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All 5 of the cards are already in someone else's cart 😉

At Long Beach I had to apply it once onboard, which was no big deal. I applied it at the sail and sign kiosk. Guest services can apply gift cards also.

True that. I would be willing to bet most Carnival food, however, is chock full of sodium.

Privacy and an extra bathroom means I would choose two rooms over a suite.

I have not but it looks pretty good schedule wise. I want to check out La Paz.

I found one for April 2025 so I am happy enough for now. I like to walk around Cabo and a couple weeks ago I went and we left at 2:00 so I didn't make my pilgrimage to Cabo Wabo this time. I wake up a bit later and by the time we got into Port it was almost 11 am. I love the blue waters of the Caribbean but Long Beach is so easy to sail from for me I end up on this cruise a lot. Still a fun trip despite the number of times I have done it. Actually when there are two days to come back there is 57 hours of time from 9 pm after leaving Puerto Vallarta to 7 am arrival time. That would come out to a reasonable 16 knots average speed. I think we had more issue getting to Cabo going down we have arrived late a few times.

8 out of my 10 Mexican Riviera cruises have been Cabo first. It has never been an issue getting back on time and in fact we used to pull into Long Beach early in the am around 6. Protected waters has nothing to do with this change either. We aren't going around Cape Horn or even really doing anything other than hugging the coastline for the most part. Each to their own, I guess Carnival should stop going to Hawaii if protected waters are so important! There is actually an 8 day that does Cabo first in April 2025 so I may book that. I would like to check out La Paz since I have only done the 7 day cruises as of yet.

S2S are great but I wasn't given any early boarding when I went from the Splendor to the Spirit out of Seattle to Alaska last year. Almost no walk at all in Seattle which was great.

They are still going with Cabo last on the 8 day so it's a no go for me. Leaving Cabo at 2:30 pm is ridiculous. Cabo used to be first with a much more reasonable 11 am to 7 pm schedule.

If I could have a coworker bite the bullet and pay for half my cruise and leaving me solo they would be my new best friend 😉

All this talk got me booked on the Legend out of Galveston in Nov 2025. Couldn't resist Celebration Key, HMC, Grand Turk, and Amber Cove. Just hope Galveston isn't too hard to get to from Houston Hobby Airport!

This is definitely a no show situation. No volunteering any info at the terminal either, they are just arriving separately. The guy who cannot go shouldn't even call Carnival after the fact. Let sleeping dogs lie and he will get his port fees and any prepaid gratuities, excursions, etc back some time after the cruise.

I have been wanting to do this also but every time I go to check out the paypal option briefly flashes and then disappears. AARP states it is temporarily not working for the last month or so.

That is what I do except I load a bunch all at once. The good thing about gift cards on sail and sign is they will refund any excess balance over 10 dollars at the end of the cruise to a new gift card.

They're just pulling our lariat! Actually I think they are just trying to be scary for Halloween.

Carnival's website update appears to have taken two steps backwards.

Carnival is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get 😉 but this should be easy to solve by logging into your carnival account and it tells you what day you check in. I am assuming it is Nov 18th because that is what you stated.

Panorama was 10 dollars last week.

You will be platinum when you cruise but your check in will be 14 days before because you haven't ranked up until you get onboard.

AARP hadn't run out of cards in quite some time. Must be all the Allstate refugees taking advantage now.

Are you satisfied overall with Alaska in Sept? I am booked for the 10 day in 2025.

What is discussed on Cruise Critic is but a tiny fraction of what goes on in the cruise world. All the blue card people and others that have no clue about no shows are the vast majority of people buying and taking cruises. On a grand scale no shows are likely not a problem and they are still taking in double the booking cost for one person even in the event of a no show.

You need to email and complain. I have emailed several times so far. There is zero reason to not give us the cruise summary. It is a computer generated pdf file that costs Carnival nothing and has been around for a very long time. It had a wealth of info that was easy to save and or print.

With all that time down maybe they could find a way to bring back the booking summary on the download documents!

I logged in just now and the scratch off game was working again but I didn't win anything. I logged in last night at 10pm pacific time and got the 50 points still for logging in. Go figure!