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Just now, cruisemom2 said:
Vista is moving to Port Canaveral next fall.
So that will leave us the Breeze and Dream and Jubilee.
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35 minutes ago, cruisingguy007 said:
I don't think it will get much better in the future, the floating mall design seems to be all the rage these days and increasing passenger counts/capacity a major focal point. I expect the issue to only get worse moving forward, bigger ships, smaller cabins and less elbow room in public spaces.
Yes we are sticking to ship no bigger than the Vista class from now on. Right now Galveston has the Vista, Dream and Breeze, next October we are getting the Jubilee, just wonder which of the three the move out. We will take the grandkids are 4-5 day cruises out of Galveston, but we are branching out for our fall cruise from now on.
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22 minutes ago, kdr69 said:
Did you have anytime Dining? I belive this is usually a Dining option for those that do so it could very well have been full. Did you use the Hub App to select your dining time and get your table number before you went?
Yes we had anytime dining. But we knew people on the ship that had anytime dining and they got to sit inside. Yes the hub app opened for seating at 5:15 and they started seating at 5:30.
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2 minutes ago, RollTide73 said:
Can you take Monsters as your 'sodas'?
I do, plus when I cruise from homeport of Galveston I take a 10 or 12 pack of the 16 ounce cans.
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27 minutes ago, crewsweeper said:
Thank both of you for your reviews. Always interesting to see different points of view from same cruise. I'm assuming that the Mardi Gras docked in Grand Turk last week. There's a question out about having to show vaccination status there. Did either of you have any issues?
BTW your state has the best Rest Stops I have ever seen in my life. Most rest stops I have ever seen also.
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18 minutes ago, crewsweeper said:
Thank both of you for your reviews. Always interesting to see different points of view from same cruise. I'm assuming that the Mardi Gras docked in Grand Turk last week. There's a question out about having to show vaccination status there. Did either of you have any issues?
We didn't have to show any proof of vaccine at Grand Turk. I did meet 3 Mexican national at the shopping area looking at the map of the Caribbean. Grand Turk hired them to repair the dock.
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19 minutes ago, bguppies said:
Jacksonville can only accomodate Fantasy and Spirit class.
Tampa will be doing our second Spirit class out of there, so I'm not positive how big they can go to get under their bridge.
That was the beauty of Charleston, was that the pier was on the oceanside of our bridge.
The cruiselines do better with the newer, higher passenger count ships, so I'm sure, the Fantasy and Spirit class, smaller ships will be gone in the next 10 years or so and if those ports that have bridge issues don't build and oceanside/gulfside terminal to their bridges, then Carnival will have to find new homes for them or adjust their multihomeport model they use currently.
I'll be sad to see them go. because I'll do a cruise on the Spirit class. versus any class larger, 100 out of 100 times.
The older class ship will all eventually be retired as it was come the time where it cost more to maintain the ship than they would make in revenue.
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Just now, iria64 said:
Was on the MG in August. I never had a problem getting a drink from a bar. The longest was maybe on embarkation day around the pool... maybe 5 minutes.
Pig & Anchor was our least favorite restaurant and we never ate in the MDR for dinner.
Overall the ship was OK. My biggest complaint was the usage of space. For a new ship you would think some of the public spaces would have been more thought out. Its almost like they put in the revenue generating areas and then figured out how to squeeze in the public spaces. You can be walking around outside on deck 7 and you come to a dead end. The only way to get back inside is to go all the way back aft.
They also set up choke points outside many of resturaunts and bars for pictures. Outside the Havana bar on the way to Chi-Bang or Cucina they had a photo station and you had to wait 10-15 minutes to walk by because they were taking photos. Maybe they lost staff in between your cruise and mine and but many people were remarking how it took a long time to get drinks from several of the bars.
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Just now, Ilovesailaway said:
I would be frustrated if I waited 30 min for a drink.
OP do you have another line you prefer?
10 cruises so far and all 10 on Carnival. October of 23 we are doing a 8 day to the ABC islands with Celebrity. Will see how they are. Taking my girlfriend grand kids on a cruise next March of 23 on spring break on the Breeze. We like Carnival but the downgrade in food that wasn't that great to begin with and bartenders that swear that there is no sugar in a classic daiquiri is not making want to spend my money with them for very much longer.
