Toronto1970

Anyone have any experience being able to get a discount on the Deluxe drink package in lieu of the soda package?

Hi Paul. Thanks for the link for the health advisory. Scary stuff. Too bad too, since the main beach on the French side of the Island is really nice. Although actuarially speaking it's probably still worth the risk.

We really haven't planned any excursions yet. And I don't think I got any link (or any info at all) from Pitbull listing their events. Did you get something?

And Ricflyer, sorry you won't be joining us!

Further to my last post (and I'm not even sure if it's kosher for me to post this here, so admins please delete if it's not), here's a link to our group booking page. There will be some events that will be exclusive for people booked through the group (and while I haven't checked lately, I know that as of a few months ago it was cheaper to go through the group than through Celebrity directly).

(Edit to note that 99% of us do NOT have the body portrayed on the event poster!)

http://www.pitbullevents.com/products/caribbean-cruise-2014

Hey, my BF and I are looking at booking this cruise. How many will be in your group? It would be nice to have other guys on the cruise.

I don't know how many dropped out at the time of final payment, but I know that a few month ago we were up to about 200 people. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to miss us!!!

Paul, I'm going! But you already knew that! LOL

My husband and I came back last week from the Pied Piper 14-night Asian cruise from Singapore to Hong Kong and had an amazing time. I understand some of the issues raised with PP brought up in this thread, but we personally have nothing but good things to say about the experience.

I wrote a blog post about our experience with Pied Piper here:

http://www.guyswhotravel.com/entry/booking-a-cruise-through-pied-piper-travel

And here's the post about the cruise itself:

http://www.guyswhotravel.com/entry/two-weeks-cruising-the-south-china-sea-on-the-celebrity-millennium

I have travel cancellation/interruption/delay insurance through my Bank of Montreal Mastercard. I pay an extra $60 a year for the travel insurance, and I have found that it has the most complete trip cancellation coverage in that price range.

However, I just found a situation that it didn't cover:

I was on the Dream a few weeks ago that was 7 hours late arriving in port due to the medical emergency. My flight out of MCO was at 1:30pm, which was impossible to catch by the time we reached Port Canaveral, so Air Canada rescheduled us for the next day.

I submitted the expenses for the flight change and the night's hotel to the insurance company underwriting the coverage (Allianz), but they rejected the claim, since the delay of the cruise ship was not a covered under the insurance. (Had I missed the BEGINNING of the trip due to a delay of a "common carrier" then they would have been covered the costs to catch up to the trip, but a common carrier delay is not covered once the trip has commenced).

It comes down to a strict reading of the insurance policy language. And while at the end of the day I do agree that their interpretation does follow the strict reading of the policy and I don't have any legal recourse, it is a bit upsetting since I think under the "spirit" of what the insurance is meant to cover, it should have been covered.

(All that said, you get what you pay for. It's the consumers responsibility to know what insurance they are buying. If I wanted 100% security, I should have paid extra to get the flights and insurance through Carnival. But I decided it wasn't worth that extra cost. Some times you win, sometimes you lose!)

Would a man/woman couple be welcome at a FOD meeting? My wife is openly bisexual and is very interested in going to one but doesn't want to go alone. Is this unusual?

I can't imagine anyone having any problem with you going - so long as you don't take offense if any guys end up hitting on you!