Brad1972

Now freedom is moving at 17 knots.  That’s a bit difficult to do with 1 engine.  Must have gotten the other engine going again.

It looks like freedom is moving under its own power. Just real slowly probably using only 1 engine.  I don’t see any tugs on the map next to her on marine traffic dot com. Freedom left maybe 40 some minutes after conquest did.

Here’s a question.  Usually when a ship is in port the fun shops have to be closed and casino is closed unless the port allows casino and gambling.  I know grand Turk is duty free port  but just wondered if the casino and fun shop would be allowed to open in grand Turk? Anyone know?

Webcam in grand Turk still shows Mardi Gras there with freedom.  Freedom I see lots of lights on like normal. 

Depends on when conquest gets into Port Canaveral Monday morning.  If it’s weee early in the morning because they sailed at a pretty good speed they could disembark passengers early Monday morning get back under way and be in Miami by afternoon.  It’s what 240-250ish miles from port Canaveral to port of Miami?  Ships cruise at  ~22 knots (25mph) that’s about 9 to 10 hours back to Miami.  Hmmm. Yaaa. Would be cutting it close with turn around time, restocking the ship with food fuel and other supplies.

anyone know about Carnival Freedoms wifi speeds since the major overhaul a couple years back?  We will be on her in April.  Just wondering how her speeds are.

Question about the at home tests like the Abbott binaxNOW test.  We are sailing in April so things maybe different again by then but we are flying in 3 days before we board our ship and will have to have a test done while in Miami there is a CVS pharmacy right across the street from our hotel but like others have said we need a backup just in case labs are overwhelmed and can’t guarantee test results in time or let alone get an appointment to test when we get there. 
when we do the at home test and get our results do we have to print out a test result from an email or what?  Kinda hard to print something when we have no printer.  Not sure the hotel will allow us to print something out on their printers.  

10 hours ago, maryandmarge said:

One of the new things listed is Magic is cancelled from March 13th - May 3rd.    We were originally booked on the Breeze for 8 days starting March 27th and a couple weeks ago we got switched over to the Magic out of Miami.     Looks like it has been cancelled now.    

They cancelled Magic’s transatlantic cruises starting from Miami to and around European cruises during that time to leave it in Miami to take over the cruises that the Breeze was to do out of Fort Lauderdale.  I was booked on Breeze out of Fort Lauderdale April 24th 2021 they moved us to Magic out of Miami with same dates, itinerary and cabin room number.  I just looked and our cruise for April 24th is still in my booked cruises.  I even tried a mock booking and it let me.  Prices sure are higher than what I paid.

Had an April 25th 2020 cruise canceled right at the end of March.  I rebooked same cruise for time time next year.  All my cruise credit was transferred over within 3 days.  I received refunds on my booked shore excursions on gift cards cause I used gift cards to book them, got those within 2 months.  Still waiting on refund for WiFi package I also purchased with gift cards.  Don’t know what number to call and ask about it or what email to inquire about it though.  Not that I could probably get through to anyone anyway as busy as the lines are from what it sounds like.  Not just going to forget it and take my losses that WiFi package for wife and I was almost $200.  I’m over 100 days still waiting for our the last of our refund

I got the same letter for our cruise out of Fort Lauderdale on Breeze in April 24th 2021 it’s been moved to port of Miami and will now be on the Magic with same itinerary.  Basically all it said for the minor inconvenience of having to change ships on us Carnival will add $200 OBC tou our accounts. Didn’t say anything in there that it was not applicable for those who have already rebooked from a previously canceled cruise by carnival since March 2020.  So ya,  it sounds like we will have $800 OBC.  We also got in on the deal when they did a promo code of 20% off Cheers drink package online that is already 10% off of in person price on board.  So all of our drinks are taken care of and will have $800 free OBC?   Ya, no problem, change ships with a sister ship and move us to a better port.  I like Port of Miami better.  Better choice of hotels by the port and more things to do along Biscayne Blvd and Bayside Market place right across the street from the usual hotel we stay at.

