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3 minutes ago, DrSea said:

Yea, I remember it being more towards $3 than 2 in summer 2018. IDK if they are doing flex prices like on RCL where it changes based on demand. 

 

Or maybe the waiter is pocketing the money (I kid)

Before the pandemic, I remember both $1.95 and $2.95 being mentioned.  I only remember one price being mentioned on 9/1/22.

4 hours ago, mz-s said:

 

$1.95 was the price last time I looked in I believe February. It may have changed since then.

I think the server on the Radiance said $2.95 on 9/1/22.

Afternoon Tea took place on the Radiance on 9/1/22.  It was a 4 day cruise.

I didn't see it happen, but I saw someone standing next to the claw machine unwrapping a $100 bundle on the Radiance on the first day(8/29/22) before sail away.

4 hours ago, wemjam said:

Only while in US port, it is very small, pennies really.  And Carnival has always done this.  Not just on booze, but if you get anything at a bar (soda, juice, etc).

This includes the free VIFP water.  I refused to pay tax on a free item, so I got it the next day.

12 minutes ago, groundloop said:

Yep, my wife won a $150 "photo package" only to find out that it was essentially a discount coupon for packages that cost $400 and up.  No thanks.  In my most humble opinion Carnival should be honest with their customers.

Was that the photo package they raffle off during the port talk?

5 hours ago, TerReuv said:

 

Don't take it.  Someone just posted on John Heald's FB page that they took a blender because it wasn't SPECIFICALLY mentioned on the prohibited list.  It got confiscated.  As John said, they can't list everything.  Do not try and take any household kitchen appliance!

At least some posts on his page aren't real.  I posted a response on Cruise Critic to something someone else posted.  A bit of the OP was combined with my comment and was then posted on his page not long after.  The post on his page was mostly my comment.  I didn't post on his page.  Someone made that post up to get a rise out of people.  It worked.

I stopped reading his response posts after that.  I only rarely go to his page now to see what he has been told he could say about any potential change/new policy that gets talked about here.

4 hours ago, Drazil65 said:

They called people up from the audience (not sure how they were chosen)

I remember each card is registered to a person when they buy it(by name and I think a unique code).   All they have to do is randomly choose a code and then look up who has that card so they can display that name on the screen.

7 hours ago, ray98 said:

Depends on the sailing.  We were in NOLA in March and experienced total chaos.  The first people did not board until 11am.

What was the chaos?

11:00am and later is what usually(if not always) happens.

When I have arrived before boarding starts, the earliest boarding start time I have ever experienced out of New Orleans is 11:15am.  This goes for both the Glory and Valor.

On 7/2/2022 at 5:52 AM, shof515 said:

on the magic last week, it was 6.50 for a milkshake

 

if you want to a milkshake, go there early. the few times i went after 8pm they were out of ice cream for the milkshakes

It was $4.50 on the Freedom on 1/22/22.  $2 is a 44.4% increase in at most five and a half months.

48 minutes ago, Itried4498 said:

 

It's always been portside.  The Fantasy-class ships use to be allowed to drift, so both sides would face the island at some point, but they are anchoring the Radiance.

I was in a port side oceanview cabin on the Inspiration in August 2016.  The port side never faced the port in Catalina.  I could tell this even when I wasn't on the ship.  I could see the ship from the shore and from the ziplining excursion.  Starboard was always facing the port.

My mom was born in the 50s in Iowa.  Her official birth certificate looks like a folded index card.  It has all of the required information on it.  If my mom were to request an additional copy today, it would be the more common 8.5x11 piece of paper.

She used her index card birth certificate successfully on 6/15/02 on a cruise out of Tampa.  She has used a passport on all of her subsequent cruises.

From my experience, the seasoning is different.  November and December 2021 on the Valor were blander than December 2019.  The Freedom in January 2022 was only a little bit better.

I have brought just a 22" Jansport Boost backpack with three major compartments and two minor compartments for a 4 day on the Triumph 2/9/17, 7 day on the Glory 12/1/19, 5 day on the Valor 12/30/19, 5 day on the Valor 11/29/21, and a 4 day on the Valor 12/23/21.  I took a 2 hour Greyhound to New Orleans and walked from Union Passenger Terminal(2/9/17), Canal at St Charles(12/1/19, 12/30/19), and St Charles at Poydras(11/29/21, 12/23/21).

