TinkLoverSam

Looking forward to the rest of this review! I have used your Venezia review to get excited for our first Carnival cruise on the Firenze in November. Thinking about an East Coast cruise possibly with the kids in 25 or 26.

working at a land based restaurant where tips aren't added on the every drink and working on a cruise ship that adds an 18% gratuity to each drink ordered is very different. Of course land based servers who get nothing a a one drink order are not happy. the difference is that the bard enters on ships got their 18% on the drink already so anything on top is a happy extra.

possibly those aforementioned racy books 😇 if Greg took a picture of almost any page on my book he'd probably get banned from CC

This is literally my worst nightmare... I'm always afraid someone is reading over my shoulder. I have a privacy screen for when I'm reading on my phone, now I think I need one for reading on my kindle!!🫣

yay!! I've been thinking you had a cruise coming up, I just couldn't remember which line so I was checking all the boards.

Getting excited for November!!!

Welcome fellow Calgarian!

Canadian bacon is back bacon with a peameal coating

We didn't cruise on Carnival to Alaska, we have only cruised Disney but we have done this tour for whale watching in Juneau with and without kids and it was amazing each time:https://www.stepintoalaska.com/excursions/alaskas-whales-glaciers-rainforest-trails/

Also if you are checking bags the last time I flew into Orlando the baggage carousel they sent out bags to was broken and it took and hour and a half after landing to get our bags.

I have only cruised to Endicott glacier and never done Glacier Bay and it is still beautiful and awe-inspiring

I have done 2 cruises to Alaska, both in an inside cabin. I say the best cabin for an Alaskan cruise is the one you can afford that gets you on the ship! Pros of an inside cabin: It stays light FOREVER in the summer in Alaska, having the inside cabin allows you to get great sleep with no light seepage Cons of an inside cabin: there is beautiful scenery everywhere and you will have to go to a public deck to enjoy it. The pro to this is that the scenery is all around you and being on an upper, open deck allows you to enjoy being literally surrounded by the beauty

It is beautiful just from the ship. The really nice thing about Alaska is that most ports are right in the tourist area so you walk off the ship right into the touristy port area. We did do excursions at every port but were able to do an excursion, re-board the ship for a late lunch and then pop back off to wander around the port area.

Yes, I used the same us address for shipping and billing and I just used the zip code hack as above so it would match my credit card address.

I did, I used my office address in the US but put the postal code without the letters and added 00 to them like you do at US gas pumps (eg T2P 2V6 becomes 22600 for the zip code) You could probably just use a random US hotel address for the street address as well.