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1 hour ago, DallasGuy75219 said:

It depends on demand for the particular sailing. Early assigned, YTD, or (least likely) late assigned could waitlisted or even closed to more waitists depending on how many people are already confirmed.

We always do assigned dining but my family decided that they want to do MTD next cruise because they don't want to feel rushed if they are not on time (which my wife is NEVER on time).

I didn't know there was a waitlist for YTD. I have an 8:15 that I want to change to YTD. I guess I need to do it sooner than later.

216 days of longggg wait. Haven't cruise since December 2019.

13 hours ago, Cherries Jubilee said:

Have you seen any reviews of the show from Celebration?

I’ve seen reviews of the ship itself and they like the shows. Main complaint about celebration is the elevators. 

I like changes so this is awesome. Venezia will be the second ship after celebration to have the live painting show. 

When will the ship go to dry dock?

1 hour ago, detroitavant said:

Still no cabin assignment for us.

What kind of cabin were you assigned to? The day before I got mine they say they were working on suites and then balcony. Balconies and suites should be done from a few das ago.

Easy solution. Give them the kid so they get escorted to the faster line and you can use your priority boarding 

10 hours ago, phoneman69 said:

Are the cabin assignments you got back on 7? Six is right above a lot of activities and i don't know how the noise level will be. At least this dance is finally over for most of us. 

They are 6454 and 6458. one is above the Gondola lounge and the other is above room 5202  which is a terrazza room. I'm glad 6454 is not on the opposite side because it would be over a bar. 

9 hours ago, pyropoodle said:

got my room assignment as well.  they moved me allll the way to the front of the ship.  now, i have no idea why i have never booked forward cabins before, but i've always done midship or aft.   please tell me that i'm going to LOVE forward.  i am literally the 4th or 5th balcony from the bridge (or the grayed out bridge looking thing on deck 8 😎 at the front).  should i keep this or beg to be moved back?

Funny thing is I was forward and now they moved me to aft. Never done forward before so Magic would have been my first time.

8 hours ago, Jamman54 said:

Okay gang! We got our new cabin assignments for our B2B cruises 9/8 & 9/16 yesterday as well. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I was going to cancel these bookings anyway, as we have booked the 15 day journeys cruise leaving on 9/29. Nearly two years ago we booked the same bowling alley balcony (6499) for both legs of our B2B. On the Venezia, 6499 is the exact same cabin, in the same exact location as we had on the Magic, but on the Venezia it is considered a premium balcony cabin. Which brings me to my first complaint. Before booting us out of our cabin, how about a call giving us the option to pay the difference and keep the cabin. Nope, probably never gave it a thought.

 

Now, here is what they gave us. For the first cruise they gave us a regular balcony (6485) and it is a connecting cabin, something we never, ever book. I guess you can surmise that of course they didn't give us the same cabin for the second leg, even though the cruises were linked as B2B. They moved us from the back of the ship all the way up to the front of the ship into a regular balcony cabin (6243), which was also a connecting cabin. I guess most of the balcony cabins were pretty much gone if all that was left were connecting cabins.

 

Called my PVP this morning, and he was easily able to get both of my non - refundable deposits transferred to my new booking which really is all that I wanted at this point. He then officially cancelled the two bookings. He told me that at this point, he wouldn't have been able to book me in the same cabin for both legs anyway, and that's because they opened bookings up before everyone was reassigned. Carnival really screwed the pooch on this ship switch.

 

So for us it all ends well, but what if we were locked into those two dates like many people are. I would have been livid, and can't blame people for their frustration. I Hope it works out for all involved.

I’m glad you don’t have to go through that headache. They moved me from forward side by side connecting balconies (not connecting cabins) on deck 7 to two rooms far from each other on deck 6. They told me that in order to put me on deck 7 it would cost me more. Anyways, I was able to get booked in 6454 and 6458. Looking at the deck plan, 6454 is above the Gondola Lounge but 6458 is above 5202 a Terrazza room. I’ve never been above or below anything other than rooms before. That’s why I had booked 7 on Magic. Not sure what goes on in the Gondola Lounge late at nights. 

You can find your room location below:

https://www.cruisemapper.com/deckplans/Carnival-Venezia-1651/deck06-5915

I just realized this is Jim who I’ve been watching for years on YouTube:). I love your content. 

Just as I called and was looking on my booking to give them my booking number I noticed that they assigned my cabins.  It wasn't there an hour ago. These cabins are not side by side balconies as I previously booked. Also they moved me from the 7th floor to the sixth so now I'm not between all cabin floors anymore. The person I spoke with was able to find me side by side balconies even though we don't know if these open up to each other like I had booked.

