Schoifmom

I don't know what your timetable is like, but we always put our luggage out the night before and then stay on the ship as long as possible. This makes getting an elevator easier. Also, you might consider using forward or aft elevators and going to the appropriate debarkation floor, as the central elevators always seem to be the ones that are the busiest. We did just debark off the Spirit and went down during early debarkation, though, and had no issues whatsoever.

No. Basically, removing prepaid grats is the same as removing the grats that are automatically applied to your S&S. This is ONLY if you have the prepaids removed while on board. If you remove them prior to sailing, then they will add the grats to your S&S account just like everyone else's.

The HUB is your best option for deck plans while you are on board.

^^^^ I came here to say this!

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If you've seen those recently, you shouldn't have. They did away with those post pandemic and they are never coming back.

I completely understand that. We are looking for a method of the hospital calling DH. They are not going to be using any messaging apps. I think that the method of simply turning off data and taking the hit for any phone calls received is likely the way to go.

I'm 99% positive I know the answer to this, but I wanted to see if anyone had any creative ideas. DH's brother is critically ill and DH is his medical POA. We leave for Alaska next week. Is there a good way to receive phone calls on board? I know that Carnival has disabled wifi calling and we don't want a huge Cellular at Sea bill for data (we have a wifi plan already purchased). Any creative ideas out there? ETA - We are on T-Mobile, if that matters to anyone.

Yeah, you can do that. You shouldn't do that. Leaving your luggage at your room when you aren't entitled to that privilege is just slowing things down for everyone. It's in the steward's way. They have to take the time to put that "in a safe spot" for you. Be more considerate, please.

It's back up now.

You don't get a certificate. It just sits on your account. You have 12 months to book, 24 months to sail.

Don't, I repeat, don't (I can't stress this enough) say to anyone at any time that he is not coming. If asked, simply state that he's coming later. I have seen anecdotal evidence that doing so will cause them to cancel him at the port and you would then be subject to a single supplement added to your S&S. Just keep the information to yourself.

You could also see if your hotel offers a late check-out.

Good for you. I'm assuming that you don't have any travel documents, medications, medical devices, a need to access sun screen, etc.

In Ketchikan, you can scooter over to the Lumberjack show and the arena is very scooter friendly.

Our experience with this has been on only one cruise line and only POST-RESTART, but at multiple ports. Again YMMV.

I would confirm that with Scootaround. On all of our cruises post-covid (on Carnival), DH has been able to pick his up before entering the port building and use it to board.

These aren't the bottle filling stations that you are thinking of. These have the push to dispense spout similar to what is pictured below.

I think we need to recognize the difference between lactose-free milk and alternative milks (coming from someone else who is lactose intolerant 🙂). Carnival does not have lactose-free milk; however, they do offer alternative milks. If he is set on lactose-free milk, he should buy the shelf-stable cartons and use those as his non-alcoholic beverage allowance. He can carry on up to 12 (per person) of 12oz or less each as long as they are in cans or cartons (no bottles). No pre-approval necessary unless he requires more than the allotted quantity.

Milk would fall into the "non-alcoholic beverage" portion of the beverage policy, meaning that you can carry on up to 12 cans/cartons of 12oz or less per person. I'm not sure where you were going with your comment about the difference in ports of departure.

No. I have seen a rare coupon code for Black Friday (I think), but never count on seeing one again.

That seems to be exactly how it was when I received an e-gift card as a refund from Carnival.

Yes, bottled water is included in your Cheers, which starts on day 2 from Galveston. You can get an alcoholic drink and a bottle of water at the same time (no cooling off period) from the bars. Your 15 drink per day limit is only for alcoholic drinks, so it does not apply to water. You can use your gift cards to purchase Cheers online. When you go to check out, simply enter your gift cards as the method of payment (you will likely have to toggle from credit card to gift card). I believe that there is a limit of 5 gift cards to be entered for an online purchase. You can also call the Fun Shops to order, but they used to not be able to take gift cards for purchases over the phone (I don't know if that has changed, as I've never done it).

Interesting. I just booked Seattle Express for my upcoming Alaskan. I did book online. It asked if we were traveling with a scooter and, based on your experience, I clicked yes just to see what happened. It then asked if the scooter was over 100 pounds. If yes, there was an extra charge noted. If no, then there was no extra charge. So, they are not charging extra just to transport a scooter, they are charging extra for handling and overweight item.

My guess is that they weren't offered Cheers at that specific price, what they were offered was a promotional rate for the cabin which included Cheers and was $400 more than the rate that they were originally looking at. We have taken advantage of one of those promotional rates in the past. They aren't offered to everyone and they don't get repeated very often.