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Yes I booked it directly through Vok Baths months before we went there. They sell out pretty quickly. You can check daily though because sometimes people cancel and some times open up. But space is limited so they limit how many people can be there throughout the day.

We are going there next summer so I was able to access the price list for everything. Here it is: Celebration Key Cabana Prices: Over lagoon Super Villa $1,999 Super Villa at beach $1,799 Large Cabana $899 Over lagoon cabana $739 Regular Cabana $599 Aquabana (water cabana) $449 Daybed $149 Water daybed $119

We just got off of the Mardi Gras a couple weeks ago and those extra charge items were on the new menu. They looked delicious but I didn’t try them. I got my usual concoction: beef & broccoli, Hakka noodles, pork belly, a side of green beans, & a side of broccoli. I mix it all together and it’s amazing! I have the spring rolls for an appetizer and the Crema Catalina for dessert.

ASI did great I would highly recommend him. There were lots of other people there but I never asked if any of them were cruisers. We made reservations online at Vok Baths website. You can prepay and add stuff to your reservation like robes. There are several natural pools all with different temperatures which was nice to try out. They have a swim up bar and a small restaurant too. We really enjoyed it, it was nice to have our own private driver for the day.

Well that would be the posters fault because he/she was making posts on a roll call using an account that had their personal info on it. I don’t join Facebook roll calls for that reason, I only do CC ones. The only details someone can see about me in a roll call post here on CC is my username (which is never my real name.) I never have my address, location or personal details included in my account. I know some people include everything but I don’t, even on TikTok I don’t use my real name or even what state I live in. And on Facebook when I make posts about my travels I make it private to where only family can see it. In this day and age we have to be hyper vigilant. But your point is valid, some roll call posts are dangerous.

Yes I know it was a federally mandated law that made that happen. I’m just saying I hope it happens to the rest of the travel industry too. I’m hoping that the government steps in and makes some more changes in the rest of the travel industry.

But if you immediately pay money before there’s lawsuits or lawyers involved you get that reputation of paying cash quickly which makes you become an even bigger target. My friend said word gets around quickly in the scammers groups and they specifically target corporations that are quick to pay cash, especially the ones that don’t involve lawsuits or lawyers. The scammers don’t like getting lawyers involved because it costs extra money. So if they followed your suggestion and paid quickly before it escalated to lawsuits it would make things worse, not better. It’s sad that there are people out there like that making it worse for honest hardworking people like us. As far as the standard in the travel industry changing, I agree that it’s changing and I’m thrilled about that. The new guidelines for airlines with cash compensation within a certain amount of hours was long overdue. I hope that this is the catalyst that pushes the whole travel industry into the right direction. It’s been needing a major overhaul for quite some time now.

Carnival is following the standard of practice in the travel industry which is to offer a credit but no cash when there are unresolved issues. The airlines always want to offer credits instead of cash, so do hotels, resorts, etc. Even though I’m not a fan of receiving a credit instead of cash I acknowledge it’s all I’ll usually get out of the travel industry when issues arise. I’m sure these large corporations have weighed the pros and cons before implementing this type of policy. It must be the better choice or they’d change their policy. I worked for a large corporation for many years and when issues arose and lawsuits were threatened they never made cash offers regardless of the situation. I was chatting with a guy in the legal department and he said when they stopped offering immediate cash settlements, their lawsuits dropped in half. He said it’s because big corporations get lots of frivolous lawsuits with no merit just because people think they’ll offer a quick cash settlement to make them go away. But once a corporation gets a reputation of never offering money up front or settling quickly, the lawsuits disappear. So yes, initially the cost of the lawsuit along with its bad publicity looks like a bad choice, but if you look at the whole picture and how it effects the amount of lawsuits they get then their choice is understandable. Because they save money over the long run from the hoards of scammers looking for a quick buck.

Yeah she’s definitely trying to hurt Carnivals reputation by putting negative videos up regularly. She just put another video up yesterday saying that “unfortunately Carnival hasn’t fixed the security issue.” But she’s losing traction because her first video had over 900k views and the latest only has 5k.

I never thought about that but I guess that could have happened. But her story has run on several news agencies and was recently featured on Good Morning America and Carnival didn’t dispute the 10k offer that’s been mentioned every time. They made a statement basically saying that “consumer experts advise that it’s never a good idea to post personal info about your travel plans.”

She recorded the conversation with Carnival on her phone then posted it on TikTok. The Carnival rep said they would give her 10k in future credit if she stated that “Carnival resolved the issue.” Those were the exact words. She refused the offer. I imagine she regrets that now.

She was bragging on Facebook about her Excel Presidential Suite with a wraparound balcony (it’s huge) and someone didn’t like it and canceled the cruise out of spite. The money is gone because it was cancel 2 days prior to her cruise so there’s no refund money to go to anyone. And with Carnival the system probably gave someone a cheap upgrade because the cabin was snagged just hours after hers was canceled. Just days prior to a Carnival cruise I’ve been upgraded from an ocean view to a balcony and from a lower end suite to a huge suite for peanuts. You can get some really good last minute upgrades or upsells as some like to call it. I think that’s what happened here. As for going into your planner and canceling the cruise, yeah it can be done on Carnival and that needs to be fixed. The system is setup so that you can add family and friends on the same cruise as you (but in a different cabin and under a different reservation) to your booking. That way you can be assigned to the same table at dinner, purchase restaurant reservations together, share excursions, etc. It’s not an easy process to go in and cancel someone in the cruise planner where your reservations are linked and you have to know what you’re doing but it can be done. But you’ve got to have all the right info in order to do it like the persons name, confirmation number, email, etc. And she shared all of that info on Facebook which made it easy for the scammer to cancel the cruise.

That’s the story that this post is about.

We’ve been on the Celebration twice, the Mardi Gras twice, and the Jubilee once. And I can say for absolute certain that Cucina Del Capitano is NOT open for lunch on embarkation day on the Excel class. If it was open it would be my first choice for lunch. The reason it’s not open is because it’s being used for muster drills on that first day. So is Chibang, it’s closed for the same reason. Cucina has the free lunches all week long too, just not on embarkation day.

I forgot to mention that we liked our transatlantic cruise so much that we booked another one too. We are on the Mardi Gras Barcelona cruise in 2025 as well.