cpshaye

1 hour ago, scottamemnon said:

OK high 70s is not hot to me... our normal temps are in the 74-76 range in our house.. so it sounds like it wont be an issue for us Floridians.  Thanks for clarifying!

High 70s isn't hot to me, either, when outside. But other than in my childhood home without a/c it is never that warm inside. And never had it been that warm inside on a cruise ship before. Like I said, it wasn't a deal breaker for us, but it made it a little less enjoyable for us and it made our stay at the alchemy bar shorter than usual every night. 

I just want people to be aware especially if they are sensitive to the inside heat. 

9 minutes ago, scottamemnon said:

Now you are making me nervous about my sailing coming up.  Of course we are too late to switch ships.  I have multiple cruises scheduled this year and I wouldn't suffer for one less, but I am not going to lose the money.  Sailing with a 1 year old for the first time, dinner will be challenging enough, but he will be cranky if its sweltering.  Of course I live in FL, so my heat tolerance is better than most.

It didn't "ruin" our cruise. And honestly it wasn't everywhere. And we're not talking like "outside" hot. Just def warmer than it should be. My guestimate would be it was probably high 70s in the warm areas. 

We were on the 5/14 and the 5/22 sailings, and were hot in a lot of spaces. Mainly deck 5. (Ocean Plaza, outer edges of Pig and Anchor, Alchemy) and the atrium.

We had a great time, though!

What about priority debarkation? Self service (no putting out bags), are they still giving out a letter saying when/where to meet to debark before they start calling other muster stations? The web site is confusing. 

We're currently near the end of our first cruise on the Horizon for this B2B. (cruise "change over" is Sunday.) Those of you who have received small "perks", when did you get them? 

9 minutes ago, bar1068 said:

We were on this cruise also, last weeks Horizon ABCs. I spoke with someone who was doing a b2b and asked her the same about testing before this weeks cruise and she said nope, not required to test.

Thank you! One less thing to stress about! 

7 hours ago, cruzluver2 said:

We were on the same cruise last week and are doing a b2b this week.  The ship is beautiful!  We miss the Fabulous Duo dancing in the atrium and would love to know who they were. They were so entertaining!  I do feel Horizon could have better entertainment.  The musicians other than violinists are lacking.

Bummed to hear the musicians are lacking. But we won't let that "ruin" our cruise! 

For the B2B, are they currently doing the testing on the last night of the first cruise? I hear it's up to the Captain.

7 hours ago, helene109 said:

So helpful! We board the Horizon Saturday 8 days! Never been to Aruba and Curacao! Hopefully elevators are easy! Do you know what movies were on the IMAX? Thanks!

I was told Fantastic Beasts and Morbius.  

See you Saturday! Can't wait!

Thank you! It was like that when we were on the Mardi Gras but that Havana area is a little different setup.

Hello! We will be in a Havana Cabana room on our upcoming cruise. Our "other" social media site is doing a gift exchange with groups of 5. Will others not in a Havana room be able to get into the hall to drop the gifts to our room (and others in our area?)

Same

No. We have a Havana cabana the first round. They didn't have it or any other cabanas available for both cruises. Ultimately we decided to do a Havana inside (right across the hall from our original room) for the second leg. 

1 hour ago, ObstructedView2 said:

@cpshaye

Unrelated to your original question. I'm just curious if you booked the same cabin for both voyages?? 

 

 

🙂

Thanks everyone! 

I read the following on the carnival site, and we plan on bringing 2 bottles of wine each. If we aren't marked as b2b from the beginning I don't know how that works? 

Alcohol and Beverage Policy
The same policy applies - click here for details. You are entitled to bring onboard the same quantity as stated in the policy, per guest, per cruise. The additional quantities will be stored for safekeeping at the start of the first cruise and will be given to the guest as each following cruise begins.  
 

Hi all. We decided to do our first b2b in May. Yay! We have had the first leg booked for quite a while and then just booked the 2nd leg this weekend. I read we had to call carnival to get them linked (we booked them online.) I did that today, a long 1 1/2 hour call bcz what wound up being a technical issue in their end. But she says it's done now, they recognize it as a b2b. 

My question to her was, would I be able to see on my online booking somehow that they are linked. She said yes. I asked this because we didn't get an email or anything to the effect that it was successful. 

My question to you is, HOW do I see that it is considered a b2b online? They have different booking numbers of course and I don't see anything anywhere. Am I overlooking it? 

1) I think we paid $99 for a 3 pack

2) proctor is included

3) separate calls. You ech need to create a login.

4) we did ours today, super easy and fast! 

   4b) we had CVS and Walgreens scheduled as backup. Canceled after our tests went smoothly.

Good luck

15 minutes ago, JanetGofWI said:

Timer expired and I was connected to a proctor. They read the results Negative and was told they would enter them into the app.

That is most awesome news! Yay! 

21 minutes ago, 2fromaurora said:

I'm back at square one. I was online for 6 hours (on hold on the phone for 4) before they FINALLY had the message on their website that AWS had gone down.  So, sailing on Thursday and still no test results and will be on a plane all day tomorrow.  i guess I'll have to pay extra at MIA.  SO ANNOYED 

Oh no! So it was part of the big Amazon outage that effected so many things! I'm so sorry you are going through this. 

