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The dough.

Thanks for your comments! We leave on Saturday!

 

Did you do any excursions? We haven't booked anything. I was kind of waiting on the weather...

We did this cruise 9/16/17, in Boston we did half the Freedom Trail from Quincy Market, as 2 years ago on the Splendor we did the other half. In Portland we walked over one pier to Casco Bay Lines and took the 10am "mailrun" to several Islands. Saw two bald eagles and had free internet. $16pp and were back before 1pm. St. Johns we did local sites as last time walked to Reversing Falls, well more like a creek. In Halifax walked to the Citidal and it is free this year with Canada celebrating it national parks 150 year.

Ship was awesome. Better than usual food, crew was amazing, they made us feel welcome from day one. We had decent weather every day and fog every night. Would love to have stayed another week...enjoy.

I often get our insurance through them, but never filed a claim, my concern would be when they ask for proof of cruise payment. We often use gift cards, future cruise certificates and vouchers toward payment and I'm not sure if USSA considers those types of payments to qualify for reimbursement.

Interested review

Another 3 post wonder.

Cruised Destiny and Breeze, liked Destiny, loved Breeze. Will cruise Sunshine within a few weeks and I think the Breeze will still win out, know soon.

I wish Carnival would just make gratuities a mandatory add on, I'm getting sick and tired of supplementing other peoples cheapness. I think that cruiselines should reduce gratuities fees to $10pp per day, no exceptions, that would offset the avoiders enough to allow the rest of us the financial hit of covering for them. Tip extra where you please.

I am so glad I never bought 3rd party gift cards, I check my existing ones, if I don't use them promptly every 2 months just to make sure that the card was not compromised.

Often Carnival will raise prices $10pp when they offer a $50 obc, still come out $30 ahead if two people.

Allianz offers annual policies and I have been thinking about it, seems above $400 a year. But we vacation more often and it probably would be worth it.

OP-Well, the easiest way is to make one payment, but you've said that isn't a preference for you due to card limit choices.

 

Only other ways I know of are to make payment by check (personal, cashier), money order, Western Union or bank wire. All of those are more inconvenient IMO, but it is up to you whether using the credit authorization form or a making single charge are more or less onerous. But those are your options.

I was thinking just mail a personal check, bank check or money order myself.

You MUST print your boarding pass (one for each cruiser- no more family boarding pass) and your luggage tags. However as others have suggested, probably a good idea to also print out the other docs. One thing I did was pre-print and sign the health forms (make sure you date them the day of your cruise) to save time filling it out at the port.

Not true.

Just save your boarding pass on your device and show.

If you need luggage tags they are provided ship side.

A health form is provided at port to fill out.

Be safe.

Does it matter? Never heard from op again.

My husband and I are Platinum. I miss the Godiva chocolates (4-piece box) and the other bottle of wine with dinner. Definitely feel I'm getting less. On my next cruise I'll be Platinum plus.

 

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I miss the 8-piece box.

In and out once seated may be 25 minutes, my concern is the wait time to get in the restaurant.

I was looking for this in the online check in too. Cant find it? Am I missing it?

I believe the field is available only if you book directly with Carnival.

We like connecting rooms while cruising because I like to meet new people, that's what cruising is about.

Too bad they didn't have FTTF or Platinum (presumption)status, their luggage would have been available in their cabin for retrieval in plenty of time to board.

I got ketchup.

I called Carnival yesterday to clear up another matter, but while I had the rep on the phone, I asked her if she knew whether the maitre'd had gotten my email about our special seating request. It's to accommodate my mom's hearing disability. I have always emailed the maitre'd's prior to cruising with my mom, and we have found that they get the emails, because the seating requests have been honored. (BTW Thank you CC for the info on how to email the maitre'd's). The Carnival Rep said "there is NO WAY to reach a maitre'd prior to a cruise. There are NO special email addresses." This is a direct quote. She said that if we had a special request, that we shouldn't have requested a set dining time of 6:00. If we wanted to sit at a table of just the 4 of us, then we should have gotten YTD. Huh? I've never heard this one. I explained that we love have a set dining time, and getting to know our servers. They also get to know us and by night 2, are almost reading our minds. I explained that we also love to tip well. Over and WAY above what the gratuities usually are. Anyway, I realize that the reps don't always know everything, but she spoke with such certainty. Anyone ever heard of this?

I love to tip well too, my tip to you is to get another Carnival rep.

No. It has to show as Carnival Reservations. Fun Shops show as Fun Shops.

 

I got it added to my 3 cards! Woo hoo! Now where should I go next?! :confused:

I was hoping you were still following this post, I was primarily thinking of you when I posted the ability to add the link.

I noticed this last night, it does raise an eyebrow.

Thank you for the update. I was able to add it to both my and my husband's Hilton AMEX card.

I was reading an article online from Travel & Leisure, it mentioned adding that link for savings for a Princess cruise, although my plan is for Carnival. I figured why not try it, it's been a month. Got lucky and thought I needed to share it here where some folks have saved me lots of money and given me awesome advise.

But alas, the link that worked last time:

www.americanexpress.com/wlcl

 

which allowed you to add the offer to branded AMEX cards where the offer does not appear is not working this morning.

 

If anyone finds a way to get the offer added to a branded card posting it here would be much appreciated.

Link works today!

I added both my Delta Platinum cards to it.