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7 hours ago, pajazz28 said:

On my cruise on Celebration later this month. Is stay that it is for people with little to no mobility. Is that correct?

There are actually two versions of the Behind the Fun Tour now available for purchase online.  One is an "accessible" one for $50 PP (must complete an attestation stating the person has mobility/accessibility restrictions) and the other is the "ultimate" Behind the Fun Tour for &130 PP.

2 hours ago, khewston said:

I know you prepay for tipping at the Chef's table, but I'm curious if you tip extra?

We have in the past, however, with the new price increases (especially for those ships going from $99 to $150) we will more than likely do the auto gratuity only.  

We are booked on this cruise as well.  Second Leg of a B2B on the Venezia.  First time sailing on her and we will be cruising with two other couples on this leg.  Looking forward to it!

We are booked for this cruise as well.  First leg of a B2B on the Venezia.  First time sailing on her.  Looking forward to it!

1 hour ago, Linsuesue said:

   I am booked on the Carnival Spirit to go to Alaska in July 2024. On July 14th of 2023 there were 59 excursions available. Shortly after that there were 64 excursions. I know there will be more added-like the Tracy Arm Fjord excursion…, but today when I checked there were only 24 excursions available. I have checked the port schedules for our cruise and there will be many big ships in each port each day. I dont know if this is a website glitch, or an indication of the extreme competition there will be for tour operators. Is anybody else going to Alaska next year noticing the same decrease in excursion availability?

Other sections of the CCL web pages were affected, ever since the "glitch" occurred on the CCL website, involving the drink package. We have five booked cruises between now and Feb 2024.  The available excursions for all of these were affected by varying degrees.  Same with Spa treatment options.  We did check our "booking and order details"  to  ensure nothing was "lost" regarding previously purchased items/excursions, etc.  Everything appears to be intact in that regard.  It is unclear when the other "glitches" will be addressed and corrected.  Hope this clarifies things a bit for you.

We sailed a nine day New England/Canada Cruise from 13-22 October 2022.  Perfect time of year for the changing of the colors.  Weather was cool (as expected).

11 hours ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said:

 

Keep an eye out, and switch, if a deck 4 Vista suite becomes available -- largest balcony in my experience.

 

Tom

True enough!  Will be in a deck 4 Vista Suite next year for a B2b2B to Mexico & Hawaii. 🙂

We did a Vista Suite on the Miracle for a full Panama Canal transit from San Diego to Miami.  Best seats in the house.  No crowding to get good photos of the transit and surrounding areas  Lots of space to hang out in.  Well worth the cost.

12 minutes ago, angela12345 said:

Registered before you board ?  How ?

The classes are located in the Specialty Dining Section.

8 hours ago, barante said:

 We booked April's trans-Atlantic from Tampa to Barcelona before realizing that the Carnival Pride will then sail immediately for weeks at drydock.

 We have never been on a bad cruise. But should we be worried about prep work being done and areas of the ship being closed off, or restaurants running out of items?

     This is not a Pride specific question but relates to other Carnival ships going to drydock as well.

 

We sailed on the Miracle for her Panama Canal Full transit Journey's Cruise from San Diego to Miami, from 01 - 13 Feb 2020.  Immediately following the cruise, the Miracle entered dry dock for two weeks.  No pre dry dock activities took place during the course of this cruise.  Everything was peaceful onboard, even though there were maintenance technicians on the cruise with us walking down the areas to be worked on, in an effort to get a sense of what was going to be taking place during the dry dock.  There have been other cruises in the past where pre dry dock activities did take place, causing a lot of noise and closed venues.  We were fortunate.

On 12/15/2022 at 4:31 AM, grimpil said:

We are doing a back to back in Feb on the panorama and wondering if there is a walkable place to pick up wine nearby on our turn around day. Did anyone have experience with corking fees in MDR? We are flying in the day before and staying at the Hotel Royal in Long Beach, very reasonable price  so a little nervous about that one but we will see

Here are the closest package/liquor stores to the Long Beach Cruise Terminal.  None are very close and walking to/from could prove problematic for you.  Uber/Lyft/Taxi may be your best option.   https://www.google.com/maps/search/liquor+store+by+Carnival+Cruise+Terminal+-+Long+Beach/@33.76244,-118.1998104,5878m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!2m1!6e6

8 hours ago, JOJO351969 said:

Can any smoker who has been on the panarama lately please tell me where you are allowed to smoke please. 
thank you

This came directly from the Carnival website:  

Smoking Areas On Carnival Panorama™

Cigarette smoking (including electronic cigarettes and personal vaporizers) are permitted in the following areas:

• Panorama Casino: There is no smoking in the casino unless seated and playing; it is not allowed at the casino bar or in the entire area when closed. 
• Outdoors: Smoking is permitted in designated areas on Deck 5 (port side and starboard side, forward) and Deck 11 (starboard side, aft and forward).  
• Note: Cigar and tobacco pipes are only permitted at the above outdoor smoking areas. 
• Note: On embarkation and debarkation day, smoking is not allowed outdoors while the ship is refueling. Please consider selecting a later Arrival Appointment to minimize any inconvenience on embarkation day.

5 hours ago, hctraveler said:

New to Carnival so I was wondering how formal are formal nights on the Glory out of New Orleans for a 7 night cruise?  And how many are there?  We have 3 port days in a row.  Mahogany Bay, Belize and Cozumel.  Days 2, 3 and 7 are sea days.

 

There are two Elegant Nights on the Glory seven day sailings (Sunday-Sunday).  The will be on Monday and Friday evening.  We sailed on her in January 2022 for a B2B2B and those were the scheduled days. Dress code is not strict, however, one will be turned away if not properly attired (in other words, no swimming suits, cut offs, jeans with holes, tank tops and the like).

