TehPatch

I'm sort of interested in whether or not the state gets involved - There was an article about how one of the Florida ports tried to do the same thing (I think it was Miami?) and the state stepped in and said "uh-uh" but I guess we'll see. It's 2024 and if the last few years have taught me anything, nothing is ever set in stone and things change on a dime.

I think you'll have a good time - Make sure to give yourself some time in the city (we are from there) and it'll be one of the last as Carnival did not re-up their deal with the city port. I am working under the assumption that we will get another company to take their place, who that may be I don't know yet

Thanks all for the heads up - Kind of a shame on certain items, I'm waffling between understanding and thinking their reasoning is silly - but it is what it is.

Want to preface this by saying, this is not me bitching about a bad cruise. Family and I had a great time. It is however our first cruise since the "before times" and I wanted to see if other experiences lined up with things that I saw. #1 Elegant Night - I know that they had always been sort of "lax" on the policy of people in the dining room, but this go around Elegant night felt like anything but, We noticed that there weren't the table cloths on the table, etc etc. It just felt like another night in the dining room with Prime Rib. Has this whole process gone the way of the do-do (Honestly, I don't particularly care, but the Wife really liked that aspect of the cruise, and as this was our first time with our munchkin she was so happy to get him dressed to the nines. ) I'm wondering if the table cloths are problematic because of disease transmission but, who knows. The lack of printed menus was kind of sad to see (at least on this particular night) - but that seems to be a universal practice (I'll talk about the app later) #2 The use of the app - The app itself for us worked more or less as intended but I will say it doesn't completely replace the old pamphlet. Things that seemed like they should be easy auto includes (Movie playing on the tv, the only time you could see the schedule was if you happened to catch the schedule between the movies) and a couple of other minor things. Again, I don't think a move to the app is a bad thing, and I am all for saving paper when appropriate - but it didn't seem to be a direct 1:1 #3 Movie selection - This was the one thing that if I did want to complain, I'd do it. All the of the 7 o'clock movies on Lido were either Art house films or movies I wouldn't deem 'Family friendly' (They did play Spider Man the last night, so that was a minor win) but I was kind of looking forward to watching a movie with my kid, but as awesome as the new Dune movie was, I'm not letting my 4 year old watch it (Dad, what's spice ... What's Shai Hulud .. why are they walking like that ..etc etc etc) Honestly, I've seen Frozen, and Encanto, and Big Hero .. and literally every Disney Movie 10 million times, but I would have rather seen those again as like "family night with popcorn" #4 Epic Rock - Wife and kid loved this show - Me, not so much, but that's another story. That being said, isn't this the same show that's been running for 5+ years? I feel like I saw the same thing in 2017? (Maybe it's just that it didn't get its fair shake because of the shut down and if that's the case, carry on) #5 Missing Hasbro connection? They didn't do the game show night (it was deal or no deal and I won 50 bucks, so score) but I snuck into the library to see if they still had their collection of board games, no dice (Hah, dad joke) Those things not withstanding, there were personal favorites, and some new takes that I did love. Guys Burgers is still one of my favorite restaurants. The Sea day brunch menu was new to us and that Aft Deck Brisket Burger was great. The covid screening process was actually pretty easy. We did our tests 48 hours before hand and munchkin did his second on the morning, outside of the lady checking our paperwork appearing to be high (That's another story, and a contracted group not on Carnival so I'm not holding it against them - Literally, she was confused as she was looking at my drivers license with my wife's birth certificate and trying to figure out why the names weren't on the 'unvaccinated list' here's a hint, we're both adults, we have had our vaccines, it was only our 4 year old who until a week ago ... yeah anyway .. dumb) Anywho - Like I said, just commentary on how things had changed, see if anyone had noticed the same thing or if it was just a weird timing issue. I know we aren't fully back to normal and I expect some things to have permanent changes. It's not enough to get me to stop sailing Carnival just this guys observations.