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Knights on the Beach

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    Florida
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    Carnival
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    Caribbean

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  1. We love Mardi Gras - we've been on it 4 times and September will be our 5th. Most of the things I see people complaining about don't bother us. We weren't crazy about the food in the MDR but there are so many other good options. Other than the first day, we've never found Mardi Gras to be overly crowded. We don't usually need to stand in long lines because we quickly learned what times are best to avoid them.
  2. Maybe my post wasn't clear enough but I was assuming they will apply the gift card to their S&S account once onboard.
  3. So so sorry about the crappy ending to your vacation! I loved following along on your cruise and my heart sank when I saw the pictures of your car. 😭
  4. Just paid our gratuities for the 4/20 cruise and it worked perfectly.
  5. It's all the same anyway. If you apply the $500 gift card (or whatever balance you have on it if you buy bottomless bubbles now), any charges made on the ship will come out of that amount. You will need to either go to guest services and have them add the card to your S&S account or you can do it at a kiosk onboard. We usually have everything paid for ahead of time and still have OBC so we've never applied a gift card onboard.
  6. I got the same message yesterday when I applied $45.77 from a card that had $500 on it. However, just above that message in red, it showed the $45.77 as the payment. I was paying gratuities for our 4/14 cruise and had 2 cards with small amounts and I applied those first then used the $500 card for the $45.77 balance. Since it looked like (to me) it was going to just use the $45.77 needed to complete the purchase even though I saw the message in red, I held my breath and submitted the payment. It went through just fine - our gratuities are paid and I have a $454.23 balance left on my $500 gift card (you bet I double checked that). 🙂 I figured if it did something crazy and applied the whole $500 to that cruise (showing $454.23 as a credit), I would just go ahead and buy Cheers. We plan to do that anyway, but usually do it the week before a cruise. Anyway, that was not the case. The transaction went through and I still have the correct balance on the gift card. Now I think I'll go ahead and pay the gratuities for the second leg of our B2B (4/20) with that same gift card since it seems to be working correctly (though that red message is confusing).
  7. You said you were able to see the gift card option for bottomless bubbles so why don't you go ahead and pay for that with a gift card? Although if you can pay for that with the gift card, I don't see why don't have the option to do the same for gratuities. BUT will your TA not handle the transaction for you? You shouldn't have to buy cruise cash to cover gratuities, you should be able to pay them outright. You can always leave the gratuities to be paid onboard and apply a gift card to your Sail & Sign account once on the ship.
  8. Looks like I have the same option to do it this way for our September Mardi Gras cruise. Yes, through my Carnival PVP.
  9. I was just able to pay our gratuities for our 4/14 cruise using 3 AARP gift cards. From Booking & Order Details, I clicked on View Invoice Details, then next to Prepaid Gratuities, I clicked on Add which took me to the payment screen showing the Gift Card option.
  10. Is this something new? We live 2 miles from CT-3 and generally use Uber/Lyft to get there but have taken taxis home from CT-3, CT-6 and CT8.
  11. Since 11/26 is a Tuesday, that lot isn't likely to be full - but yes they are nuts! lol We live just about 2 miles from there and aren't usually there before daylight but there are almost always parking spots available there.
  12. Now we're getting somewhere! I'm not a coffee drinker but my hubby is and we LOVED hanging out in the mornings at Bar 820 on Celebration. Watching the morning shenanigans was way better than any production show. 😂 I'm hoping Ocean Plaza Bar will have a similar vibe in the mornings. Was anyone actually sitting at the bar, or just in line for coffee?
  13. Ah! We were on MG December 2022 so that must be it. I was thinking we saw him at Brass Magnolia once or twice that week.
  14. I was just thinking the same thing. But was wondering if he also worked at another bar on Mardi Gras or another ship?
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