you don't stop when Security shows up. 😁 🏴‍☠️

Usually it's something about cannoli or trofie, I think.

Frank, I went a couple months ago and although there are a lot of changes, it's still good, but it might take 15 minutes or so to digest the changes. Some of the changes... 1. The bar has been moved from near the food station to the opposite side and takes up more space. 2. It is now a two-level bar, as they've added high top tables to the area at the top of the steps to the gift shop and the bar itself serves both levels (kinda cool). 3. Others have commented on the price changes for umbrellas and chairs, I don't do either so I don't know about that. 4. The volleyball court has been moved and is now surrounded by tables in the sand, so forget about playing any real volleyball since the tables go almost to the out-of-bounds line. The locals who work there now seem really "local", not sure how to state this, just that the locals who worked under Jack's management seemed - I don't know - "gentrified"? Anyway it's still a great place, food is the same, drinks pretty much the same and the beach is still much better than the beach near the pier and the Carnival madness. I'm interested to hear what ninjacat says, too.

I think it might have been the hurricane and/or covid, meaning no business on Grand Turk for a long time. Anyway, Jack and daughter moved to Canada and took Kraken and Calypso with them.