BlerkOne

Cheap cheap cheap. For flying, cruising, whatever.

Carnival was far ahead of the times and the casino was not the only reason. The crew likes to smoke, too. These days, the ship might well succeed. I could be worth another experiment since Fantasy class ships seem to be on the way out. Meanwhile Celebrity has smoke free casinos and does okay. Disney doesn't have any at all.

Unvaccinated cruisers still have 2 tests before boarding. If vaccinated and you want a 3 day antigen test window before a cruise: dose(s) Up to Date Received all recommended COVID-19 vaccines, including any booster dose(s) when eligible at least 7 days before embarkation. Antigen within 3 days OR PCR within 3 days

Yes, it is back, but when I try booking it errors. So I'd say it is toggling between sold out and not. It will likely disappear now and then. But around final payment, all kinds of cabin should pop up.

The smoke free Paradise comes to mind. Some of the true innovators are no longer in business.

As you say, the wording hasn't changed (although I think some words have changed), so the policy hasn't changed. What did change was enforcement of a policy already written. And enforcement has already been relaxed in many cases. I do give you credit for not saying you will pull tips as a result.

We agree to disagree. There are still more people who haven't cruised than have cruised, and novice cruisers are Carnival's target market. In addition, Carnival picks up disgruntled cruisers from other lines. Carnival wants repeat cruisers who cruise for the brand and not for perks. Not everyone needs to be bribed

They certainly do need some past guests to sail. But you can never have over 100% retention. Loyal customers don't pay for new ships - new customers grow the business. If Carnival wasn't satisfied with the repeat customer numbers, they would make changes

Needed? No. But if you want smoother and faster boarding?

All loyalty programs are nothing more than marketing gimmicks and none are sustainable without change. You earned nothing.. You don't even owned your days at sea.

There aren't well over a million suite cruisers, are there?

My money, my choice. You could have done better with other investments. Just sayin' CCL did suspend dividends after 9/11. This isn't the first time.

Preaching to the choir I would do the same but periodically sell off the excess Cruise lines like Royal have a similar program, but as I understand it, deny even more people than Carnival. Plus their stock price requires a much higher investment to maybe get the same OBC.

Never been denied and was never interested in holding more than the minimum to get the shareholder benefit. Currently own none but will buy 100 shares to get the benefit for a cruise I booked recently. Already have the OBC for the other cruises remaining this year.

General consensus among Carnival haters, no doubt. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the competing cruise lines are behind some of the rumors. No way can a 2 hour long wait for pizza after midnight be compared to a 2 hour wait to be seated for dinner.

I garontee Celebrity and Royal have staffing issues. On one Celebrity Infinity sailing passengers were having to wait up to 2 hours to be seated for dinner. They were even pulling staff from the spa to help.

I posted pictures and some info here (Don't go looking for the Rolls - they are moving it to Celebration):

I believe until the ship is actually beached, Carnival is free to sell it to someone else, keep it, or whatever.

Pride dry dock is scheduled 4/26/23-5/27/23.

Unbelievable how some want to blame the victim. It is a two way street. There are no innocents. If everyone stayed home there would be no covid on ships. I doubt positivity is anywhere close to 20% on a cruise ship. I don't doubt you can find a 20% rate on land.

I agree. I posted the link to where the quotes came from, and it was the same source. I do question their knowledge. Hopefully the people operating the shore excursions have a better idea of ship time (and they do).

Specifically here: https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=3075

and HAL.

These quotes are from the same source - Cruise Critic.

The Caribbean would get particularly confusing if ships changed to local time at each port of call. Even though time zones are fairly straightforward, the waters get a bit muddied when it comes to daylight saving time. Most Caribbean cruise ports do not set clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall, but a few do. Because of that, some Caribbean itineraries would cause passengers to reset their watches back and forth several times during a short cruise. Many ships in the Caribbean simply advise passengers to stay on cruise ship time when going ashore. That is not usually the case elsewhere around the globe.