Eli_6

I would LOVE this! I hope it happens.

I bought more Carnival. I am 42. I have a long way off to retirement to ride this out. Also bought Amazon and TSLA. I sold a bunch of TLSA when it was at $1100-1200 (before the split) and then sold some more (after the split) at $310. Since it is down to $150 now, I am buying up some more to replace what I previously sold and maybe get some more. TSLA is the lowest it has been since Covid...I am sure, in part, to Elon Musk and his ridiculous antics. Fortunately, I sold all my Twitter a long time ago before Elon took over.

"Just in case" my May 28th pride sailing cancels, I have been putting the cabins I want on on the Venezia on a 48 hours hold every couple of days. (I don't want to risk the $800 deposit to deposit them.) I asked my TA to do the free hold once, but I feel bad doing it over and over again. Problem is, the inside room I want that is across the hall from the Vista balcony I want, doesn't show up on the Carnival website because the website just shows the first ten or so inside rooms available on that deck in the aft...and there are more than 10 cabins available. So, I can't put it on hold on my own. Is there anyway to get the other inside cabins to show up on the website?

Anyone else who wrote to carnival to ask about the May 28th sailing (or other sailings no longer on the website) hear anything back? I have NOT. I emailed guest services and asked on John's page. No response.

That seems ridiculous. I thought this was going to be for a balcony for 4 people. I booked a 4 day, 4 person balcony for a holiday weekend for 1600 and thought I was being screwed. I only booked it because it will require my children to miss zero school and my husband to only miss 1 day of work so that by itself is worth a lot.

😂🤣

All my cruises have been good since the restart except for my Pride Europe sailing--and it was the one I paid the most for! The financial channels are predicting we will go into a recession towards the first of this upcoming year and today stocks were down significantly and have been for the last three days...some of them (like tech) the lowest they have been since Covid shut downs. One of the first things people are going to cut in a recession is discretionary spending on vacations. Increasing the prices is not going to help the majority of carnival's clientele (who are likely the middle class or even lower middle class) cruise more frequently during a recession.

100 percent agree. Bedt layout, worst condition of any carnival ship I have been on.

Your post prompted me to try this when Venezia Terrazza cabins didn't show up and, sure enough, they showed up when I used an icognito browser!

And now I just did what Tom and Cheryl did and tried an incognito browser and the cabins were there! What???

I have had that happen not only with cabins, but even with date availability! I often try searching in my incognito browser if I am really interested in a date.

All the talk about the Venezia got me interested in booking her. I was looking at a couple of the sailings to the Northwest in September, but there are no Terrazza cabins (balcony or cabana or Vista or premium) listed for those sailings on the website other than just the inside ones. I thought it might even be a glitch in the computer so I checked again this morning and it was the same situation. Are they already sold out? This seems unlikely. Do you think that Carnival has taken them off until the website until they come up with a prize they like for this "specialty" class? Why then leave the inside rooms?

I just recalled there was one exception, but that was when I cruised with my kids last Christmas and they had just started allowing vaccinated kids and we had to stand in the "kid" line to make sure they were vaccinated. It didn't matter if you were a suite, platinum, diamond, etc., if you had a kid you were stuck standing in the long *ss "kid" line waiting behind all the people who didn't have the proper documentation on their kids or were trying to get their unvaxed kids on board without an exemption or had an exemption and had to show their documentation. But that shouldn't apply now.

I asked John Heald shortly after the restart if the Suite guests had to stick to their boarding time (because I had booked a last minute suite and had a late boarding time) and he said that suite guests could arrive at any time and board at any time and did not have to arrive within their allocated appointment window. That has been my experience post-covid at Galveston, Pt Can., Dover, and Seattle. Before Covid, FTTF was the same way but just they boarded after Suites, Platinum, Diamond...but is all in quick succession. Not sure now since it just came back.

I LOVE the Havana area on the Vista class ships! My favorite. I would recommend either the corner Vista balcony or one of the middle aft balconies. The ones closer to the edge are fine, but the ones on the end are slightly longer. If there is a major price difference, go for the aft facing balcony. The balcony on the Vista corner room is nice, but the room is actually a little bit of an odd lay out so I actually like the room on one of the middle 4 balcony rooms better. The premium Havana balconies are not worth the up charge from a regular aft facing balcony.

On my Europe cruise this summer, there were so many platinum and diamonds that the "special" line was often longer than the normal line. Oddly enough, a couple of times people were continuing to stand in it even when there was a much shorter line in the regular line. 🤔 Couldn't figure that one out at all.

