wardamnweagle

Thanks for the replies. Definitely sad to hear about the animals at Maya and LFK. I booked us a private day tour with Victor Bodden Tours and will visit their sloth/monkey sanctuary and then head to West Bay Beach.

We (two couples) will be in Roatan on Valentine’s Day on the Carnival Glory. My last cruise that stopped here I was with my brother and we booked everything thru CCL (parents request as he had just turned 18). We really enjoyed Maya Key for the snorkeling. As we are both very strong swimmers the lack of a guide and oversight was a benefit, not a drawback since we don’t have to follow a rope and stay in a group. The snorkeling was fantastic and we spent several hours in the water. 
 

On this trip my buddy would be up for scuba, but would be satisfied with snorkeling and has said that if he’s the only one he’d prefer to stay with the group. I’m not interested in scuba. Our wives would like to sit on the beach, drink fruity sugary drinks, and get massages, but any animal encounters are also welcome. 
 

Are either of these available as a “walk up” in the port? We are scheduled to be in port 8-5 and would like to visit the shops there before venturing out (I still regularly wear the $5 shirt I got in port there and am amazed it’s still in good shape). 

While they may not be the biggest ruins, they feel plenty big when you’re up top looking down. 
 

No. Just once. Otherwise I’d be sitting on like 2400 OBC, lol. 

Nah. After rebooking cruises twice this year, we punted and pushed to February 2022. Will be spending Valentines Day on a ship, hopefully!

49 minutes ago, evandbob said:

Good to see that #9 is not licking his fingers like he used to do pre and post snap

I think they started spraying the balls with apple bitter, like you use to keep a dog from chewing furniture. So one lick and it makes his fingers taste bitter.

😂

Have been out of New Orleans twice, on the Conquest and the Dream. 
 

Miss this view down Canal Street. 
 

Contemplated selling Friday. Picked up 100 shares at 11 and 100 shares at 8. Really want to hold longer term, but it’s difficult to pass up quick cash. 

1 minute ago, Don Kehote said:

First: Thank you for not being ANOTHER refund poster.

 

Secondly, we had a riot at our Chef's Table experience.  It was certainly a must-do for us.  I don't know if we'll do it again, but I have absolutely no regrets for having gone the once.

I'm sure I’ll have plenty to post about in the coming months. I’m an interior cruiser who smuggles booze onboard, and now I’m in a Cloud 9 balcony with a drink package. 
 

I really want to go, but DH does not care. It isn’t that she doesn’t want to, but southern girls are about some BBQ and seafood. She’s worried the froo-froo food will just be a disappointment. 
 

Maybe I’ll just ask for it for my birthday in a month, then she’ll have to go with me!

After our April cruise was cancelled, and now our August cruise cancelled, we are booked on the Magic in December with a large amount of OBC. We are planning the Steakhouse the first night, and plan to eat in the MDR every night. I wouldn’t say we are foodies, but it looks like an experience and since this is planned to be our last vacation for a while, we are going all out. At $190 for two, it’s basically the price of an excursion, and we look at it the same way weighing price vs. experience. If you’ve done it, can you say if it was or wasn’t worth it? If you’d go again or never?

Second, do you find that it’s all booked up before you board? With our OBC I would prefer to wait to book excursions (nothing too fancy or exotic) til we can use our OBC, but if I have to purchase this ahead of time I can. 

On 5/6/2020 at 1:18 PM, N7786W Flyer said:

I agree and I'll go one further...I wish Carnival had given us an additional option.  For those having excursions or other items purchased through the Fun Shops, rather than refunding that money, I wish they had allowed us to simply use ALL of our money (gratuities, port taxes, excursions, etc.) as FCC. 

 

For Gift Card holders, this definitely would have made the whole process a lot more pain free.

 

Relative to your point, even if you pay with gift cards, your Cabin Confirmation should delineate MOST of your expenses giving you at least a baseline as to what Carnival owes you.  However, some expenses don't show on the Cabin Confirmation documents.  Excursions may be listed on the Cabin Confirmation, but their actual cost is not...at least on my documents they're not....also, specialty dining, internet packages, and drink packages aren't listed at all!

 

Also, to make things more difficult for gift card holders, Carnival apparently doesn't send email confirmations when you purchase a lot of these items so unless you keep very good records, you really don't have a record of what you spent, whereas credit card holders have an account statement that they can reference.

 

As I mentioned in another thread, Carnival has cancelled 3 of my cruises that I used 100% gift cards to pay for....and I'm very concerned that their #'s won't match mine when the refunds finally come.  Hopefully, I'll be proven wrong.

 

Garnett

When we rebooked our cancelled April cruise (paid for all but $400 in gift cards) we used the entirety of the amount (including gratuities we had already paid) toward a FCC and upgraded the room on the new trip. Yeah, we have to pay gratuities again now, but I’ll let them come off the OBC on the ship. 

