staceyglow

Nope, but most of the people who followed Carnival's recommendation not to book a flight before 1 will be just fine.

I am on the Panorama right now, and we experienced rough seas on the trip back to Cabo. They put airline - style barf bags in the elevator lobbies as a precaution, so I assume you can ask for one if you think you might need it at other times

But seriously, don't stress. Roll with it. Everyone who travels knows that stuff happens that is no one's fault and that you can't do anything about. I am on the Panorama right now, but on my last cruise, my inbound flight was delayed so much that I had to spend the night at the airport. I didn't let it ruin the rest of my trip. Now it's just an interesting story. 😊

They take the funfetti cheesecake off of the buffet and serve it to the crew. 😉

Looks like self disembark starts at 11.

Yep. I saw a housekeeping attendant replenishing those.

I am on the Panorama right now. It is extremely windy, which has caused the ship to be behind schedule. There is an equivalent of a 55 mph headwind. I don't know what else I can tell you.

Did they cancel the entire cruise? If not, what type of reimbursement are you expecting?

You realize that you could have asked for an additional portion...

Neither do the whales, on average, in the long run. It's math.

The goal of every cruise line is to sail full while maximizing total fare revenue. If it is getting close to the sail date and they have a lot of unsold cabins, they are going to lower fares. If they have very few unsold cabins, they are going to raise fares. It's as simple as that.

No. Yes. Yes.

You actually did not pay for both of them. You paid an additional charge to have your dinner in the specialty restaurant instead of the MDR.

It's going to waste one way or another, either on your plate or back in the kitchen as food that doesn't get served. At least "on your plate" doesn't create extra work for your server.

Agree. As I posted in a different thread, I am Platinum and boarded Panorama last Saturday. My boarding pass was carefully checked at every step of the embarkation process, as was everyone else's.

I am on the Panorama right now. People are in the pools. I can't answer your other question.

Maybe it's because no one ever ordered a bottle of Jager on Carnival to sip it in a genteel manner out of cordial glasses. 😁

I would be surprised if they actually said, "freshen up, etc." It is supposed to be "drop your bags and get out" . The entire process should take less than two minutes.

Jijis is $18 now

Update : They called people for boarding in this order - Diamond, Suites, Platinum, FTTF, and then zones. It didn't matter what time you got into the building. And starting with allowing us into the terminal, they checked our boarding passes every step of the way to ensure we had the proper priority. And as Platinums, we went straight to our rooms, dropped our luggage, and got out. We passed an officer in the hallway to our cabin, and he greeted us warmly and seemed to have no problem with us being there. In summary regarding the Panorama and Priority: Adherence to arrival time: Yes Boarding in Priority Type order: Yes Priority bag drop-off before 1:30: Yes

Actually, I am sitting in the priority lounge at Long Beach right now, and you are incorrect. They had separate lines for 10-10:30, 10:30-11, etc, and they are making everyone stand in the appropriate line whether your boarding pass says "priority" or not. They let all the 10 o'clock people in first. I was in that group, and I don't think they got to the next one until the time on the sign. Actually getting on ship might be a different story. Once boarding has started, I am assuming they will still let Priority people on first.

By getting part of their pay in stock, they are taking the same risk as every other stockholder. And it is even harder for them to sell it than the average stockholder 1) for PR/political reasons, and 2)it affects the share price because it must be disclosed publicly. Personally, I am all for incentive-based compensation for execs as opposed to receiving a high salary just for showing up.

Yes. That's the way corporations are supposed to work. Your "say" is proportional to the number of shares you hold.

The shareholders elect the board, which determines the salaries of the highest execs, who in turn, determine everyone else's salaries

People like to pop off about excutive pay and claim a company would be in much better financial shape if they didn't pay them so much, but I am an accountant by trade, and I do the math. The top execs at Carnival Corp. could work for free and it would only save a few pennies per passenger day. And it would be a rounding error compared to their billions of dollars in debt. People make those kinds of salaries because the shareholders believe the receive more than that in return. One wrong decision by an executive can cost a company hundreds of millions of dollars. Is it fair to give a tiny portion of that to the people who make better decisions? Absolutely .