silvercrikhix

Hands down, the 2 room Vista Suites on the Spirit Class, except deck 5 one roomers. The Steakhouse and Guys Burgers. The staff. Many kind hearted souls there.

We’ll be boarding our dog in Galveston during cruise. Any 1st hand experience/recommendations for Galveston Dog Boarding?

Thank you for the lovely review!

Understruck indeed. Much ado about not much. Yes, please…Guys should never close!!! ‘How about some killer breakfast Sammo’s?! The limited night options are pitiful at best on Carnival. May end up with less passengers soon, if they don’t get with it on the night eats.

Non-smokers now have the entire rest of the ship, albeit 2 small dedicated smoking areas & some casino area. (Casino only indoor place left for them) Smokers are left out in the bad weather … nobody complains about that. But yet you still harp and drone on & on. Bring it up over & over. Enjoy what you have already and quit trying to ram your opinion down everyone else’s throat. Take a.different route. Most recently on the Dream, and for example, there is a separate annex NS casino and also, half (which is often empty) of the larger casino…. still not enough to end the complaining. The smoke was hardly noticeable, it seems they have upgraded the air exchangers in the casino. And yes, some bars closed in my state when smoking was axed indoors. More importantly, what it really hurt was many establishments losing their lawful gambling areas…pull-tabs for example. This was due to not enough business. The many charities who received the profits from lawful gambling lost a lot of income. That is a fact. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m very sad that I’m probably too old to be on the planet when everyone quits smoking. I wish they would. The harping and drone will quickly and immediately turn to constant complaining about how extremely high your taxes go up. Smokers pay ALOT of taxes. Be careful what you wish for.

Some of you seem to keep saying, despise children, etc… We love all the little ones, but would jump at the chance for kids free cruising…sometimes. ‘Last cruise was just DH & I, we’d have booked adults only for that one. ‘Next cruise is 2 adult kids and a granddaughter, so not that cruise. 2023 cruise is adults only it looks like, so…kid free ship would be most excellent. We consider ourselves quite versible and would enjoy either cruise. ‘The Costa ships do afford them a chance to try something new. We hope they do!

We’d welcome an adults only option. A bit more elevated would be great too. We love the littles but a cruise without them would be more relaxing. Hopefully, it’d skip the hokey activities with a more adult focus!

Card in my pocket on a carabiner clipped to belt loop or small purse, backpack, string pack or whatnot. Nothing goes around my neck, ever! Don’t like stuff around my neck. Wrist would be ok, but not if they spend a fortune doing it, to pass on to passengers.

Yes, move along down under Ms Magica!

For those of you who go to the spa/gym showers, it’s great you enjoy doing that. If we’re paying for a cabin with a private bathroom, it better be usable without requiring contortions to use it. That’s absolutely greedy & entirely disrespectful to the passengers. Haven’t tried MG yet, but if that’s really the case when we do, we’ll be making some inquiries to several people. How would these tight quarters fair during an emergency? Take, take & take some more in unison with charging more, more and more. Good heavens!

A Spirit class full remodel would be welcome, however, my concern would be they’d mess with the Vista Suites and that would be catastrophic. Those 4th floor VS’s are the best suites we’ve sailed in. Not the fanciest, not the most Perk laden, not the largest….but still THE best. We’ve never been in a Captains Suite on Carnival or a Garden Villa on NCL so we haven’t tried them all yet, but have had large 2 bdrm, 2 bath suites and we’ll take the Vista Suite hands down, any time we can snag one!!

Wowee…Am I imaging things, or is there a man in the middle of the funnel in your 3rd picture?! Sure looks like it to me! If so, he’s my new spirit hero! Lol if not, I need an eye exam, pronto!

They best leave Miracle in LA. We just booked a Nov 2023 B2B in a 4th deck Vista Suite & connected Extended Aft Balcony. ‘Hope they don’t muck that up. I’ll be quite PO’d if that happens.

Another vote for diet/sugar free beverages. NCL would discover what a big market there is. We don’t buy sugar soda at all. Our refrigerator currently has: Lipton Diet Green Tea Mixed Berry - Starbucks Triple Shot Zero Sugar (hard to find) - A&W Root Beer Zero Sugar - Diet Mountain Dew - Diet 7-Up - Dr Pepper Zero Sugar ~We had a party this past wknd, so lots of options rt now ~ And Sugar Free French Vanilla Coffee Creamer. We’d really appreciate the creamer, ah, we can Dream….