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After the Carnival Triumph incident a few years ago Carnival added these additional generators to their ships. They eventually are enclosed in nicer surroundings when the ship goes into drydock. These generators provide additional power in the event the engine room cannot operate.

The ships were built with emergency generators, but these were sized for life safety purposes - navigation, radio, emergency lighting, launching lifeboats, etc. They were not sized to run hotel services - galleys, toilets, more lighting, etc. The additional generators are to support some basic hotel services - still not everything, but more than they had on the Carnival Triumph,

Emergency generators need to be run from time to time to keep them in good shape. (I worked in IT operations for many years and we had emergency generators for the data centers. These were tested and run for a while monthly to ensure they were ready when needed.)

My stunningly beautiful young wife also has IBS and is both gluten and dairy free. Follow the advice from iamsteph - my wife does this every cruise.

I also suggest you go to the Captain's Celebration (or whatever it is called now) on the first Cruise Elegant evening. Many of the senior officers are present before the introductions. Meet the Food Operations Manager and talk with him or her about what is going well and what is not. While Carnival does a great job with special dietary needs, the Food Operations Manager can help with any issues or gaps.

Chef's Table is in the Chic Dining Room Annex on the Freedom.

There is occasionally a Carnival photographer at the skyride, but they are not there all the time.

All passenger muster stations on the Freedom are on deck 4, Atlantic Deck, in the long outside corridor by the lifeboats. Your cabin is on the starboard side of the ship, and your muster station will be on the starboard side. Just 2 decks below your cabin.

JB is Jocelyn Blandford. Jocelyn, Kevin and Butch are Carnival's 3 Entertainment Operations Supervisors. They work out of the Miami office and are each responsible for entertainment on 8 ships. They visit the ships they are responsible for from time to time.

Noonan has a Facebook page, "Noonan - Cruise Director" and assistant CD Shorty's Facebook page is "Cruising with Shorty"