JimmyTheSaint

The Briksdal Glacier has troll cars ( they're like golf buggies ) that take people from the entrance up to about 200 metres from the glacier. Very useful for people who couldn't do the 40 minutes walk up the hill. Sorry I don't know the cost of these.

Ha Ha Ha, well done my American friend, a perfect demonstration of how not to make tea

Is that now a Carnival upsell tactic? Offer rubbish tea and coffee so they can upsell. We always travel with our own tea bags as Americans and Europeans can't make tea.

We just came off Carnival Pride yesterday after finishing a cruise to the Norwegian Fjords. Hopefully you get better weather than we did. We prefer to organise our own excursions so we didn't book any through Carnival. Skjolden is very small, the sheep in the field by the dock seemed to be the most popular sight. Olden, close to Briksdal Glacier which can be reached on public bus, sightseeing bus and numerous excursions companies all offereing tours at the dock Alesund, very interesting town, great viewpoint up 418 steps, easily reached from the dock Bergen, large town, funicular railway and scenic hikes, markets, historic sights, all within 5-10 walks from the ship Molde, very neat small town, hikes in the hills above,

Because they use Lipton tea bags which produce a drink that looks like dishwater, probably tastes like dishwater. I've never tasted dishwater but I did try Carnival afternoon tea with the fancy wooden box full of Lipton's tea and it's what I imagine dishwater tastes like. Proper British tea tastes nothing like that, looks nothing like that. Luckily for some fellow Brits that we met onboard we had a good supply with us and handed them out. The look of relief and gratification from them was very rewarding.

Did you try their tea? Absolute muck, undrinkable. Their coffee isn't much better.

We were in group 21 for Disembarkation, the last numbered group. We were off the ship by about 07:30. Disembarkation started before 06:00 for those doing self disembarkation. The process seemed very well organised and was quick. There were a lot of porters available if required and there were distinct areas for those using taxis, coaches, private transfers, etc.

I've just finished a cruise on Carnival Pride and one of the things I really missed was not having the Mongolian Wok. If I had the authority to do so I would shut down the Bonsai Sushi place on Pride and turn it in to JiJi's and then it could be used as Mongolian Wok at lunch time. Two benefits for Carnival; one, more revenue from that floorspace, there was never more than one or two people in Bonsai and I'm willing to bet they were using OBC, JiJi's is the best $ restaurant Carnival have and is always busy two, by having a Mongolian Wok for lunchtime they can close Chopsticks in the Lido Buffet and use the space for something new like Shaq's Big Chicken.

Thank you, very useful information. You've saved me and the Mrs about £40 as we were going to use in person tests at our local airport. Such a shame that a multi billion dollar company couldn't / didn't provide that information to all customers but had to rely on customers contacting one of their employees via Facebook. Very unsatisfactory situation.