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Because Alaska's economy is much more dependent on tourism dollars from cruisers vs. Hawaii. How many nonstop flights from the continental US (or from anywhere for that matter) are there to Alaska as compared to Hawaii? And how many cruises with Hawaii itineraries vs. Alaska?

I saw similar on Princess... someone dropped the serving spoon or tongs on the floor then put it back in the dish🙄 I told someone and they replace the whole pan of food.

The problem is Princess cheerleaders justifying or defending Princess' boneheaded and passenger-unfriendly decisions (i.e., "well if you had read that Diamond Princess press release, you would have known...").

Still not a PVSA violation. PVSA applies to voyages on a single ship, not the whole cruise line. Not mention they would have debarked in one port and embarked in another. Changing ports and/or changing ships "breaks" any potential PVSA-violating (single) voyage, because it creates two distinct voyages. Whoever told @Cruise Raider this was a PVSA violation was wrong to begin with.

🙄🙄🙄 Clearly OP meant no notice to people who already had reservations for Sterling Steakhouse. I hope you don't seriously expect someone who made a reservation in advance to go scouring the internet for a press release (with Sapphire tangentially mentioned, at that) just in case Princess happened to change the type of restaurant before their sailing.

If you want a whole cake, you will need to order and pay for it yourself. Carnival no longer provides those for free. If you're happy being sung to with a candle in a piece of dessert, just let your MDR waiter know its your birthday and they can take care of that.

I think they prefer that 2 people using their Plus package dining credits not take up 4 casual dining seatings.

That second elegant night menu isn't correct. First and second elegant night menus should look similar to this... The menus may vary slightly over time and from ship to ship (this one doesn't have prime rib the first elegant night) but the two elegant nights are definitely different menus.

The "dining" is limited to crudités, a charcuterie board, and truffles. They can be purchased a la carte or as prix fixe menu with one of each. The prix fixe menu is considered a casual dining "meal" if you have the Plus or Premier package.

The two elegant night menus are pretty different. Both have prime rib, and only the second elegant night has complimentary lobster. Beef Wellington is served on a regular night on 8-night sailings but may not be on the menu on 6- or 7-night sailings.

You have to get Carnival's approval ahead of time (as in make the request now). People will respond that they have or haven't done this before, but the only response that matters for you is how Carnival responds when you make the request now for next month's cruise.

Fine you for what? It's not a PVSA violation. Carnival can't hold you hostage. If they won't approve an early debark in advance, just have a family emergency the night before and go to Guest Services telling them you need to disembark in Aruba.

It's hit or miss depending on the port and who is doing the screening and their mood/whim on any particular day. But if it does get confiscated please don't come back here complaining, even if someone on here tells you it's allowed, because you were aware of the rule and the possibility that it could get confiscated.

Not necessarily. The algorithms maximize total revenue from the series upgrades from the lowest cabin to the highest cabin, so just because someone has the highest bid for a particular category doesn't mean that some else's lower bid isn't part of a different series of bids that better maximizes total revenue.

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.