5 minutes ago, cruizinisthebest said:

Call Carnival's toll free number and demand to speak to a supervisor. Unlike when dealing with a TA, you don't HAVE to go through your PVP. Who at this point is not doing their job to satisfying you the customer. Sail dates are all over the place. There is no excuse.

I'm doing that right now 

48 minutes ago, phoneman69 said:

My sailing is June 2023. Called my PVP and he got my room assignments even though 1 of my rooms was still TBA. I would call your PVP and tell them others are getting there rooms and you would like to speak to a supervisor if they don't handle it for you.  Again Make The Call !!

I did that a few times and she (claimed) she spoke with a supervisor and was told that I will just have to wait. I'm wondering if anyone from my particular cruise date was assigned as yet. The people who say they are assigned are all on a different cruise date.

58 minutes ago, shof515 said:

that rate is because of a group rate the ta has for that specific sailing. not every sailing has group rates from what i noticed

 

i am part of the magic-veneiza ship switch and i am still waiting for my cabin assignments. no one at carnival can help me

When is your sail date? I noticed that people who are in September got their assignments because Carnival seem to be working backwards.

Thanks for your replies. I think I'm going to find a TA next time.

Many of us have been waiting since November 14th for our new room assignment when our ship was changed from Magic to Venezia. I booked through a Carnival PVP and I called her a few times and she said there is nothing she can do to ensure I get my rooms assigned until the department that handles that take care of it. She found a couple rooms and tried to put me in them but the system automatically cancel them out because they notice from my VIFP number that I am already booked on this cruise. I noticed some people who booked through a TA were able to get theirs change through their TAs. I would have though PVPs would have more control than TAs. Can someone please let me know what's the pros and cons of booking therough TAs vs PVPs? 

14 minutes ago, cruizinisthebest said:

Finally got our room swap done earlier, but only because my TA called and spoke to a supervisor. Same room type we had only on the lido deck, which is fine. Don't understand why it was like pulling teeth getting it done. Glad that's over. I honestly don't think anyone will get anywhere unless they call and are persistent. Good luck if you're still waiting. 

I’m happy to hear that you got yours. At least that’s progress. I tried calling a few times but to no avail. 

1 hour ago, CruiseAdict218 said:

Venezia is not getting the Skyride, it shows a blue “X”, not “Coming Soon”. 

I could have sworn it said coming soon when I checked. lol. I guess I looked in the wrong row. At least the Waterworks is coming which my kids will enjoy.

7 minutes ago, kona_wahine said:

I’ve heard of the calls offering upgrades for a fee, never got one, but finally got an email offer for our next cruise. We booked a super cheap cruise that was interior first floor, couldn’t pass it up, and after final payment got an email offer that moved us to lido for $54. Took it quick! 

I hope it's at a quiet spot.

On 11/29/2022 at 3:48 PM, Bily said:

Good afternoon 

we have a ways to go yet but excited to cruise again 

Were you booked on the Magic or did you book the Venezia directly?

6 minutes ago, shof515 said:

i have a crazy theory that they reason why they are not assigning rooms is because they want everyone to be TBA so they can not submit any price drops, allows them to hold onto our money even longer before we submit for price reductions

That could be the case. Many people wanted to get on the Cyber deal but could not. My original bookings were cheaper than the cyber or Black Friday deals so I am not angry about missing it. 

On 11/29/2022 at 12:32 PM, hapytobehr said:

After sailing on  Carnival for over 17 years, I received my first upsell/upgrade call yesterday.

 

We are sailing NYE on the Celebration and had an inside cabin (because it was really really cheap) and for $150 pp we were offered a balcony.  YAY!!

 

I immediately said yes and made my DH very happy!

 

28 more days....but who's counting??  

I got the call on my last two cruises and got great offers that I could not resist. Last cruise I was finally going to try an interior cabin by the called and offered me upgrades for both for less than $100. I was like yes yes yes, I’ll take it. 

5 hours ago, detroitavant said:

Our TA told us that we're now a guarantee.  Problem is that there are half the number of suites on this ship as there were on magic.  For our situation, the new ship only has two cabins of this class that can hold four passengers on the new ship. There isn't anything that would be an upgrade on this ship from suite either.  I feel like Carnival is waiting to see if there are cancellations.  I'm afraid we're going to show up and get downgraded with just an apology.  No idea how a refund would look given that this is a reschedule from a covid cruise using a FCC.  TA at this point just keeps telling me it's guaranteed that we'll get our class, I just can't see how it's possible given the actual differences between the two ships.

That’s a wrong approach they are taking if they are hoping for cancellations because people are still booking. Will have less options as times go by  unless they are going to make suites unavailable for booking if anyone cancels.