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Still planning on leaving Saturday to cruise out Sunday!

we leave saturday. we're preparing by bringing our laptops, extra meds, loaded kindles and ipads.

11 minutes ago, marmac761 said:

I thought carnival was giving refunds for anyone booked up to May 31 or take a $200 obc.  It’s on another thread here. I am sure you will find it.

This was posted before that.

The Conquest was the second ship we sailed on, and we love it a lot. Great ship, easy to navigate. Excellent service. Glad you had a great time!

1 hour ago, matymil said:

Im leaving on the Magic on the 22nd so ive been following this story closely. Not sure how true this is but my TA said that there are rumors that Grand Turk may close its port for a month and Carnival would redirect its cruises (mostly to Nassau). Id rather go to Grand Turk as im sure most would but im just wondering how true this is because the more im reading into this story the more its seeming like Grand Turk is taking ZERO chances. 

I hope not!! I'm on the Pride Saturday and we chose our cruise because of Grand Turk! I really hope we get to go. The other two stops are Freeport (which I'm not excited about) and Princess Cays.

33 minutes ago, siestakeys04 said:

My daughter and a group of friends are doing a bachelorette cruise but 2 girls are backing out one with a small child and the other per dr advice told not to cruise because she is in her first trimester. The rest of the young ladies plan on enjoying theirs too.

Interestingly, children are only getting the coronavirus at like a 2% rate.

11 minutes ago, xostacylee said:

Unfortunately we've pre-paid gratuities and already purchased the drink package. So this + the $195 of OBC I've already received for the price drop will most likely go towards photos. It's my bachelorette, so I'm giving myself the freedom to buy ALLL the photos haha. 

You can remove prepaid gratuities and get a refund and use the OBC towards that, if you wanted. Otherwise, enjoy the photos 🙂

16 minutes ago, john91498 said:

I've been trying all morning to call Carnival, but have been unsuccessful. Cell and landline, I get a "Sorry, your call did not go though"

Calling to see if there were further price reductions, but no luck.

I'd be tempted to at least wait until tomorrow, although I know price reductions can be a fluid situation. I am sure they are inundated today.

46 minutes ago, shof515 said:

i have 200 dollars for my cruise in may. i already prepaid the gratuities, i booked my private excursions. i can not drink..i am sailing on the legend which does not that many places to spend money compare to other ships

I would totally get a massage then! Or use it to pay gratuities and get a refund and put $200 towards your next cruise.

for sure drink. we don't buy cheers (although tempting) so it'll be great to have a drink or two each day and not worry about incurring extra costs.

35 minutes ago, Willman said:

That looks great.  I have a March booking but have not received this email yet.  Anyone else?

On March 15th and no word yet.

1 minute ago, cmukid87 said:

I am pretty sure you qualify for the OBC here.  As long as you aren't cancelling it should be available to you.  I don't think this type of OBC is rate specific.

I apologize, I wasn't clear. I do get the $200 that they're offering now, but I don't get any OBC for the rate drops.

36 minutes ago, cmukid87 said:

Really, really regretting not booking the Spring Break cruise now.  Between the price dropping like a rock and having $300 obc per room, it would be our cheapest cruise vacation BY FAR.  And now flights are dropping like a rock.  SMH.

We literally booked our spring break cruise last week, but the rate we have doesn't allow for OBC. Sucks! And we use a cheap airline (Spirit) so no way to get any credits on flights either lol. Ohhh well.

Heading on a cruise I just booked last week, leaving 15th... so yes I'd go on a free one lol. The Bahamas is free and clear of the virus, and while there's some risk of quarantine, I personally feel it is fairly minimal.

Sailing on the pride on the 15th, booked through Carnival website. No email yet, but I'm sure it's coming. We just booked last week, so this is a nice surprise on a cruise we were still planning on taking.

I keep hoping something will pop up for our cruise in a week and a half. There's over 15 rooms left and half are suites. 

20 minutes ago, waterbug123 said:

 

Even departing from Port Canaveral in the winter or very early spring it can be chilly, so there's no guarantee of warmer weather until you get all the way to the Bahamas. 

I know there's no guarantee, just curious what is more likely. 

Headed out on the 15th on the pride out of baltimore. Looks like we chose wisely this time; no reported cases there and the ports to the Bahamas have no issues either. We'll just be diligent hand washers at the airport.

We've never cruised out of Baltimore; always done the Southern ports (Tampa, Miami, NOLA), so I'm curious how that first sea day will go. I know the ship moves pretty quickly into the open water, so will it warm up enough on Day 1 so laying by the pool? Or is there a chance for chilly weather?

Looking at the 10 day forecast, Baltimore should be in the upper 50s on the 15th when we depart.

29 minutes ago, jperry2011 said:

 

Hmm this is what I've been reading about

https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g147428-d1179502-i180460165-Princess_Cays-Eleuthera_Out_Islands_Bahamas.html

Just now, jperry2011 said:

Yeah I'm not sure about pink sand but this was like a half mile from the ship.

Oh thanks!

1 minute ago, jperry2011 said:

The bike ride was like 45 mins and you got to see some different sites and a rock beach that was neat. Otherwise the regular beach was nice had alot of chairs and some shops.

The pink sand appears to be on the opposite side from port so I was just reading that a dune buggy was one way to see that. Someone else said you could rent a golf cart.

49 minutes ago, jperry2011 said:

We did some small excursion at princess cay last year, the bike ride thing...

I read multiple reviews on the dune buggy rides and nobody was impressed. Sounds like old golf carts you ride on.

Thanks, maybe we just need to plan on being at the beach. 

1 hour ago, indygirl76 said:

@Saint Greg has the Fun Times up on his site - saintgregtravel.com. 🙂 Are you sailing soon? I'm on the March 15th!

I'm on the 15th too!

I see princess offers dune buggy tours for princess cays, but carnival doesn’t. I’ve checked several shore excursion sites but since it’s a private island I’m not finding much. We were hoping to see the Eleuthera side and the pink hued sands. Any tips?