I book FTTF when sailing out of Galveston to get off the ship sooner. It *sometimes* saves a day of taking off work or school. Of course, if the boat is delayed getting into port, it doesn't matter.

Interesting about the TA's putting a large number of rooms on hold. I did not know that, but it makes sense. Also makes sense as to how a ship can show as sold out on the Carnival website but then there be offerings through travel agency websites. I feel like I learn so much just by lurking around on these boards...

Me, too! And I am the odd man out in that I love the Vista class because of the Havana area. I am super pissed Galveston is losing the Vista! I wish they would take the Dream or the Breeze instead and let us keep the Vista.

Splendor IS the Splendor class. 😂

Completely agree with you on Loft 19. The pool/hot tub was more like a wading pool/kiddie pool. Did you feel like the Mardi Gras was super busy? We went when it was at partial capacity.

I was in the Starboard Vista Suite on Deck 4 with the adjoining aft balcony room. I would hope they would have fixed the shower by now since that was months ago... I actually loved the location of that room and the layout other than the shower. Especially with the adjoining room. When you combined the Vista suite with the adjoining room, you basically had a little apartment with the living room in the middle with two bedrooms on either side. The balcony is huge and is fully covered. I think most of the other Vista balconies are not fully covered (maybe the one under the lido deck is, not sure), but this one is and it is closest to the water. When the ship was in her prime, it was probably the best room on the boat! The shower wasn't that big of a deal because we just used our son's shower. I got tired of calling the repair people because they never showed up when you called. It might be 20 minutes later, or it might be 5 hours later when you are needing to be in the bathroom to get ready for dinner, or it might be the next day when you are taking a nap and don't want to be disturbed. So, I eventually just stopped calling them even though it still was broke and let the shower be broken and used the shower in the adjoining room. I told guest services about it before I left, though, so the next person would (hopefully) have a shower.

I was on Pride in July and it (especially some of the cabins) need TLC. Our suite looked like it had been more recently updated, but my son's balcony room looked its age.

I am inclined to still go to Europe because we already made plans for my husband to get off. I like the Venezia TA sailing so I will probably do that (if we can get good rooms still) or an MSC sailing out of Barcelona if this cruise cancels. I feel more confident in it NOT canceling after learning that those third party port websites just go off the Carnival website and that we ARE on the Gibraltar port website.

Well, my husband is the sole owner so the business will pay for him to have coverage to go on a once-a-year vacation because otherwise he will have unhappy children, an unhappy wife, and an unhappy life. And then the "business" will make less money because he will not be seeing patients because he will be spending that time taking care of his children, his house, and all of his business/legal affairs when his wife goes on vacation alone! I don't think you and I will ever see eye-to-eye on insurance. For over a decade before I had two kids in two years, I both sued and represented insurance companies. In my experience, the money spent on a policy like what you are talking about combined with the trouble of getting the insurance to actually pay in the event of something going wrong is NOT worth it. Insurance companies are in the business of not paying. That's how they make money. The policies are structured to benefit them and not the insured. I carry insurance on things that would cause me financial ruin should a covered event occur (like loss of my home, health insurance, medical malpractice, etc.) and it be worth it to fight them to get them to pay. (Had it happen with Hurricane Harvey and had to fight them for 9 months for a completely legitimate claim.) In my case, I apparently booked refundable airline tickets. I don't recall doing this, but I called British Airways and they said I will be refunded minus a small fee if I cancel...I probably did that because Carnival already has done this to me multiple times before including the canceled Mardi Gras TA, canceled Vista in summer 2019 (with only 2 weeks notice), and multiple canceled Europe cruises in 2020 and 2021. However, I completely "get" people not booking refundable airline tickets when you are talking about tickets as expensive as they are to Europe. It doesn't mean they are cheap. The difference between a refundable vs non-refundable ticket is sometimes double the cost. For some people, that may be the difference between them being able to afford a once-in-a-lifetime Europe vacation and not affording one at all. Also, might I add, that Carnival does provide for some coverage for cancelled flights when they cancel a cruise. I think everyone on this thread understands that things happen...like Covid or when a ship breaks down. All I want or expect is for Carnival to tell us when they plan on canceling a cruise as soon as they know so I can make alternative arrangements. I don't expect them to pay for anything. Just to tell me when they know. In the past, they haven't done that. In the past they have in fact actively said "Oh no, the cruise is going forward" even when they pretty much undoubtedly knew that it wasn't in order to get those 90 day final payments...i.e. when Carnival didn't cancel Europe 2021 even after RCCL, NCL and other cruise lines had canceled and the writing was on the wall. Hopefully, that isn't what they are doing with May 28th. I have more faith it is not what they are doing after what BlerkOne pointed out.