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Jeff, great photos and review. I will say it again that Carnival needs to pay you and Patti to cruise and do reviews. Thanks for your labor of love in doing these reviews. Looking forward to your next great adventure.

Great review so far, keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing the rest.

10 minutes ago, Jamman54 said:

Thanks for reading and for your kind words. Patti and I will begin our next journey on Thursday as we head to Miami to board the Celebration on Sunday.😎

Have a safe trip and I hope you have a great cruise. 

Thanks for another great review. I still say that Carnival should pay you and Patti to cruise and do reviews of their ships. I know that both of you put a lot of effort into the reviews and it shows that it is a labor of love. I'm looking forward to reading your next endeavor.

Thanks for posting, we didn't start cruising until '02 but still enjoy looking at the pics.

The ship could also be late, we just got off the Pride on the 13th and we were over 1 1/2 hours late, I know we sailed out of Tampa but it could happen at any port. We weren't doing a side by side thankfully.

On 3/20/2022 at 9:24 PM, trbarton said:

Good suggestion to have some extra kits. I watched a person on YouTube that I follow & he had the kit too close to the edge of the table & he accidentally knocked the kit off of the table so he had to start all over again. 
 

Tom😀

After watching that video we decided to order 2 more test and it was also the reason that I wouldn't get up for the 15 minute wait, I was afraid that I would knock my test in the floor but as others have stated it was easy. But do watch several videos before starting.

On 3/18/2022 at 4:33 PM, wesorbeth said:

UGH! Sorry that was your experience! We were on the Pride in October and really enjoyed Frankie.  We had an awful debarkation out of Mobile once, did not get off the ship until 11 we felt like hostages!

 

Frankie wasn't our cruise director, ours was Alexis he was terrible.

My opinion of the Sailabration cruise on the Pride. It didn't live up to the hype, having said that we had a great cruise. The crew was great and very friendly and did a great job. The cruise director was the worst that we have ever sailed with and this was our 23rd cruise, the debarkation was a disaster for self assist. The food was good but sometimes not warm enough in the main dining room. The deli was subpar. The entertainers in the main lounge were hit or miss, some were good some not so good. We enjoyed listening to Rick and Ruby in the lobby, if you are on a cruise with them be sure to go listen to them. It was good to be cruising again after missing the last 2 years, we still love Carnival.

On 3/15/2022 at 11:35 PM, Tnlynch81 said:

Disappointing. We were on the Vista and there really was not much difference between a normal cruise. The ship meet up was OK. Neat to see all the ships together, but you could barely hear any horns. They burned a logo into the buns at guys,  had a few banners hanging, and the special menu was not all that special. Definitely did not live up to the hype.

What they said, we were on the Pride.

36 minutes ago, wgeddings said:

I have no pertinent comment but just the topic title made me laugh.  Is it a gun that shoots massages?  Is it a heavy thumper type hand-held massage device.  Is it a "personal massage devise"?   I mean no offense but wanted to thank you for making me laugh as I envision my own type of "massage gun".  😄

 

More seriously, assuming it is a massage device that plugs in, I would assume it would be fine depending on the electrical requirements.  Fans and similar electric devices are okay but regardless of what others experience might have been, if it is something you really need to take on board I suggest you contact Carnival ahead of time and get clarification (in writing) so you will have no problems.  Whether they classify it was a medical device or whatever. 

That is the name of it, glad I could make you laugh and no it's not a "personal massage devise"

Has anyone had a problem taking a massage gun onboard? 

We love the cove balconies, we had 2288 twice on the Dream, 2294 once on the Breeze and 2288 on the Magic. You will have some spray but we prefer the cove.

3 hours ago, 2Shoes2Go said:

My first cruise was a short Sensation in 2008. DH had a few ahead of me then. To date:  199 Carnival cruises for 1083 days (Diamond). Also, on Royal, 412 days at sea. (D+)

So, next up is #200, eventually. 😀

WOW!!!! I think we may have been on a couple of cruises at the same time. 

What year did you start cruising with Carnival? How many cruises have you been on with Carnival? How many cruise days do you have with Carnival? I'll start it off, we started cruising in 2002, 21 cruises and 152 days with Carnival.

Thanks to each of you for your replies.  May each of you always have smooth seas and clear skies.

1 hour ago, ecarbine said:

New Brand Ambassador perhaps?

I think you might be right.

4 hours ago, jimbo5544 said:

They just lost the best CD there is.   He announced on FB

One of the best CD we have ever cruised with.

We love the Paradise......we took our first cruise on it in 2002 when it was smoke-free and sailing 7 days out of Miami.

We sailed on the Paradise in Sept. of 2018, it was a 5 day cruise, we had a great time. With that being said, I did not like the add on balcony. I liked the ship better before the add on balconies but that is just my 2 cents.

1 hour ago, jimbo5544 said:

I will put it this way...the entire group asked me each and every night what pants I was wearing to dinner.  Luckily one of my son in laws was the same size.

A very diplomatic response!

12 minutes ago, jimbo5544 said:

I am like you, the wife talked me into the trying to pack in advance and I had to wait to pack pants (wore them work each day), come to the night before, we had a large group and some came to our house.  We ended up putting their kids down in all the bedrooms and staying up and pre cruise drinking till time to leave.  Fast forward to getting on the ship, we were in coins suite and had people over for cocktails after embark.  bags come and I go in to unpack....no pants.

Of course your wife didn't say anything....did she?😄

1 hour ago, mark316 said:

Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m packing for August 2021...

Hope it's not wrinkled to bad.😃

We had a cruise scheduled on November 7th on the Carnival Breeze. The cruise was canceled by Carnival. Given the current situation going on now in the world, we are glad they did. Don't know if we will ever book another cruise,  we started cruising in 2002 and had not missed a year going on a cruise until this year.  We feel blessed for the all the places we have seen and the amazing excursions we have been on.

On the 12th of Never.