On 6/19/2020 at 6:10 AM, rnff2 said:

FTTF for the Breeze is available today.  I was just able to purchase for my March 2021 cruise! 😊

I’ve been checking every day and usually multiple times a day for weeks now since this thread started for our April sailing on the Breeze and it still shows not available.  Seems like every ship and sailing it’s been released except late April Breeze sailings.    Right now we’re waitlisted for 6 pm dinner seating and our PVP said 8 pm dinner seating it will be the same.  Only option we have is YTD.  I don’t like YTD cause we never get the same server or table.  There is 6 people in our group again and last time we tried YTD they tried each night to seat us separated cause they didn’t have a table available to seat 6.  Kept pushing to seat us with other passengers instead of with our own group.

Still no FTTF for our April 24th sailing on Breeze

Got our gift card refunds today by FedEx for our cancelled shore excursions that was canceled by carnival for our April 25th 2020 cruise.  Our cruise credit we already had all of it applied to our rebooked cruise the day after Carnival announced on March 30th the extended pause in cruising.  We did not get our refund for the WiFi package yet though and we paid for that with a carnival gift card also.  Don’t know if those orders get processed differently or by a different department?  And still waiting for our credit for faster to the fun to be applied to our credit card also.

Today would be the day we would be debarkation Carnival Magic in Fort Lauderdale from our 8 day eastern Caribbean cruise.    We are rebooked for next April 2021 on Breeze for same cruise out of Fort Lauderdale for 8 days, same itinerary.  

6 hours ago, grandmarnnurse said:

I’ll tell you why you don’t owe a balance. What Carnival did was use some of your refunds to pay off your balance. That is what they did for my cruise. After transferring all FCC from 2 cruises to a 14 day Journey cruise for January, I had a $914 balance owed on cruise. A few days later, I got an emailed receipt from Carnival showing a zero balance. I called my PVP and asked why? She said that Carnival used $914 of my $1600 refunds to pay off balance, and they’d refund the remaining $707 in about 90 days. 

That’s the thing though is one couple in our group had no refunds from shore excursions or other online purchases due because they made no extra purchases and their cruise balance shows paid in full.  It shows in all of our cruise bookings and orders that we paid the same amount for the newly rebooked cruise as we did for the cancelled one to the penny.

My April 25th cruise was canceled on March 30th and we had our PVP rebook our cruise 1 year later for same time next April.  Within 6 days all of our FCC was transferred to the new booking.  The new booking was about $190 more then the canceled one but he did something to make it all come out even and we didnt owe anything extra.   He said our extras like shore excursions, Wifi packages, FTTF and such would be refunded back on to original form of payment.  We used Carnival gift cards for all that and we keep checking the balances like this morning and still hasnt gone back on them yet.  

1 minute ago, LaRue1975 said:

Go back a page in this thread, Saint Greg explains how to do it. I tried to add his quote but couldn’t. 

I got it.  Ya I found his post on going through already booked then organizer access and so on.  We got it for $784.66 total with gratuities for a 8 day cruise we’re as before it was $980 total.  Also we used Carnival gift cards that we got at 10% off to purchase it for even more savings.  The $600 OBC we get for rebooking from our cancelled cruise we are basically only paying $180something out of pocket for Cheers.

I have a booking for next April  a cancelled cruise this April and we were looking at using the $600 OBC they were giving us to help us buy the Cheers package for our cruise in April 2021.  But I go to my cruise manager and add cheers to my cart and it still shows original price of $51.xx a day.  I didn’t get the email either and looked through my junk mail and didn’t see it.  Wish I would’ve gotten it cause I would have definitely purchased it now.  Is there a promo code? Or just a add discount to cart by clicking here thing?

those that got the email have you purchased cheers before on previous cruises?

