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3 hours ago, CruiseAdict218 said:

Where was that mentioned? Haven’t seen that anywhere. 

Check my reply below. 

5 hours ago, CarnivalShips480 said:

Where did you see that?

Go on Carnival.com and then click on “Explore” then click on “Our Ships’. Next select The Venezia and you can also click on ViSta. It has the cruise ships comparisons. When you click on the outdoor options it shows that vista already has the skyride but for Venezia it says “Coming Soon”. It also says Coming soon for Waterworks. 

Still nothing. On another note… they will be adding skyride to the Venezia. I guess they want it to have the same things that are on the Vista class ships. 

On 11/20/2022 at 12:38 PM, JOHN 57 said:

at last our ship arrived in Miami

Which ship?

13 minutes ago, shof515 said:

i got a feeling that will wait after the holidays to assign the rooms so that we can not take advantage to any cyber monday or whatever the promo is called to get reduced pricing. not fun

I got my rooms booked a while ago at 40% off. I just checked the prices and it was cheaper than the cyber deal

1 hour ago, shof515 said:

Happy cyber monday

 

i noticed there is a cyber monday sale on the website and one of my cruises went down in price. unfortunately my cabin for that cruise is still TBA and i dont know my cabin category yet. for those who had a TBA cabin and called carnival. do they assign you a cabin on the spot?

 

 

They say they can't do anything until we are assigned.

14 hours ago, Purvis1231 said:

We just returned on 11/22. The drill was not digital- it was basically non-excitant. We had to meet a staff member to let him scan our cards and that was it. There is a video on the Hub app but we did not have to watch it. I hope first time cruisers got a better drill. 

Ok. I hope the they don’t come back with the old muster. I know they have returned to it on some other cruise line including Disney. 

On 11/24/2022 at 1:59 PM, Purvis1231 said:

Embarkation: We had the 10: 00 check in time. We dropped our bags off at 8:45 and then waited until about 9:15 for the parking garage to open. After parking we proceeded to the door of the port. We waited with others outside until about 9:30 when they allowed those with the 10:00 check to enter the building and begin the check in. We had passports and completed the check in within a few minutes then headed to security. We had a carry on with can drinks and medical supplies. Last time the opened this to hand check it but this time we breezed through the x-rays and were sent to the waiting area. While waiting we brought some lanyards and snacks. Boarding began around 10:45, we did not have any special boarding but were on the ship shortly before 11:00.

 

Cabin: We had a standard ocean view cabin on deck 2-midships. It was clean and ready at 1:30 with our luggage by the door. The room steward did a good job cleaning and keeping the ice bucket full, but we had to ask him to provide a sharps container although we had requested this in advance. We had to ask him to replenish the paper products and soap and shampoo within a few days of the cruise and we had to get our own drinking glasses. Overall, we enjoyed the location of our cabin, but it was very noisy from the stabilizers due to heavy seas at time. One night it was rocking so bad, we were in the cabin but 7:00 and only left out to get some pizza. The weather was disappointing during the cruise but we know that it out of anyone’s control.

Entertainment: We enjoyed the music and trivia in the atrium although I was disappointed, they did not give out any ships on a stick (I have at least one from every Carnival cruise I have sailed.)  I did get a couple of medals.  The main stage shows were mainly music without any lights, dancing, or other aspects we were expecting.  We did not attend the comedy shows.

 

Food: We are not hard to please so we found a lot of food we enjoyed but skipped the steakhouse, BBQ, and seafood shack. To us Guy’s Burgers are ok but after embarkation day, we did not go back. We did miss the bacon and mushrooms from the toppings bar. Most days we ate breakfast in the MDR, the food was good but the service was lacking in some respects compare to what we were used to in the pre-pandemic world.  Things like varieties of pastries, bread, butter, jelly, and drink refills were not readily available as they were in the past. I know some of this is to reduce food waste but when I asked for a small glass of juice they served a tall glass.  Unfortunately, many people did not understand about checking in for meals on the app so there was a large crowd waiting especial for the seaday brunch. The Your Time Diner service in the MDR was better, we had the same excellent head waiter each time.  He knew our names and drink preference. It seemed people understood the online check in better for diner so there were few people standing around waiting unlike in the morning.  The food was good but little was rememberable. We did eat one night in the buffet and found most of the foods from the MDR were on the buffet but overall, we preferred to table service in the MDR.

 

Ports: Our ports were Cozumel and Progreso. We enjoy these ports and have been to them many times so with a 75% chance of rain, we did not book any excursions. Thankfully, the rain held off at the ports, so we went in to do a little shopping and to look around. We almost booked a last-minute excursion but decided to enjoy ship with fewer people on board. My wife and daughter did do spa treatments on the Cozumel port day since they had a $50 discount card.