On the 7 day cruise, with the aid of a compression packing cube and rolling my clothes, I was able to fit in the main compartment: 7 2X t-shirts, 1 pair of size 14 jeans, 1 pair of 2X yoga pants, 1 3-piece swimsuit(pants, zipper vest with built in support bra, and mesh back undershirt), 1 2X dressy top, 1 2X coordinating dressy cardigan, 1 pair of black jeans(?), socks, bras, and underwear, in addition to what I was wearing.  I only brought the ASICS sneakers I was wearing.

I was wearing a jacket with inside pockets.  I had my passport, S8, boarding pass, cash for onboard and in port, and metal card wallet in those pockets.

In the outer compartment, I had a cord organizer with all of the cords and wall plugs needed for my electronics, S7, portable battery charger(10,000 mAh), pen, mechanical pencil, lead, and extra hair elastics.  I had a Quirky extension cord in the bottom compartment.  I had a portable battery brick(26,800 mAh) and an iPad 2 in the main compartment.

In the middle compartment, I had two paddle hairbrushes, a comb, two aerosol cans of Veet shaving cream, solid deodorant stick, and a 1 quart heavy plastic bag with an actual zipper(not Ziploc) with travel size toiletries with space left over.  There was also a gallon size bag with a pill organizer, one pill bottle, extra contacts, contacts case, travel size contact solution, small bottle of Aleve, and small bottle of fexofenadine in that compartment.

I think the temperatures in Alaska and Victoria were in the 60s on the May 8, 2017 Legend sailing.  It was the first sailing of the season.  It was an 8 day, and we were in Ketchikan and Victoria for 12 hours each.  There was light rain on and off in Ketchikan.  You will likely go to Endicott Arm instead of Tracy Arm.  Tracy Arm is usually blocked in early May.

The casino shut down at 7:00pm on the last night since Victoria is so close to US waters.

Skee-Ball is $4.05 for four games.  I think one game is $1.55.  I don't know for sure about the one game price since I only buy the four pack of games.  I also don't know about any other games.  I only play Skee-Ball.

Call backs aren't new.  They just weren't regularly offered.  In the past, a person answered fairly quickly after Carnival called.  The problem that I had the first few times I was given the option was the phone number that the system relayed back was wrong.  The system was seeing the last four numbers incorrectly, so I had to manually enter my number each time.  Eventually they fixed their system so it read my number off correctly.

Oddly enough, a couple years later Entergy started doing the same thing.  The problem was resolved much quicker than with Carnival.

This is just a new way of handling call backs.

2 hours ago, ray985 said:

One article said how those prices are all dynamic, but that's not true for the Carnival brand; it's one set price that's clearly published. 

On my 8 day cruise in January, value internet was $10.80 per day.  All of my other cruises were/are the usual $10.20 per day.

My 11/29/21 5 day cruise on the Valor got flagged as a non-revenue cruise even though I paid for everything on my credit card.  I didn't use any kind of FCC.  I didn't even have OBC.  I booked the cruise through my PVP.  I booked Early Saver and later used price protection to get the balcony for the price of an oceanview rate.  My number of cruises did go up.

I needed those points to get to Platinum on my 1/15/22 cruise, so I called my previous PVP and she contacted whoever she needed to.  My cruise days and points were adjusted.  The cruise still shows as 0 days and points in the cruise history, but it was corrected where it mattered.

All of my other cruises have posted correctly.

Taxes, fees, and port expenses don't go to Carnival.  They go to the relevant government and port authorities.  So it wouldn't surprise me that only paying those expenses would get a cruise flagged as non-revenue.

1 hour ago, csm5986142 said:

 

Last month on Radiance we received fun play on our card.

Am I correct in assuming that you can't cash out fun play?

What do the Radiance and Glory do?

I refuse to use it.  I don't like having to download another app for every damn thing that comes along that is already done well in other ways.  Another app is also another place for my data to be hacked.

At the only hairy chest contest I ever watched, only the first of three rounds had anything to do with a hairy chest.  The winner had very little chest hair.  He was just the most enthusiastic.

7 minutes ago, DallasGuy75219 said:

Not anymore, at least on my last (first post-restart) cruise. The portion size looked to have literally been cut in half.

On the Valor in November, it had four cheeses, a piece of bread, and grapes.  On the Freedom in January, it had five cheeses, two pieces of bread, grapes, and the stewed(?) pears.

The Freedom was the same as in 2019.