Carnival Kitchen Classes also showed up today for our November 2023 cruise.  Looks like Carnival is making up for lost time. 🙂

Try exploring this website to see if it meets your needs/criteria:

https://nationaltuxedorentals.com/rental-tuxedo-jackets/by-occassion/cruises

1 minute ago, lasvegascruising said:

Nope.  I can see all of them for my upcoming trip, Dec. 3, 2022, on the Panorama. I do see many that are "sold out" but still a few available.

Do you recall how soon they populated the Specialty Dining section in your booking?

2 hours ago, allinwonderland said:

Okay I'm not the only one! I was hoping to do one of these classes when I'm on the Panorama again in January but I've been stalking the planner waiting for them to show up and nada. Someone in my FB roll call posited that maybe they're discontinuing this service and I didn't think much of it at first, but now I'm worried...

Our understanding from other posts that we have seen on a variety of boards, is that the Carnival Kitchen Classes are not populating a person's booking until closer to their cruise date.  It is kind of odd though.  When we originally booked a cruise on the Panorama in 2019 for a cruise in 2020 (before COVID cancelled everything), the classes and all of the other venues were available for purchase months in advance of the cruise.  I posted a query on one of the Panorama cruise boards to see if anyone has any insight on the matter.  Waiting to see what shakes out.

13 hours ago, renysmom said:

Staying in a Spa Suite cabin on the Magic and one of the amenities listed is " Unique Welcome Ritual".  Anyone know what this is?  I am assuming priority boarding but I have never seen this term before.

 

Thanks

We've stayed in Spa Suites on the Vista and Horizon on a few occasions.  We each received a scrubber and some salt scrub, but never had what one would call a "Unique Welcome Ritual."  We even asked about it on each occasion and were either given blank looks or told that there was no ritual.

If one were to compare prices, CCL internet packages still continue to be less expensive than other cruise lines, with respect to their internet offerings.  Not going to debate which is better, as internet experience varies widely with a ships location (regardless of cruise line), weather and number of folks attempting to access a given internet plan at any one time.  Starlink was recently tested out on one of RCCL's ships and the service is supposed to go fleetwide sometime down the road.  It is unclear when that will take place, how many choices one will have or how much it would cost per person.  It is also unclear what steps CCL is taking to "improve" their fleets internets experience either (other than accessing additional satellites that may be available to them in any given region of the world).

7 hours ago, reeb4 said:

Ok, educate me!  Converter plug = the thin I bought at REI several years ago that plugs into the euro outlet and has traditional American outlet slots to plug into...Voltage converter = ???

 

And thank you.

Get something like this (we have two of them)

:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077XRXRZR/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=luxurytrave03-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B077XRXRZR&linkId=125e93d5ae0f0093ff8d94997d1b0eea&fbclid=IwAR0-ITFx6GEy-G9cPKcW4MsN_Ta9Nj06cT11VvL6txGu9gcykn46B2Bfgy4     

Just include gratuities into the pricing, like Australia and other countries do.  Problem solved.  If an individual wishes to provide additional, individual gratuities to individuals they deem earned it during the course of their cruise/vacation, then so be it.  If an individual is unhappy with the service provided, then notify the appropriate management staff.  Let the management deal with it.

58 minutes ago, ShakyBeef said:

What ship?  The Vista Suites we have booked (on Pride, a Spirit Class ship) has a maximum occupancy of 2.

All Spirit Class ships and their Aft Wrap Vista Suites are configured the same-stateroom-wise.  Deck 7 has one stateroom accommodating three passengers and deck 8 has two staterooms that accommodate three passengers.  All of the other decks can only accommodate two passengers per Aft Wrap Vista Suite.

48 minutes ago, Dwright826 said:

The ship we were looking at booking was the miracle 

Forgot to mention....go with the Aft Wrap Vista Suite.  Hands down.....more balcony space, better views and less $$$ to book it.  We have been in the Aft Wrap Vista Suites on the Spirit and Miracle.  Were in them for our cruises to Hawaii and Panama Canal full transit.  Best views in the house and no crowding the rails for photo ops.  Will be doing the same in 2023 and 2024 on the Miracle for Alaska and Hawaii. 

39 minutes ago, Dwright826 said:

The ship we were looking at booking was the miracle 

Aft Wrap Vista Suites on the Spirit Class ships can only accommodate two or three passengers, depending upon which deck the Aft Wrap Vista Suite is located on.  You can find that out by going to the respective ships deck plans map, select the specific stateroom and look at the information there.  It will state what the maximum passenger capacity is for that room. Decks 4, 5, 6, only accommodate two passengers per room.  There is one stateroom on deck 7 and two staterooms on Deck 8 that accommodate three passengers.  Hope this helps.

48 minutes ago, Dwright826 said:

Does anyone know why it won't let me book a Vista suite for 4 people. It will let me book it for 2 or 3 people but not 4. I can even put one person in the Vista suite, add an interior room and put 3 people in it. Going the two room route is even a little cheaper. Anyone know?

Aft Wrap Vista Suites on the Spirit Class ships (if this is the type of stateroom you are referring to in your post) can only accommodate two or three passengers, dependent upon stateroom location.  You can find out this information on the respective ships deck maps. Select the stateroom and the Information contained therein will let you know what the max capacity is for a given stateroom.  If the stateroom is for two, then the couch does not convert to a bed.  If the  stateroom is for three, then the couch converts to a single bed.  I do not know if CCL would allow for a crib type setup, should the "fourth" person be an infant.  Hope this helps.