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11 minutes ago, Lipz said:

 

Love these tips. Thank you so much. Since we don't sail her until August 2023, hopefully all those kinds of kinks will be worked out. We're old school and love the set time dining. We tried late dining once but didn't like it, so it's always the early dining for us. We also enjoy trying the new specialty dining and if the ship has a steak house we go at least once.

Since you are early set time dining people, need to give you a head's up.  Chibang and Cucina del Capitano are park of the MDR as an extension on the Mardi Gras.  If you have any time dining, you can go to either of those venues whenever you want.  But, if you have set dining, you can't go there until 745, which of course is much later than you wish to eat.  

21 hours ago, BennyBrun said:

Not proper attire for the cafe promenade at all!!  This should not be allowed!

That's the husband of the thong twirler at the salad bar!

56 minutes ago, Retiredmedic said:

Never been on the Horizon as I live 20 minutes from the port of Galveston. Adding more money to cost of travel and extra days of time off for girlfriend just to cruise the Horizon?

Next year you'll have the Jubilee as well as the Prima to cruise on.

6 hours ago, pc_load_letter said:

 

These comments are do dumb. Can't believe in 2022 people still post "if you don't like it, don't purchase it" crap. Someone can enjoy Carnival and still be annoyed, not like, or even hate some features and still enjoy a cruise.

 

These replies are simply dumb. It was the same response I got when I posted on John Healds FB about poor late night dining options. People just need to grow up.

As they like to say south of the Mason/Dixon.......Bless Your Heart.

17 hours ago, vwrestler171 said:

Very impressive to bring back a full fleet without making sure they had adequate staff to operate them?  Poor management if you ask me.

I'm sure the bean counters and beards decided that having the entire fleet up and running and generating cash flow with a reduced capacity crew is better than having 80% of the fleet up and running with a full crew.  The dollars lost because experienced cruisers are upset about temporary cutbacks will effect the bottom line less than only having 80% of the ships sailing with everybody happy.  Since their marketing strategy is mainly for the blues and reds anyway, this strategy would fall in line with that thinking.

17 hours ago, Badfinger said:

 

It has been our tradition to select 1200-1230 check-in and immediately head to Cucina for a somewhat peaceful and definitely relaxed and uncrowded lunch, bypassing the gastric mob scene on display in the Lido.  

Just to educate you, it's not that way on the Mardi Gras since Cucina and Chibang are closed on embarkation day for lunch.

On 5/17/2022 at 11:36 AM, WKUTopperFan said:

This is a joke. My November cruise on Celebrity Apex is looking better by the minute. 

That goes without saying because the Apex is like a Lexus.  The closest in the Carnival fleet would be the Mardi Gras, similar to a Toyota Avalon. 

The buffet on the Apex contains made to order three types of eggs Benedicts, made to order five types of creme brulee on French day and at least two types of grilled to order proteins at lunch.

On 5/17/2022 at 11:19 AM, Retiredmedic said:

Expecations for Carnival are fairly low anyway, how much lower should we lower them?

How about Dollar Tree of the Seas replacing Walmart of the Seas?

On 5/17/2022 at 8:45 AM, Tom-n-Cheryl said:

 

Now, if they could just give us the $50 OBC ahead of time, to put towards CHEERS !!

 

Tom

Just apply it to your gratuities.

On 5/17/2022 at 10:38 AM, Retiredmedic said:

Not saying it's a benefit, but it is not a great loss either. 

You obviously never ate the Tomahawk Pork Chop at Cucina on the Horizon.  Best value in the fleet.

6 hours ago, Glock said:

Do you think that Cruise lines will open up to the millions of us un-injected? And if so, when?
Please keep this polite, not interested in your opinions of the Covid vaccination.
Many thanks, 
982 days without cruising, 

Carmen & Ian
 

983 days and counting....need the majority of the ports that the cruise lines visit to change their protocols before the cruise lines follow suit.

Could be 1200 days and counting or higher for you.

2 hours ago, Blur said:

I am jealous.  I can eat but two apps and two entrees with no dessert is my limit.

You need a hollow leg or a great metabolism!

10 hours ago, BennyBrun said:

So a lady was standing in front of the salad station waving the thongs around...

Was she doing a striptease at the salad station?  After waving her thong, did she happen to twerk her nekkid butt? 🤣

Benny.  On the Oasis with the UDP, do Chop's, 150 or Giovanni's allow a second entree?

