DallasGuy75219

Obviously I can't speak to what OP's parents were told they were getting (FCCs or FCDs), but Princess' own semantics only confuse the issue. When I look up my open/pending Future Cruise Deposits, Princess shows them under Future Cruise Credits section. So an FCD is an FCC, but not every FCC is an FCD.

Carnival won't serve OP's husband more than 15 drinks in a 24 hour period (6 am to 6 am), regardless of what combination of Drinks on Us, Cheers, or individually purchased drinks. If husband will be doing most of his drinking in the casino and OP isn't a big drinker, it may make more sense to buy their drinks a la carte rather than buying Cheers when husband already has DOU.

Based on the info OP provided, there is no way for her and husband to cruise for free and to have Cheers without all four paying for Cheers. Mom and aunt are the ones with free cruise offers. They have to book in their own cabins so there are a third and fourth lower bed available for OP and husband. They can get "key only" S&S cards made so people can sleep in a different cabin than assigned; Carnival doesn't care who sleeps where. But Carnival will not (either before or during the cruise) reassign mom and aunt together and put OP and husband in the same cabin, because no one who would be in that cabin had the casino offer. Plus Carnival knows about the "moving people around" trick to not have to buy Cheers for everyone. Sometimes it works but not in this case when mom and aunt are the only ones with the casino offer. There is only one circumstance in which this would work. If mom and aunt had Drinks On Us Everywhere (not just in the casino), Carnival will let just their roommates buy Cheers because mom and aunt essentially already have Cheers, just paid for by casino. But this can only be done onboard (not with the Cheers prepaid discount) because a bar manager has to override the transaction to sell Cheers to just one person in the cabin.

Last time I bought FCC was January 2023. I was able to leave a form in a drop box and the $100 was automatically charged to the credit card I had on file for my onboard changes. Has the process changed and I now have to give a credit card directly to O.N.E.?

"Bait and switch" is quite an exaggeration considering you could have still had a free interior room and you're out exactly $0 since they've corrected the offer and you've canceled with no penalty.

Just about anywhere other than Vines, the wine list only lists the varietals available with Plus, not the vineyard/winemaker. So you order a Cabernet or Chardonnay and very likely get the cheapest label they have, often some plonk like Canyon Road.

Exactly, a regular bartender can't sell Cheers to a partial cabin, even if the other person has DOU Everywhere. Just ask for a bar manager from the beginning because they will have to override the system to sell Cheers just to the others in the cabin.

Except I posted about the clientele that Carnival attracts on New Orleans cruises (due to the catchment area of cruisers within driving distance), not New Orleanians themselves. I'm originally from south Louisiana and know all New Orleanians/ Louisianians are not like that. In 47 Carnival cruises, I've sailed out of every US homeport except New York, San Francisco, and Norfolk. Approximately 12 of those have been out of New Orleans and I can unequivocally say that the passengers out of New Orleans (not from New Orleans) are some of the 'grossest' and most ill-mannered and uncultured I've seen on any cruises.

Clearly the casino won't be open *in port*. My point was how far in advance of docking the casino closes and that it doesn't reopen after the late token port call in Victoria or Vancouver, so some people get caught off guard and can't cash out.

And Victoria. On Crown in 2022, we were in Victoria from 6 pm to midnight on the last full day of the cruise. The casino shut down around 11 am that day and stayed closed for the remainder of the cruise.

If I didn't know better I'd say Glory was still homeported in New Orleans, because those are exactly the kind of clientele Carnival attracts there, even moreso on the 4/5 nights sailings.

You can't walk in and pick a table. Period. At least not until the upcoming MDR changes are effective. At best you can ask for a table in a certain section or with a specific wait team, or a 2- or 4- top, or a table by a window, perhaps. Just because you see a table empty (and even set) doesn't mean their's a wait team available to work it as soon you sit down. Once the upcoming MDR changes are effective and there is assigned dining agan, you can probably get your assigned table changed, but only to another table that's available, not to any table of your choosing.

Most cruiselines won't let you book fewer people in a cabin than its maximum capacity (e.g , you can't put 1 or 2 people in a cabin that holds 3 or 4). To see those open cabins, you have to search with 3 or 4 passengers. Sometimes a cruise line agent can/will book you into those with fewer passengers than maximum capacity. Sometimes (especially in off-peak periods) all 2-person cabins in a category are booked so you can only book 2 people into a guarantee (this sounds like OP's situation), and closer to sailing you'll be assigned to a 3- or 4- person cabin as the cruise line determines how many are not likely to be booked with 3 or 4 passengers.

Definitely no USB ports. Whatever the bedside lamps were plugged into I believe was behind the bed, so I didn't see if they were US or European outlets.

If you can't get another bungalow under the other booking, maybe ask onboard if they will let you put 2 additional people (for a total of 8) for another $50 fee. Not sure if that will make it too cramped, but with 3 of the 8 being kids maybe that helps. You'll probably have to go directly to the ShoreEx manager who can hopefully see the big picture and bend the riles to help right Princess' wrong, i.e. you tried to do the right thing and book two separate bungalows for a 8 people, only to have Princess cancel one without notifying you because you violated their unpublished rule.