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Just noticed Carnival excursions went up in price
BlerkOne replied to Eli_6's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Years ago, I was also know to print my own tender tickets. Carnival tended to use the same Avery blanks. -
Just noticed Carnival excursions went up in price
BlerkOne replied to Eli_6's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
or.... book the cheapest cruise line excursion to throw away have status or other priority to tender including making friends with someone who does have status. on European cruises, one time we took a (small) bus load of people off with our priority. get everyone up early enough to be at the front of the line for tender tickets. often the ship excursions do not begin tendering first thing and the early birds can indeed tender before the rest of the ship knows what is going on. Cruise lines do make it possible for people without priority to tender early if you follow the process. Even if a port has tenders, things happen - e.g. the union decides to strike for whatever reason. -
Just noticed Carnival excursions went up in price
BlerkOne replied to Eli_6's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
This is not exclusive to Carnival. On my current cruise, Oceania docked one ship in Ushuaia and tendered a second with ship tenders. Falkland Islands doesn't have a tender company and all cruise lines use their own tenders. It took hours to tender everyone ashore, and then hours to tender everyone back. The last tender time posted was a dream. -
Just noticed Carnival excursions went up in price
BlerkOne replied to Eli_6's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Cruise line tours are local tours under contract to the cruise line. How do you figure the locals make more? -
Tonight was lobster night, and it was good!
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Just noticed Carnival excursions went up in price
BlerkOne replied to Eli_6's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Oh please. You are smart enough to know inflation does not only impact Carnival and the economy in many other countries is worse than in the US. Europe has been much more impacted by the war than the US. In looking ahead, it isn't Europe that loses... https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-bulletin/focus/2022/html/ecb.ebbox202201_01~4bb2c93b96.en.html#:~:text=For 2023%2C all annual forecasts,sees inflation being below 2%. -
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BlerkOne replied to Buckeye_Siggy's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Maybe yes, maybe no. Do you feel lucky? -
Just noticed Carnival excursions went up in price
BlerkOne replied to Eli_6's topic in Carnival Cruise Lines
Exactly. The grocery store didn't notify me when they raised the price or pork or eggs. Or the gas station. or anyone else. Airfares are horrible. When their costs go up, they pass them along. -
One thing the overprice ship tours do get you is worry free tendering to shore. If you aren't Elite or higher, it is something you have to deal with.
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On the way to see more penguins!
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A little less than $200 is probably typical. Volunteer Point is privately owned and the family does limit the number of visitors allowed. I imagine they make lots of money off of their cut. In addition, they have thousands of sheep for additional income
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We agree to disagree. The company is irrelevant as long as you completely disembark.
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Aka discriminatory.
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The cruise ship. If the cruise line had a different ship available for a s2s, it would be fine. There are exceptions, for example Puerto Rico
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I went through a broker, but wanted to make sure I had something. I think about $240. Some were reluctant to allow a booking for one person. The ship wanted over double. It is about a 2 hour drive each way and about 2 hours at Volunteer Point
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This loner...
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Besides the seriously overpriced cruise ship tours, some other options
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I did, but the Magellanic penguins were far down the beach from where visitors are allowed to go.
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Any of the Volunteer Point tours, but they were King Penguins. The ship doesn't go far enough south to see Emperor penguins. I was on a private tour.
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Not using wheelchairs. You had to be able to walk down some stairs.
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Not a penguin - they can't fly
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Do a side to side and you're good. B2B on the same ship without a stop in a DISTANT foreign port is a violation. A foreign flagged ship, with few exceptions, can't operate as a ferry.
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Most of the vehicles appear to be Land Rovers that do these excursions, but there was an assortment of others. When on road, all seem to take the same road but offroad, the trails seem to be just a suggestion and new trails seem to be encouraged.