Best wishes to you and your cruise party! 

9 minutes ago, pks3 said:

 

Another issue wiht the BinaxNow test - my F-I-L just used one of those tests on Sunday, and tested Positive, so we got him a PCR test by a nearby lab and isolated him.  He had zero symptoms btw, and the PCR test came back negative.  This makes me think that the Binax tests have a possibility of returning false positives.  If folks are just counting on this test alone before getting on the cruise, and don't have a backup plan to get tested somewhere else in case of this type of scenario, that can create the exact stress that they are trying to avoid by spending money on these tests to begin with.  

 

IN our case, we are traveling to California and are in hotels ahead of our cruise from Long Beach, which departs on 27th, so we're going to have to get the tests done on the 26th. I was planning on using these tests for the entire group even though most of us have insurance coverage, but now I'm back to scheduling appt for a nearby Pharmacy or lab.  

 

 

Any type of test from anywhere can give false positive or negative results. 

I agree with the backup (see my previous post.) Doing the BinaxNow test this Friday, and have cvs appt scheduled for Friday evening as back up. 

Good luck! 

3 hours ago, 2fromaurora said:

I do NOT recommend taking the  emed home proctored BinaxNOW test.  While I  was helped immediately to take the test, I have been waiting online now for 4 hours for a proctor to return to confirm my results. I have also been on  hold on the phone for nearly 3 hours to try to get assistance.  If you  must do this, make sure you don't have meetings or actually have to work for the entire day.  SO STRESSFUL!!!!!!!!!!!

   Did you ever get this resolved? I thought the test is invalid to read after a period of time. I hope this has a happy ending!

19 minutes ago, mrak said:

I have read people going to do their at home tests only to find there was no liquid in the bottle...Are you able to open the test and check for liquid right when you receive the tests? Or can you not "break the seal" to check until you are live with eMed? 

No. You cannot open the box before you are on the video to test (from the videos I've watched.) that's why we bought 3 tests for the 2 of us AND have appts at cvs later on the day. 

12 minutes ago, Duanerice1 said:

Got it.   I was watching testing closely when we went to Hawaii as it was a requirement there too and this is the first I've heard of any testing being cancelled.  Good to know but I'll take the chance.  

Yeah, I understand. 

My thoughts, spending $35 for a home test and peace of mind is worth it. There were LOTS of CVS that canceled in that time frame. I haven't heard it happening since, but... I'm not going through that again. 

For this next trip coming up, I bought a 3 pack of home test for the hubby and me (reports of not enough of the activation liquid in some tests) so we have an extra. We also have CVS appt scheduled for next Friday. We are Also going to make an appt with Walgreens when the date opens up. 

If all goes well with the home test, we will cancel the others. 

You asked why ppl are buying kits instead of doing the free one. It's bcz some of us are a little gun shy of putting all our eggs in one basket. Ask Saint Greg. He was going on the same Mardi Gras trip as we did. His CVS appt did not get canceled, but he, I belive, had to do the test elsewhere as well bcz he didn't get his results until late. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. 

3 minutes ago, Duanerice1 said:

Question, and I may be missing something.  I see people are paying for the test.  It seems I can go to Walgreens and get the Rapid test for free.  Why wouldn't I?  It states that it's good for most travel including Hawaii.

 

So, am I missing something?  Can I just got to Walgreens and get the test in the drive though?  It's free and quick.  Plenty of appointments available

Thanks

When we went in late August, cvs canceled our test the day before it was scheduled. We scrambled trying to find somewhere to do the test before our flight. Finally found an urgent care that gave us a 10pm appt the day before we left. We got the results the next afternoon. 

Spending the money for the home test this time (wasn't an option the first time) is well worth the money! 

Omg, thank you, Fred! 

2 hours ago, Wennfred said:

No the test Does Not need to be in view of the camera during the 15 minute wait, just put the test down and don’t mess.

 

You can adjust the phone or tablet so they can see you, you can show them the QR code of the box and also your ID by simply facing those to the camera.Simply hold the phone vertical so they can see the kit as you open it etc. or have someone hold it for you or just prop it up.
 

When the test is complete, you can just put the phone down but be back when the 15 minute timer is over, it will have a beeping sound so that’s when you pick up. Then you pick up the test and show them the blue control line.

 

Then you’re done, don’t over think this as it’s a very easy process.

 

Fred

OK, I'm obsessing and am paranoid we are going to screw this up!  I've been searching/researching for TWO HOURS and I still don't know the following! HELP!

We have the BinaxNow tests.  I've read through the thread.  I've watched several videos.  My questions are: 

1) does the test have to be in view of their camera for the waiting 15 minutes? (I'm not counting the actual opening of the test, the sample extraction and activating the test - just the wait time, when they say you can walk away.)

and if so

2) how do you do this?  The videos I've seen had ppl have special tripods to hold the phone to show it. We don't have that.  My SurfacePro has a camera but I don't think I can angle it to show the card on the table.

Logistics.  That's what I'm worried about.  LOL.  We leave in 10 days...

Thanks!

2 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

Thats good