Sickballer34

My wife and I are doing this same cruise and itinerary in a couple weeks and had a question. This will be our first cruise so wasn't sure if there will be beach towels available at the beach on port days or do we need to bring our own? Looked around on the forum but didn't see any info on that. Thanks

Thank you. I can't imagine driving down to Florida to get on the ship and be turned away 🥺 what a nightmare scenario.

We were able to call the call the city clerk where we were born to order our birth certificates. Should only take a week so we are good to go now. Vitalcheck in Albany massively backed up so got lucky there. We live in North Carolina now so going there wasn't an option. Thanks all for the different suggestions. Definitely an eye opener to make sure our documents are correct .

We don't have the EDL driver license. Will check in to it ty

Yea how did we get a driver's license lol. Never had a problem using it for licenses or marriage so we never knew it wasn't an official government certificate. We did call Vitalcheck and was told NY is so far behind on issuing birth certificates that they are doing ones received in September of 2022. We sent our form in end of January when we went to apply for a passport and found out ours were no good so looking not likely to get it before our sail date. Told it was possible but that's too much to gamble. Going to try to call the actual city clerk where we were born and see if they can get it to us sooner. Thanks for the replies and suggestions...much appreciated

Booked our first cruise ever with Carnival for July 24th on Elation. However our birth certificates that we have had all our lives turn out to be not government issued so will not be accepted for travel. We had no idea. They were the birth certificates we were given as kids and never thought twice about them. We applied to get our official government issued birth certificates in January. We have learned they will not be sent to us to to the backlog of people applying until well after our cruise. As this was the only week we were both off for our company's shutdown week we will have to cancel. Our final payment date was may 10th. Do they refund us all or partial payments or is there a penalty? We did not purchase travel insurance and we booked on carnivals website. We also purchased cheers and faster to the fun.. will they be refunded in full? Looked for answers on here but can't seem to find out . Thanks for any help

First time cruiser here in July 2023 and first post. If you purchase FTTF does it matter what time you check in? If we have a 1 pm time can we still show up at say 10:30 and check in with the fttf crowd or should we stay up late and get an early time to arrive? Sorry if this has been asked before I just want to make sure I understand how this works. Thanks.