BlerkOne

I don't even remember the 70s

Generally to drop bags off, but not always. A steward on one of my cruises wasn't thrilled that I was dropping off, but didn't tell me I couldn't. I went back around 1 to check on the cabin and the door was closed, but no key to be found. I did find the steward and he said he didn't put the keys out until all of his rooms were ready. Lesson learned.

Just used some Carnival cards. Not all cruise cards are the same. I also bought one for Celebrity and lucky it was only one. The T&C for the Celebrity cards indicate a max of $500 per person or $1000/cabin, new bookings, and I believe they indicated you can't use on the ship against your account. The Carnival cards don't have those restrictions.

You can prove people who test positive at the port or 2-3 days before aren't going cruising and aren't going to be shedding virus everywhere. More and more people are doing at home tests and in general not reporting to anyone, especially if not returning from a cruise and a member of a roll call group.

Call Carnival.

The point of the pre-test is to try to keep some covid off of the ships. It works as intended. Enough people contract covid cruising as it is. I know I don't want cruising shutdown again. Some people object to pre-cruise testing, but I haven't seen any complain about testing after the cruise if they (or spouse) have any concerns. So testing clearly isn't an issue.

Pure speculation since we don't have the numbers, however unlike anywhere else, vaccinations and testing are part of cruising and staff are masked and tested regularly. Anywhere else there are too many covid deaths daily, compared with approximately 0 on cruise ships. Cruise ships are required by law to report all illnesses to the CDC who does occasionally release numbers, but not ship specific numbers for covid.

No, and it seems many people don't test until after the cruise, so it is likely there are a lot more cases on ships than even the cruise lines know about.

That is my understanding, too.

Besides changes for daylight savings time, repositioning cruises to a different time zone change times - e.g. when a ship moves from Galveston to Florida or the other way. But that isn't an exhaustive list.

There will be exceptions, but Carnival is number one. Some of remember cruising before there were all the distractions and diversions and haven't forgotten why we love cruising in the first place.

All that bubbly and we haven't once heard you belch. Impressive!

So you wouldn't dump hubby for a newer model, I'm thinking.

I don't see cheap, cheap prices. What I do see is no single supplement. Two can each have a cabin for the same price.

Red Stripe is always good, mon.

Not yet. Soon.

I've been on Carnival Caribbean cruises where the ship time changed, and not just for daylight savings.

Not at all. ORANGE is the new YELLOW. It means enough covid on all ships for the CDC to investigate. ^ The “Orange” and “Yellow” ship colors were reversed for the COVID-19 program to go in a more logical color order.

Neither one in the US for some time. 0.3% MINIMUM. and doncha know Orange is the new Yellow? CDC flipped the colors. ^ The “Orange” and “Yellow” ship colors were reversed for the COVID-19 program to go in a more logical color order.

What's confusing? US cruises still require covid testing or an excused absence. That hasn't changed. No covid testing still doesn't equal no covid cases. That hasn't changed.

Conspiracy theorists?

You can see much progress since this March photo

Don't even think about ordering iced tea in the UK. 🙃