Saint Greg's Venezia Transatlantic May 29, 2023

[Saint Greg]

Venezia0529Day5.pdf

[AHS123]

29 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

You’re in such a hurry to break news on my thread that you typed erformi6on…whatever that is. I posted a video of the announcement.

 

Live reviews should be a no buttinsky zone:

[rainbowflag]

5 minutes ago, AHS123 said:

Live reviews should be a no buttinsky zone:

Intrepid posted on Greg's review to reach a larger audience 🙂 

[IntrepidFromDC]

34 minutes ago, rainbowflag said:

Intrepid posted on Greg's review to reach a larger audience 🙂 

Actually I just didn't realize I defaulted to St. Greg's thread when the announcement woke me up.  Then I realized it when I scrolled and posted it to mine too.

[luvcruzing]

3 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

here you can see people utilizing the windows that open.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Carnival sealed these windows shut.

[luvcruzing]

 

Every time I see this funnel, I feel this should have been the second thing Carnival painted on this ship.

[Bound4Bermuda]

5 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

 

There are not many chairs by the pool. I guess on this itinerary it doesn’t matter, but I can imagine the chair fights will be wild when we take her out of NY to the Caribbean. 

[rolloman]

3 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

 

Is that rust blistering on the little table or water? For such a new ship the tables shouldn't be rusting that quickly.

[OBX-Cruisers]

On 5/29/2023 at 10:26 AM, Saint Greg said:

 

[OBX-Cruisers]

On 5/31/2023 at 2:28 PM, Saint Greg said:

No. Most of the people I’ve encountered in the service industry speak English better than people back home. I don’t want to insult them with my beginner Spanish. But the place I at lunch at today…nobody spoke English so it was very helpful there.

 

I have just found this blog and am enjoying catching up.  During your travels in Barcelona I wanted to add one recommendation that is again relevant here.  IF there is ONE phrase in 
Spanish that would be good to learn is "Take Us to the Port as Fast as Possible, Please".  Wife and I did take that second leg of the HOHO Turistic bus tour and were caught in late afternoon traffic jam.  Missed the shuttle to the ship along with about a dozen other people.  Everyone rushed off the HOHO at the termination and jumped into waiting cabs leaving us to get the last cab alone........................."Take us to the Porto.....adding an O to English words is just NOT the way to go BTW.......... but pointing to the 10 cabs in front of us worked and got us to the port just in time!!  Seeing that empty room in the port building in one of the pictures brought back old, frantic memories.

[Haljo1935]

On 6/1/2023 at 12:20 AM, Saint Greg said:

Carnival cruisers already making changes

 

 

Maybe they meant to mark out that Costa logo and replace it w/Carnival funnel. Could be cause of any slow crew responses - they gotta go find the Costa crew and bring them back on board.

[Haljo1935]

On 6/1/2023 at 8:36 AM, Saint Greg said:

To make things more interesting. There’s a road that goes through the runway. And there’s a stoplight whenever the planes are taking off/landing.

 

 

Bet you only run that light once...

[purpleally]

6 hours ago, AHS123 said:

Live reviews should be a no buttinsky zone:

Absolutely. I find it annoying when people go off track and write something that has nothing to do with what’s going on. Hijacking!

[Saint Greg]

What a day. I took it to the last minute. BOB was 5pm.

I was BOB at 5:11.

[Saint Greg]

6 hours ago, IntrepidFromDC said:

Actually I just didn't realize I defaulted to St. Greg's thread when the announcement woke me up.  Then I realized it when I scrolled and posted it to mine too.

I have to close out other CC windows when I’m done with them because in 2019 on magic i took some random cc thread and made it my live for a few minutes. 

[Saint Greg]

we got off on deck 1 today.

 

 

 

Watch the steps. They look rampish when you’re going down but they aren’t.

 

 

That’s the ramp for those who need it. Also how well get back on at around or after 5pm

 

 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Oh 4,400 guests is what GS told me @jimbo5544

[jimbo5544]

Just now, Saint Greg said:

Oh 4,400 guests is what GS told me @jimbo5544

Thanks!

[jimbo5544]

Just now, Saint Greg said:

Oh 4,400 guests is what GS told me @jimbo5544

Realize you have not had many (if at all) sea days, but would love your thoughts on only two pools (even with 4400).  

 

Thanks

[Saint Greg]

[Saint Greg]

After yesterday I was concerned about getting to do everything I want to do here in less time than we had yesterday. I thought maybe hop on hop off would be a good way to go. If I could go back I might do it differently.

 

This gray line hop on hop off is telling people the next bus is in 30 mins and they aren’t sure if they have room to sell anymore tickets. I’m not waiting on that.

 

 

[Saint Greg]

And now that I look at it knowing what I know. This may be mutiple hoho companies at the desk. Yellow line on the left and gray line on the right for sure.

 

[jimbo5544]

3 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

And now that I look at it knowing what I know. This may be mutiple hoho companies at the desk. Yellow line on the left and gray line on the right for sure.

 

DId take a tittle bit to figure out hoho, was thinking a childhood treat…..

[Saint Greg]

I stepped outside. Gray line pulls away well the city one pulls Up which is the company I’ve used in other cities. They’re selling tickets 27 euros…so I hop on. Oh there’s a red line and a blue line you get with this ticket. Red line is most popular and just left. 20mins for the next one. I’m just hopping on this blue line and I’ll pick up red where they meet.

 

 

I like the map on this one when folded it’s the size of my phone. Normal they’re much bigger and more difficult to deal with.

 

 

 

Edited June 2, 2023 by Saint Greg

[Saint Greg]

 

 

This is actually building art