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I know I asked about your pre cruise test experience, but have you met people who had to test in Italy pre cruise? We are flying in 3 days prior.

People follow social media???😱

Well that is a view, might want to view the monetary side also, but staying in business (rushing to get ships sailing). It is your vacation after all.😎

They lost tens of billions of burn money while forced to shut down by the CDC. Started at 1.3 billion a month in the beginning down to 585 million the last month. This is not lost revenue, but the cost to keep ships idling. Actual money out the door, you could add lost revenue on top of that. During their startup, they are still loosing money (the slow resume to the sea). It is going to-be a while before the Carnival we all knew is back, until then, my view is I am perfectly fine with being able to cruise.

Exactly, that is why I asked.

Show me that

Fair point, we were on the original MG from Copenhagen which was delayed a few times due to production issues. Hopefully they planned for potential problems in the scheduling.

I jhave sailed both and while not as good I would disagree, as I mentioned. Our group of 10 HC cabins echo my thoughts, but to each their own.

Nice post

Enjoy it elsewhere then. You decide what works ans what does not. Might want to doublecheck what the other lines cut, it was not fair when the CDC shut them down for 17 months and they lost 10’s of billions either, but they did not complaim, kudos to them.

I am sure they are pushing the gambit to get them on ships as soon as possible. We do live in a really weird time, which demands weird actions.

It is usually two sep events. We have done many naming ceremonies but only a handful inaugurals, good ;oint..

Havana area was a home run when it came out on the Vista class, while I had apprehensions about the Excel class Havana area and cabins. While not as great as Vista class, IMHO, still worth the price difference.

It amazes me that people fight this so much

Every single conversation I have had with crew since returning had two components. The first was how thankful they were that we were cruising again. The second was that when probed, we heard stories that were amazing on what thye had to got through to be repatriated to their home countries,

I am not so sure past history is a good indicator, but there will be a ceremony, a godmother named and there is usually some chotski items given away and champagne flowing, at least that is what memory serves me.

Actually they were pretty good. Even if they were just so so, based upon what they have had to go through, I would cut them major slack, but that was not the case. We have sailed on 6 cruises since the restart and have 4 in the next 100 days. I have absolutely zero apprehension on getting on any of them. I was just answering the question as to WHY they would bring new ships to the market place, when they are short staffed. For the record, where ARE all those people that used to do those jobs (cruising and elsewhere)?

Actually an easy one, staff short supply, like the rest of the country has now, will be solved over time. New builds require payment and they will by far have the greatest demand by cruisers. New ships carry way more customers. Using the new math….squire root of Pi divided by quantum formula….carry the 4 equals…..more money. There you go. Add to that we have absolutely no idea what info they have on people in the pipeline, the timing of backfills, even their plan. We cruise, they do the mgt part

Any data on that

GREAT review so far

Those tens of billions of dollars they lost do take a while to recoup.

I would like to hear some details on pre cruise testing, where you got it, hpw long was response, etc. please.

Love Cinque Terre, nice start to your review.

Which of the big three status match?

I really do not know, from my view it is more societal broad based than a knee jerk reaction from the pandemic. At any rate, CCL needs to deal with it strongly before it gets out of hand. Whether their current response is adequate, we will see.