1 hour ago, Cyn874 said:

Just an update on this in case anyone else is tracking this against their own booking- the $964 dropped off my booking today and I now have a $0 balance, and my $600 OBC is now showing on my booking.

same with ours.  7 days and our new booking showed paid in full, gratuities, taxes, fees and all.  And showed in the cruise documents that we had a $600 OBC.  We actually thought we would have a small balance left because the new booking showed it was about $184 more then the cancelled one.  And this is why I love our PVP cause he fiddled the numbers and made it come out even and paid in full, didn’t pay an extra dime.  
 

On 4/5/2020 at 1:36 PM, Brad1972 said:

Our PVP said all the funds from our canceled cruise could take a week or more to be transferred to the new booking.  Give it a few days and call or email them and ask for an update.  

Our PVP said all the funds from our canceled cruise could take a week or more to be transferred to the new booking.  Give it a few days and call or email them and ask for an update.  

15 hours ago, Organized Chaos said:

 

Everyone had high hopes when they announced they'd be upgrading the fleet, but you're right, it doesn't feel like it amounted to much. There was talk around the forum that it was happening ship by ship, but you can't really tell these days. We were on the Glory in 2018 and the internet was pretty much unusable the entire time, day or night. It was pretty good last month on Valor, but didn't seem "upgraded" to me. Part of the problem is access points. The Vista class ships and the refitted ships now have many more access points than older ships. That makes a big difference. It allows for much better coverage and spreads out wifi connections more, which helps keep any one access point from getting too overloaded. But adding them to older ships isn't easy. It requires a lot of work to be done to run new wires. That's why we're seeing it happen to these refurbished ships, because they're in dry dock and torn apart anyway.

 We were on Glory in April of 2018 also.  Bought the value WiFi plan and it was like you said un-usable. Told guest services if WiFi isn’t even usable then we want our money back. Instead they upgraded us to premium WiFi for free and it was just as bad. Back to guest services and they refund our money but let us keep using the premium plan, not that we could use it though.  The very first dial up internet speeds back in the early 90s were faster then Glory’s WiFi.    2 years prior to Glory we were on Splendor and had the value plan and it was pretty quick.  We even made Facebook messenger video calls with no issues.  I would upload dozens of pictures and videos each day to Facebook for our friends and family to see with no problems.  I uploaded 32 pictures one evening in 4-1/2 minutes.  
We’re going to be on Magic in April and I hope their WiFi isn’t like Glory’s.

I wonder what ever happened to this supposed WiFi upgrade Carnival said they were going to do on all ships by the end of the summer in 2018.  Cause by the sounds of it a lot of people have mentioned it is still as slow as it’s been for the past few years. No noticeable speed increase has been noticed if they really did upgrade the other ships.

https://cruisefever.net/carnival-cruise-line-rolling-faster-internet-every-cruise-ship-fleet/

6 minutes ago, Organized Chaos said:

I find it hard to believe it would work on the Social plan. I'd bet that it doesn't.

 

We were on Valor last month. I had the Value plan and had Wifi Calling turned on. I did receive a call and was able to take it, BUT...it may not have been over wifi, I'm not sure. I never turn on Airplane Mode right away when we're still docked. I was connected to the ship's wifi, but when I got the call, I was on deck 4 by the glass elevators. Since I was near the atrium and it goes all the way up to the glass ceiling, I guess there was a chance I was still getting cell signal and was talking over my cellular network instead of Wifi Calling. I didn't look to see if I had cell signal. I do know that regular SMS texting works using Wifi Calling on the Value plan.

The ship is supposed to have their cell tower turned off while in any port.  So your call either came from either local cell tower at the port or it came through the ships wifi signal as a wifi call.

it does not work on the social plan.  you have to have the value plan or the premium plan to make Wifi calls.

10 minutes ago, ummgood said:

I was told midnight Eastern Time. 

Thank you.  Right after I posted this I did one more search with a different word combination and found a thread from last June an the very same subject and everyone said it becomes available at midnight.  I let my parents know.