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On 3/23/2022 at 5:52 PM, kalmich said:

Delete the app then reinstall it.

Delete the app,

restart the device -and then re-install from a fresh download

2 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

While Fincantieri has built most of Carnival's ships,

they only bought interest in the Progresso shipyard in October last year. 

I seriously doubt that 1. Fincantieri has moved workers from Italy to Mexico already, and 2. that Mexico would allow much of that. 

While there is a large shipyard there,

it is mostly for the offshore oil industry, and has no drydocking facility.

I had a look on Google Earth satellite-image views

and this large square area would seem to be it?

I think I see a slipway? (wouldn't fit Glory,anyway..)

11 hours ago, Moviela said:

The port has a HUGE ship repair yard. 

Fincantieri has hundreds of qualified workers and machinery

to repair cruise ships there.

They have actually built many Carnival ships.

Looks like they are providing a little "factory service"

for the Glory docking equipment. 

Very interesting!

Didn't know that: thanks for the edu.

That new hull colour really dresses up the ships

especially the older ones!

Most unfortunately, room service results in
this unsightly wreckage in the hallways..

16 hours ago, groundloop said:

Just get the booster and be done with it. 

I'm so glad I've had my three,

and looking forward to number 4 anytime soon.

I used to gamble with Death in my motorcycle days

but I'm a bit wiser now I'm 72...

On 3/22/2022 at 1:53 PM, BlerkOne said:

Conquest has an extended dry dock scheduled

Dry Dock: 9/05/22-10/09/22

- and she'll be emerging with the new dark blue hull coloring
which will help to dress her up a good bit!

Should look something like sister ship Valor, shown here

docked in Miami...

On 3/21/2022 at 6:27 PM, chengkp75 said:

Which is 1.7% of the $289 million estimated just to keep her afloat.

Do taxpayers have that commitment? 

She earned $3.3 million/year, so that is an 87 year return on investment.

 Think she'll be there that long?

You portray an unsustainable future.
She won't be there that long.....

Looking forward to when we might have

a modern-looking fleet of ships

with the very oldest of them.. Destiny/Sunshine!

18 hours ago, chengkp75 said:

LOL!

Yes that's pretty much what it boils down to!!

SO glad I've had my three!

1 hour ago, CarnivalShips480 said:

 

I have been watching update videos from the scrap yards.

 

Fantasy - completely scrapped (for a while now)

Fascination - already started taking some off the bow

Inspiration - completely scrapped

Imagination - untouched, nothing scrapped at all

 

All the ships in aliaga have been scrapped expect Imagination. Nothing has been done to it except the scrape from hitting Fantasy in September 2020. Now when Sensation comes there will be 2 fantasy class ships that will both be scrapped at around the same time, but the arrivals were 1 1/2 years apart.

It's never a pretty sight............

Carnival's website malfunctions are legendary!

Seriously legendary.

They've been happening now -not for years but for decades.

Your lucky day, huh?

I woulda been ticked off

because I value (and keep/collect) my cruise cards!

Surely it was the attendant's responsibility

to have tickets available!

The attendant "fell down badly" - not you.

You suffered the consequences!

2 hours ago, Ohio Bucki said:

Lunch is provided on the island by the ship.

That is so cool! And at no extra charge! Wow!

Very nice of Carnival: thank you.

One cool thing

with door decorations when they're on my strip of corridor

- they serve as navigational way-points when I'm headed back to the cabin!

Don't laugh.

Late at night we can all use a little help!

Your choice of a look-alike Rolex

in the Duty Free Shops on board?

10 hours ago, deliver42 said:

It was caused by strong winds. Nothing could be done. 

A few hundred miles away, in Barbados

we had a seriously windy day, that same day, yesterday Monday

with a few significant gusts!
I'm guessing DR had that same hi-pressure area?
 

Given a narrow channel, and a big buncha wind

catching the side of a brick wall like Escape is,

and you will get blown sideways,

probably at a 5 degree list to leeward.

A bottle of water?

Carnival Celebration was "floated-out" on 11th. February 2022

- and this was That.

I've always had to pre-pay gratuities. No problem.

It's only money. And I'm not even rich.

But the poor workers deserve to get a little extra.

Pay your gratuities. Consider it part of the cost of your cruise.
It won't kill you.

Just carry ALL certification paperwork that could possibly be useful!

Better to not need it and have it, than vice versa.

Bureaucracy needs to be drowned in paperwork...

On 3/4/2022 at 12:11 AM, bmc alabama said:

... navigate a River for 7 hours each way

(which usually requires the stabilizers to be pulled in

- I didn't realize that until we did the Serenade OTS out of NOLA

and boy did it rock). 

 

Who'da thunk it?!

I would not have thought

that rockin and a-rollin would be a factor on a river!

It's amazing what ppl know -or remember!

With the increasingly-weird state of the world over the last two years

I'm beginning to wonder if I've now done My Last Cruise Ever...

Will I ever cruise again??