2 hours ago, Max and Ruby said:

 

It is my goal for my next cruise to try the English Trifle! 🙂

June 5, 2022 at about 100 pm I will be enjoying it for the first time on the Oasis in the Windjammer (assuming of course they have it on embarkation day)

29 minutes ago, taglovestocruise said:

Not worth it at all.  Whole bus load went directly to guest services and Royal had no problem giving a full refund for bus ride and price of admission to Disney as a refund to cc on file. 

How can you possibly say it was not worth it at all?  You got to spend over 2.5 hours at Disney for free.  You made out better than spending 150.00+ for 5 hours.

7 minutes ago, mek said:

Sorry, but I have to laugh at your continued assumptions concerning my motives.

 

Quite frankly being unselfish had nothing to do with me getting vaccinated. I believe in the vaccines and  my motives were purely selfish - I did it to protect myself, (and possibly a little unselfishness popped in because I also wanted to protect my husband.)

 

Apparently you haven't been following my posts because I have never said anything about masking.  While I do think pre cruise testing has become pointless, my biggest concern is being quarantined and not being allowed to stay in my cabin - with a balcony.  Yes, I'm very selfish when it comes to that and I'm not sure I want to risk the possibility of that happening.

 

 

I guess I mistakenly assumed that the protocol you were against was masking since that was the hill that many decided to plant their flag on. 

The quarantine possibility is so slim to me I would not even think about it.  I did 12 days in January with about 1100 passengers, did 14 days in February with 5000 passengers and 14 days in April with 2800 passengers.  40 days in total so far and another 40 days booked later this year.  Quarantine possibility not even a concern to me.

6 hours ago, rudeney said:

Let's see...you pay for the DBP based on the advertised brands only to discover they are unavailable to drink, yet there it is sitting on the shelf, but you can't drink it on the ship?  That's a very clever form of price gouging with bait-and-switch thrown in to reinforce it. . 

Profits 101 according to RCI

On 5/14/2022 at 10:49 PM, smarcbie said:

And yet royal keeps raising the unlimited beverage package price while knowing there's a supply shortage...

They need to make up for the billions they bled because of the pandemic.

1 hour ago, ray98 said:

  You can still hit the pub on NCL and get the full menu 24/7. 

I will fully agree with you regarding the asinine decision by Carnival not to have anything available after 10:00 besides pizza.  

But, there are 3 menus at the pub on NCL.  One is breakfast which I believe is 6 or 7 to 11.  The second is lunch/dinner, which goes from 11 to 11 and the third is the late night menu, which has about 60% of the full menu and has great options like their wings, which really hit the spot about 1230 in the morning.

4 hours ago, mek said:

Really? It's amazing how you jump to a conclusion without knowing me.

 

FYI - I had my first Pfizer jab in March 2021 and the second shot 3 weeks later.  Since then I have had 2 boosters.  My objections to what is currently going on with protocols has absolutely nothing to do with being vaccinated.  

Glad you were unselfish and got jabbed and boosted.  If having to get tested and possibly wearing a mask is too much for you, that's your decision.

I cruised for 14 days last month and the only time I had to wear a mask was in the terminal.  Mask wearing on board was optional. Big difference from our cruises in January and February when masks were required on board at times.  

Restrictions are loosening up. Masks are now optional when flying.  I personally hate wearing them and the only time I wear them at home is at the Dr's.  But, having to wear them in the terminal is a small price to pay in order to cruise.  Obviously it, or another protocol, is what is holding you back from cruising.  

1 hour ago, BennyBrun said:

Day 4

 

I do miss not having a comedian onboard… always a good laugh with the comedians!

You'll have six of them doing over 50 shows over the course of the week next January on the Celebration.

11 minutes ago, mek said:

 

I'll be 72 in July, but I'll be darned if I will be held hostage by what I consider to be unnecessary protocols in order to cruise.  Like it or not, I may not cruise again unless rules change.

Learned a long time ago that I don't make the rules, I just play the game.  As long as the rules to cruise are what they are, you're relegated to land based vacations.  There are many great all inclusives out there, particularly on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

Your other option of course is to cross over the line in the sand and get the jab so you would be able to cruise, but we both know you're too stubborn to do that.

On 5/2/2022 at 8:44 PM, Ellaleah said:

I phoned Carnival a couple of weeks ago and was told that you cannot use your OBC to even prepay gratuities.  I thought that I had read here that you could.  They were firm.

You can't use it to prepay gratuities, but you can use to pay gratuities once you're on board.