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1 hour ago, 5waldos said:

$200.00? As in, $67 a pound? Am I the only one shocked? 

Actually surprised it’s not higher, it’s $60/lb for king crab at my local Kroger’s and saw a video from Pike Place in Seattle where a vendor had king crab listed at $100/lb yikes.

FYI, carnival gift cards are back in stock on Allstate rewards at 12% off in 100, 500, and 1000 denominations.

Noticed last week my fcc disappeared from my account. Received my credit today for my May 31st Bermuda cruise I submitted on May 7th, very happy it was ahead of schedule and hoping this is a good sign for those still waiting. Fyi, I did not get an email notifying me to expect the refund, was hopeful it was on the way since the fcc disappeared and it was.

26 minutes ago, Jason82 said:

What confuses me is the credit is for the fare only.  I have yet to see anything from NCL about the other pre-paids including taxes, Prepaid Service Charges, or the Bev Srv Charge. I initially thought they'd lump those into the FCC,but based on my FCC they weren't. 

 

 I assume they'll refund those, but I don't really want to assume...

I paid for DSC, priority boarding, and a transfer to the airport and my email with the FCC amount correctly included it and the 25% bonus was calculated with those items included also. I am the only person on the reservation, not sure if that matters.

7 hours ago, tallnthensome said:

I have yet to read one account where people have said it was worth it. There haven’t been too many accounts of people even purchasing it. Are your ports all tendered or  some docked? 

I’ve seen a couple trip reports that thought it was worth it to ensure getting the Vibe passes.  Other than that, it’s been lukewarm. I went ahead and got it for my trip to get the Vibe passes and hoping it helps me get off the ship faster for my 12:30pm flight out of LGA.  I was excited about using it to get an omelette in the morning but the reviews for room service omelettes sound awful lol.

51 minutes ago, coevan said:

 

 

I don't think so, could be wrong, but it's for spa services. I also think it's 2 different cash registers. One is Steiner and one is Carnival. 

Maybe they made an error in my favor but I was able to apply it for my upcoming cruise. I just looked at my receipt again and it is 159 for an 8 day single pass and it says promotion applied 31.80 off for 127.20 total. You are correct, the email and banner for the spa code when they ran it said it was for treatments, but it did let me use it for the pass. 

Doing my research, I have heard some people with the pass get charged again by the spa once onboard so I’m going to double check my sail and sign during my cruise for billing errors.

On 11/27/2019 at 1:21 PM, Clarasgrandma said:

FYI the price of a spa interior cabin vs a regular interior can be cheaper than adding on a couples pass so you may want to look into that option also. We normally get the basic interiors but on our next cruise upgraded to a spa interior and saved quite a bit of money! $68 cheaper than buying a couples spa pass!

Another option is to watch out for the 20% off spa codes, they work for the passes too not just massages. I did that along with using the gift cards from Allstate drive wise for an extra 10% off for my magic cruise next week, can’t wait to try it out.

2 hours ago, Organized Chaos said:

 

It's a little more complicated for non-Allstate customers. Check out my post in the Allstate thread: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2363984-allstate-drive-wise-cards-too/page/55/?tab=comments#comment-58434416

Thanks OC for the detailed instructions. Very easy and already got my account up to the same amount of points I had on Rewards for Good.

Others have mentioned this before, adding your Hyatt number to the comment section when booking on the valuetrips site seems to help. I booked my room on a Saturday night a couple weeks ago and saw it in my Hyatt account on the Hyatt website by Tuesday night, 2 business days.  I never got an email confirmation from valuetrips and I checked my spam folder.

On 3/12/2019 at 5:35 PM, grandmarnnurse said:

I know this post is over a year old, but I just had an issue at Grand Turk.ALL the loungers and umbrellas are free! The locals there are just trying to rip us off. I just had this verified by John Heald at Carnival! They are looking into the issue to prevent it from happening again. All loungers right down to the water are free.

John actually posted on 3/14 on his Facebook page only the green umbrellas are free.  I would screenshot but not sure how to attach. Perhaps he told you they were all free and got clarification later that only the green umbrellas are free. It goes to show how confusing this is to people even people who work at Carnival!

In this thread, a poster recently went there, it starts at post #69

On 2/24/2019 at 6:42 AM, Pier290 said:

They told me both at Shore Excursioneer and the hotel that it's about a 30 minute drive.

Has anyone booked through Shore Excursioneer and completed their stay?  All the threads I saw everyone used resortsforaday. Shore Excursioneer says you get 7 hours at the resort vs 5 hours through resorts for a day.  My ship will be in port until 11pm so an extra 2 hours at the resort would be nice if anyone can confirm.