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Thankful to find another of your great reviews ! Rereading to pretend I will be cruising tomorrow ! Thanks.

One quick and probably stupid question, are the braised short ribs pork or beef ? Thanks. I love looking at the menus and your food porn pictures !! 

Thanks so much for this review ! I am working my way back through all your reviews as I try to keep my mind on cruising again when this quarantine business is over ! Do you still have one scheduled in the future? I am supposed to be on the Madrid Gras Dec. 5. if they are sailing by then. I would love to sail with you some day. You have such a positive attitude and such a wonderful writing style ! You make me laugh and that is a gift !!  Thank you again !!

Hi, Jamman,

iam rereading your review during the quarantine and dreaming of what cruising  is like when we finally get to cruise gain ! I love your reviews and rereading them takes me away to a better place. We have now had four cruises cancelled and are hoping our b2b in December on the Madi Gras . Thank you for all the time you put into writing this !

Hello, Wildra ! I am rereading this surfing the virus shutdown as i desperately needed a good laugh. Thank you so much for the time you spend doing your reviews ! You have such a fantastic sense of humor and are a great storyteller ! I only find three reviews listed in your expanded signature, but i think there must be more. Can you post a link to any earlier ones, please ? Thank you !!

We are now way into this stay at home rule due to the virus and I have had two cruises cancelled because of it. I needed to read something to make me laugh and remind me of how wonderful cruising is. Right away I looked up one of your reviews. I have read them all , but need to reread them to brighten my day. I hope you are well and safe, thanks for the uplift !

I know all the changes are not Carnival’s fault. I think they do a great job of compensating  people and are very good to the customers. It was a disappointment, but out of anyone’s control. I hope by May the virus will have run its course and things will get back to normal. I do believe Carnival treats it customers better than other lines.

We were scheduled to sail out of Charleston on March 16, then we got an email from. Arrival saying that those 70 and over , that’s me, would have to bri g a doctor’s note saying they had none of a long list of conditions, including diabetes, which I have. I was so disappointed . I am just praying our TA on June 3 will be able to sail and they will let me on it !!

Did you go to that link posted here and print the form for the refund? How and where did you send it ?

My husband and I are supposed to sail out of Charleston on March 16 and I am 70 plus I have controlled diabetes ( I Don’t need insulin). So, does all this mean that even if my doctor writes that I am in good health I can’t sail? This will be the third cruise I have had cancelled by Carnival in the past six months. We were scheduled on the inaugural cruise   of the Mardi Graw and the TA on it. Now we are losing this cruise, too !! The days from this would have allowed us to become platinum on our Legend TA in June, if that cruise even goes through. Now we won’t make platinum.

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this review! I really enjoyed it !

This is such a great review. ! I love your thoroughness and your great pictures ! Please don’t stop. I see that you last posted on Japan. 11 and it is now Jan. 18. I hope this isn’t the end, because this is so good ! Thank you for taking the time to write this !

We were also booked on the first two Mardi Gras sailings . I actually never got a letter saying they had been cancelled, but thankfully, I read it on the fb site. I was totally depressed for that whole weekend. I was so looking forward to being on that new ship and seeing all those new, for me, ports. I was excited that you and your wife would be on it as well, since I have read all your reviews . My husband nd I are on the TA legend in June at least. I am anxious to read this review of the Legend. Thanks for writing .

I was booked on the inaugural cruise out of Copenhagen and the TA b2b. It would have been my first to those European ports and my first b2b. To say I am disappointed is a huge understatement ! I am scrambling now to find something else. I really wanted to be sailing in August, but would never do the Caribbean that time of year. Oh, well, there must be something else.

I have never sailed on this ship and am very interested 8n your review. Also, I always love food porn ! We are from the Asheville area.

Thanks again, Jamman for such a wonderful review. I was so impressed with your summation of the ship. You have the ability to point out the pros and cons without being negative or mean. You did a fabulous job. They truly ought to put you on the payroll at Carnival. 

Your writing style along with Patty’s pictures make the review seem as though the readers are there with you. I have been reading your reviews for years and if possible, they only get better !i can’t begin to imagine all the hours you put into these reviews, but please know they are greatly appreciated ! Thank you and Patty again.

by the way, don’t worry about your cataract surgery. I had it done on both my eyes when I was only 50, but it made a world of difference ! Wishing you luck. 

Jamman , I just love looking at your pictures of the sail away from NYC ! I will be sailing from there in June on the TA to Europe. I have never seen the Statue of Liberty in person or Ellis Island.i am so excited and your pictures just fuel my excitement ! Thank you so much !! 

I am so glad your review is here ! I have been waiting for it, as I love looking at Patti’s pictures and reading your interesting account ! So sorry you were sick. Thank you and Patti in advance for taking the time to do another fantastic review ! 

Where will you post your pictures? I will definitely want to see them. I have studied much about Iceland since we will be stopping there on our cruise. We will have 12 hours in port. I know the Golden Circle is supposed to be fantastic, but I love architecture , also, and there is a church in Reykjavik that looks amazing both inside and out. Have you seen pictures of it? You could do amazing pictures of it!! (Just a suggestion!) 

So very glad you are back on cc ! When and how are you going to Iceland? I am going on the Carnival Legend TA that will stop in Greenland, Iceland, the Shetland Islands, Belfast, cCork, and finally ending in Dover. I wish you would be on that cruise to take pictures! You have such a gift with photography ! 

Lasekeye, I am excited that someone else is doing the back to back ! I keep looking at pictures of the interior Mardi Gras and it looks so different from Carnival’s other ships ! I LOVE the new design in the staterooms. The things they have added make so much sense !! 

How many points do you need to become diamond? 

Thank you! I will definitely be off at all the ports on the first leg ! Can’t wait !!

Hello, everyone!  I am so excited because I finally booked my first b2n and it is on the Mardi Gras ! The first leg of the trip is from Copenhagen to South Hampton, then the second leg is from South Hampton to New York! I love the pictures that I have seen of the Mardi Gras and her cabins look amazing ! I will have just retired in June , however my husband is still working so he isn’t able to get the time off. As a result, I will be doing my first solo sailing. I am a bit nervous about that ! I will become platinum on an earlier cruise and that also excites me. Any advise for me ?

Thank you so much for taking the time and energy to do this fantastic review ! I felt like I went along with you. Patti’s pictures were fabulous. Thanks again. I can’t wait to read your review of the new Sunrise. We were supposed to sail on her in Oct., but things came up and we had to cancel. I will love seeing the pictures of it.