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Just off the Mardi Gras this Saturday 10-15-2022. Ship is really nice, staff is great, constantly cleaning. The ship is also very under staffed. Wait time in most bars to get a drink was 30 minutes or better, some of the bars only had one bartender during peak hours. Havana Bar was our go to bar but no one there could make the classic Daiquiri. They just put rum and lime juice in a glass, shook it for a second and handed it to you. I asked why they were not putting a simple syrup in it, they told me the drink does not have simple syrup in it just rum and lime juice. Tried another Daiquiri in Brass Magnolia bar and they made it the same way. We tried Chi-Bang and was not thrilled, girlfriend ordered the pork carnita's and after she took off the fat was left with two very small bites of food. Went to Cucina two nights and both nights they sat outside the restaurant in front of the Bar Della Rosa even though both nights we were there as soon as the opened. Asked the second night we went if we could sit inside and was told it was full, even though they just opened and could it was half empty. Sitting outside by the bar with everyone walking was not a very nice atmosphere. Ate at Pig and Anchor one night and while the meat was ok the sides were just awful, sides in the little small metal bowl that you use for ketchup at Guys Burgers. Went to a show about Vegas and the male singer was pure 100 percent autotuned. I really miss the lovely mattress that Carnival had on my first few cruises in 2010 and 2012. The ones they have now feel like a small layer and padding and cinder blocks underneath the padding.
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Only ones I saw and drank were the green monster's. They are 12 ounce cans, not the 16 ounce you can buy at stores
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Leave on the Mardi Gras this Saturday, still showing us going to Grand Turk. My girlfriend has social media and it is being reported that this weeks sailing is going the Nassau instead of Grand T urk.
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Happy Ending to your massage?
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23 hours ago, mz-s said:
It's a new surprise every time you board. For example last week I learned you can't actually pay attention to the app because even if it says the pizza place is open at 9AM, in reality nobody will be there to serve you until around Noon.
Like they say the bars are open at 8 am, actually I never see anyone to at least 0945.
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Text CCL5 to CRUISE (278473). When I checked in for our October 8 Mardi Cruise I put both our numbers in for text alerts and my girlfriend got the above from Fakebook.
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I use duck tape and tape em to my shoes and walk around getting a leg workout.
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19 minutes ago, mz-s said:
Customs is still there and they use facial recognition to flag people if need be.
But I guess they decided it wasn't worth the effort to track down most cruisers for the duty on a few bottles of liquor or cartons of cigarettes. So they mostly just wave people on through nowadays.
Hahahaha Try that at Galveston. TABC is there trying to search as many people as they can.
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23 minutes ago, mz-s said:
Well a lot of the food on Carnival isn't that good anymore, it's just a sign of the times I guess.
Never has been that good. My first cruise in 2010 and the food as meh. I was really looking forward to it after all the talking up my sister in law was giving the food. But then she uses the smoke detector as timer when cooking.
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1 minute ago, stobe1 said:
I say this on every post-cruise survey. I would like to see a proper English or Irish Pub concept on board.
Mmmmmm Banger and mash done proper.
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3 minutes ago, printman52 said:
Ohhhh so that explains the drug dogs. we just return from the sunrise sept 19 to the 24th. (it was the worst) when we were boarding before going up the escalators there was a cop there with a drug down sniffing everyone carry on and person.
They aren;t always looking for drugs. They also look for food, plants and animals. An invasive non native plant or animal can wreck havoc in a ecosystem.
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A 24 hour bar/restaurant. I am a early riser no matter being on vacation or not I'm still awake by 0430 every single day. I would to get a light snack and my Monster energy drink that early in the morning.
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I had an issue yesterday checking in for our cruise. I had to delete my cache of cookies and log back in to the site then it worked.
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21 minutes ago, ColeThornton said:
If you are looking for others on your cruise check the Roll Call for that sailing. Click on the "Find Your Roll Call" link at the top of the page.
Roll Call's are more or less obsolete these days with social media taking over.
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😖 We are driving from Houston area on the 5th of October for our 8 October Mardi Gras cruise. Hope these storms do not mess it up.
Retirement of smaller ships
in Carnival Cruise Lines
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While they say they don't plan on retiring anymore for now. You will only get so many years out of hull and so many years out of the engines. Even if the rebuild the engines on a regular basis the older ships will cost them more money to operate in the future.