EllieinNJ

Thanks. I thought I remembered someone saying they booked at JiJi's but when I looked I didn't see it so thought it was all sold out.

On our Venezia cruise in February JiJi's is sold out every day for dinner. Do they do lunch?

When we were on the Anthem back in Jan. 2022 they still had the sit down dinner which we had to make a reservation for. Are reservations no longer needed if it is a buffet only?

Jamie. Can you find out if they have any mah jong sets on board. Thanks.

This will be our second time in Nassau. We did the bus tour the first time. It was meh. We decided we would walk to Junkanoo Beach because we didn't want to pay for a beach club for only a few hours. But now my knee is acting up and do not think I can walk that far. Now I read there is another free beach at Goodman's Bay where you can take a public bus to from the port. Has anyone been there? Does it compare with Junkanoo? Is it as crowded?

Can you explain how much and from whom you have to charge in order to get the 20,000 points. Is there a minimum? Does it have to be Carnival related? I looked at the T&C but wasn't clear to me.

Because I would use that cash to individually pay my steward, waiters and anyone else who helped me during the cruise, in addition to the DSC .

I always got my OBC refunded from NCL, Princess and Royal Caribbean. I was new to Carnival and now MSC so I didn't know that they don't refund it.

I learned my lesson on Carnival. I had a $600 OBC from Carnival which I used up $500 on excursions. I also had $300 from my TA. I used $50 in the casino. When they told me all OBC is not refundable I was furious. I guess I could have cashed it all out in the casino. What we did was buy gift cards at Cherry on Top, the candy store.

My TA gives me a choice of OBC on the ship or cash back which is sending me a check after the cruise.

Funny that you mentioned this. We always book through a TA or have one transferred to the TA. When they had the 50% off for their anniversary last year we booked through the website. When we spoke to our TA to have it transferred to them she said it wasn't worth doing because they couldn't offer me any OBC because the cruise was too inexpensive. Same for the Radiance which we are taking right before the Panorama.

I've been trying for months for my Panorama cruise in April. At first I got nothing. Then the last few times I got an error message. I wrote to John Heald about it and he said to call Carnival. If anyone gets more info please let us know.

mking8288 Hi Henry. I still read and enjoy all your trip reports except you lose me sometimes with your technical internet descriptions. I see you are going on the Prima in December and would have loved to go on that cruise, especially since the price came down to reasonable but we are sailing the MSC Miraviglia in October and the Carnival Venezia in February and cannot take that much time off from work. I really enjoy sailing out of the NY/NJ area without flying. I got really tired of the away class of ships and I don't see any more jewel class coming to the area. If you look at the MSC forum you can see so many converts from NCL.

Thoroughly enjoyed your review I find the prices of Greenland cruises very overpriced so if they ever come down I might try one. That said, I'm following another Greenland review on the Royal Caribbean board on the Jewel of the Sea. Hope they make it to Greenland.

Weird to find an MSC review in an NCL forum. We, too usually cruise NCL but after our Feb. 2023 cruise to Bermuda on the Getaway which turned into a cruise to nowhere we decided to look elsewhere and are booked in October on the Miraviglia. We would really like to try the Prima class. We still have one Cruise Next left plus the $200 FCC from that Feb. cruise. We are now all booked up through Feb. 2025 on several other cruise lines and hope that the 2025 prices of the Prima and/or Viva come down.

You might also try to go with an advocate agency like the Elliott Org. https://www.elliott.org/

Your Alaska cancellation is big news for all the you tubers. Looking forward to the rest of your review.

Enjoying your review.

On an excursion in Aruba last year we decided on doing a UTV because we wanted to try it once in our lifetime and we had enough OBC to pay for it. They made us sign waivers excluding them from any damages or Injuries that might occur. We had to ride on the city streets for about 2p minutes before we got to the course. We were suppose to do 25 to 30 mph but the caravan was doing 40 to 50. Should have realized what was to come. I'm glad we returned in one piece.

I also think it depends on how close you are to your sailing for internet. When we booked our October 11 day sailing last year the internet was $114 per device. When I check now it is $174 per device .

Now that is a new one for me. Very cute. After 7 days on my 21 day Pride cruise in May I asked my steward to stop making the towel animals because it was taking up too much room. He seemed pretty happy to comply.

Some of the private excursion vendors ask you to pay cash for balance after you pay deposit on cc. I have to bring $100 plus deposit for jeep in Cozumel and $60 plus deposit for golf carts in Costa Maya plus tips for all my excursions.

Our FB group on the Miraviglia is having a Halloween party and dressing up. Not sure if it's through MSC or not.

Still not sure about some excursions I want to take for my October cruise. May want to use OBC. If I wait to get onboard will it cost more?

I just booked the Liberty for next September and the Odyssey for Feb. 2025 and got great balcony group rates through my TA. Cheaper than MSC or Carnival.