Interesting. That looks more fun. 
 

these were the little speed boats we did. 

3 hours ago, firefly333 said:

I wait and never once had trouble booking excursions onboard, especially the higher priced ones. The cheapest ones are the only ones I see selling out.

 

I was thinking of chefs table myself, I got 800 to spend all by myself. And that speed boat in cozumel, twister and the air boat in Belize, still deciding.

Did the “speed boat” in Cozumel some years ago. I’m not sure what I expected, but it was a small two seater boat with a lawnmower engine that went about 25mph and you stayed in a line. That may be fine for city folk, but growing up in the south with a lake house I was driving small fishing boats at age 10, personal water craft, etc. Current PWC is turbocharged and will do 70+ on a smooth lake. 
 

If you didn’t grow up around water it may be fun. If you did grow up around water it may induce yawns...

When I called he referenced my original booking and said the refund was offered the way I described above, since my August trip was also purchased with FCC from my cancelled April trip. 

You may want to call. I also had a rebooked August cruise cancelled. Yesterday I called in and after an hour waiting on hold, I had my new cruise set up in about 15min. But he did ask if I wanted the refund and listed the amounts (some to card, rest to a gift card since that is how I paid for most of the trip). 

I hope so!

I would have been getting home today from the first Alaskan sailing of the year. We are rebooked in August for a Caribbean instead. I was pretty optimistic when I rebooked, but lately I’m not. I run an essential business and people just aren’t staying in. I’ve already picked out a back-up back-up cruise for December. Since I paid with gift cards, I basically have to use it with CCL. 

I would be leaving on her Monday in a different world. 😔

8 minutes ago, PaulieG13 said:

Saudi Arabia has been positioning for years to make their coastal cities into beach resort destinations.  I see this as a very smart move by a bunch of very rich people trying to change the world's image of the Arab nations. Would not be one bit surprised to see Carnival cruise ships in the Red Sea next year. Maybe even in the Persian Gulf with a UAE partnership to have stops in Dubai and Abu Dabhi!

And that’s a cruise I would take!

So curious, are y’all who take the future cruise able to see your $600 OBC in your booking? We had a cruise cancelled, booked a future cruise, and had $93 extra that I just had them leave as OBC. I can see the $93 in my booking details, but is the $600 something I should see now or when we hopefully board in 4 months?

Well, jumped in and picked up 100 shares just under $9 today. I have another order in for another 200 if it goes to $5. We could afford to lose it if it came to it, but if it goes to $60 again in a few years and I’m sitting on 300 shares that’s a kids college tuition, a down payment on a new car, etc (no kids yet so really no idea what it will be doing in 20+ years) and it was bought for a long term hold, not something to dump in a month with a small return. I like cruising, wife likes “fun ships” so if the OBC for shareholders continues that’s one a day for her each cruise. 

Yup. Our 4/20 to Alaska on Spirit was cancelled. I had been shopping backup cruises, so Saturday morning I was able to call and get setup in about an hour. We went from an interior obstructed view to an extended balcony on a Western Caribbean itinerary. Ended up being even cheaper so we had $93 on top of the $600 from CCL. 
 

I will definitely be in good *spirits* when this trip gets here. 

11 minutes ago, Radiioman46 said:

How do I get a PVP? I've never knew anything like that existed. 

Spend a few days making mock bookings while logged in to CCL’s website. They will call you, lol. 
 

36 minutes ago, Stick93 said:

They won't know for a while - this all depend on how the virus plays out and when the ports open. That will not be known on Monday.

I'm aware. However given that it’s beyond the 30 day hiatus, I’m inclined to think they have more info than I do. The port closure was announced Thursday or Friday, so not much time for CCL to get those cruises cancelled. I’m fully anticipating it being cancelled, but I’m waiting to see what they do. I booked in April because the Alaskan cruises are cheaper than the ones in June and July. The same room thru July is $700-800 more. That pays for our float plane excursion. We are planning on starting our family next year, and decided we were not flying cross-country with a kid younger than 7-8, so for us, Alaska was this year, or 2030. It still is. 
 

If we can’t accommodate work schedules to go in July, we can get a balcony for a western caribbean for the same price! If we can go in July, I need to know if we will have to cough up the extra $700 that room currently books for over what we have paid. 

Haha, we are scheduled on the first cruise of the season leaving from Vancouver. A member of our FB group posted the question to John Heald and he said he would have more info Monday. 
 

I'm curious for an answer and currently backup planning a wester Caribbean for the same dates in just over a month, or a different Alaskan offering in July if my wife is unable to get work sorted out. 

8 hours ago, PrincessArlena'sDad said:

Hmmm.… I heard it was New Mexico 😉

Nevada...