 

Embarkation went smoothly especially since we had passports and they used facial recognition but we were selected for a physical passport check but that took just a few minutes.  There were a few bottlenecks leaving the ship such as the waiting for the elevators to the parking garage.  It took us about an hour to leave the ship when called to get to our car.

 

General: There were a lot of kids on board some people complained they were too rowdy but personally we did not see anything unusual for a pre-holiday cruise, but we did see some loud and somewhat obnoxious adults. My teenage daughter had to have the internet, so she purchased the middle plan. It worked fine for her to snap at her friends, but other things did not work that well.

What date was the cruise?

Did you guys do the digital Muster?

Head to deck 7 and keep going forward. Go through the doors and it will lead to the secret deck. This is were you can get nice photos especially if the ship is heading towards sunset.

Even if we believe it changes nothing we are just venting and communicating amongst each other. 

8 minutes ago, cruizinisthebest said:

And you saying THIS changes nothing. So what's your point? Let people vent. 

#Facts

18 minutes ago, cruizinisthebest said:

This kind of email (just received) serves zero purpose. 

 

I replied to that email letting them know it is unacceptable. I let them know that if I am not assigned a similar room I will be extremely angry. 

Its strange that they are assigning rooms to the later bookings first. I assume that is because there are more rooms available. Still does not make sense. It is going to be way more difficult to get what we want the longer they keep dragging this thing out while people are still booking this ship.

My PVP told me she got two cabins next to each other like we had picked but as soon as she was about to call me the system unassign the rooms so she have to wait until the department that does the assignment goes in and give me a room.

Still no assignments for me. 
 

I was told that the assignments should be set by tomorrow. 🤞🏿 

You’re getting married on the ship?

1. Ok so she kept saying it will be assigned but they don't have a date so I should be patient. I told her I have been impatiently waiting for more than a week now while they are still accepting bookings. I also informed her that we received an email with a specific deadline that the cabins would have been assigned. I asked her transfer me to the department that does the assignments. She claimed they don't heave a department for that. I replied telling her that that statement is not correct because there must be someone reassigning the cabins manually. Eventually she confessed that there is a department that does that but they have been advised not to transfer calls there and tell the customers to wait patiently.

My PVP is not answering her phone. I guess she know why i am calling her.

I am on the phone with them right now and being transferred a couple times. Now this person say she is going to speak with her supervisor. I told them how I strategically book my rooms and if I don't get assigned to comparable rooms I am switching to another cruise line that is doing a Black Friday sale at the same time for a cheaper price. (I am not switching though unless I get two completely different rooms that are downgrades from what I booked). I want to experience the Venezia

1 hour ago, serene56 said:

connecting rooms- the cabins with the door inside to get to the other cabin-  the dividers dont open because the divider will block the cabin door        i have connecting cove balcony on the Magic.   I just hope to have the connection with the rebook    Some one on face book said she had connecting and they have her and her husband on one deck forward  and kids are on another deck all the way aft.   This is the only person I read that got assigned     Everyone else seems to be TBA still 

 

Not connecting rooms. I book with connecting cabins meaning they are side by side rooms and the balcony dividers can be opened to make a big balcony. i did this on the Magic before. I realize that the connecting rooms (ones with the doors in the middle) do not usually have connecting balconies. I prefer to have the option of a large balcony which we can use to get to the other room that to have a door between rooms with balconies that cannot be opened up.

Here is a link to look at while you impatiently wait.

https://cruisespotlight.com/ship/carnival/venezia/

Still TBA 😡😡

1 hour ago, JOHN 57 said:

take a look at these

www.carnivalcruiselines.de/en/ships/carnival/venezia

www.cruisespotlight.com/ship/carnival/venezia

The first one doesn't work but the second one does. Thanks for the info

23 hours ago, JOHN 57 said:

Hello Jamericann, this is what I know, from Carnival News.  Remake will include Carnival waterworks, Fahrenheit 555 Steakhouse, Bonus Sushi, Seafood Shack, Cloud 9 Saloon and Spa, Serenity Adult Only Retreat.

She sails from Baracelona, Spain for 15 on Transatlantic and arrives in New York on 13 June, then begins here New York trips.

What will see keep, that is an unknown.

They will also add a burger joint. This is according to a video that John Heald posted.

Impatiently waiting to get my cabins reassigned. I hope to still be on deck 7 but if I get deck 8 that's fine as well. My major concern is that I will not get side by side connecting balconies as I booked. That was my priority because I've done it on the magic before and we were able to have one large balconies for 2 rooms.

30 minutes ago, JOHN 57 said:

I also watched a few You Tube videos, and it is amazing.  A very beautiful ship.  Question is what will be kept and changed.  What videos did you watch?

John Heald's video and a few others. Most were not in English

I'll be on it before you. Mine is in 242 days.