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Register online at Walgreens or CVS pharmacies, at a location close to your hotel.  Use your hotel address for the registration, and select uninsured.  Both pharmacies, do not charge for uninsured people (government program).  Have used them both, as a Canadian traveller.  When doing B2B, the ship will test you at the end of the first cruise.

I booked 2 cabins for myself/hubby and one for friends who have never cruised before. At the time, I used my casino offer for one cabin, and hubby's casino offer for the 2nd cabin. So when I go to complete our boarding docs, would we lose those offers? Both cabins are paid in full.

Has anyone left La Romana and taken transportation to Punta Cana area and done excursions there? I understand it is about 50/60 miles away, but has so much more to offer. Any info would be great.

Too expensive. You could do so much with that money. However, the Lido deck is our favourite. It has never been noisy for us. Cabins above and below and so convenient.

Great review! Hearing about the tender situation for Princess Cays makes me glad that I booked a cabana. That way my mom, my sister and I will have a seat on the tender[emoji15]

We’ve cruised on Conquest a number of times and love it! Thanks for writing your review!

 

 

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Great review! We're sailing on Conquest May 19 and it's our first time cruising. I am a little worried about it being an "older" ship. I know you said it was in great shape, but did you notice anything that was outdated or lacking? Anything that seemed dirty or just old? For our first cruise, we didn't want to spend a ton on a new ship, so just testing the waters here! Thanks!

The staff do a great job keeping this ship in shape!

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I realize that I haven’t reviewed the ship too much here, but I’m open to questions. What I can say for sure, is that this is a good clean ship. I would sail on her again! Carnival does a good job all around (food, staff, entertainment). We’ve enjoyed every ship we have been on, some may be a little more worn than others, but the staff has always been great to us and the food options are plentiful. The part of cruising that we truly enjoy is that we have met some great people on every cruise.

So in closing, I will leave you with some tips that “we” have learned along the way.

• This is not the time to be on a diet! Have the Guy’s burger! It really is that good!
  
• Try the breakfast/brunch in the Aft dining room, they do a good job there and it’s a nice break from the buffet line.
  
• Explore the ship, there are some pretty neat tucked away areas that will surprise you.
  
• If you have any issue in your room, don’t be afraid to approach your room steward, they will do everything in their power to fix it. These folks bust their butts to make you happy.
  
• Try a movie under the stars on the Lido one night. It’s like a good old fashioned drive in movie!
  
• Catch at least one or two of the comedians shows throughout the cruise, Carnival has done a pretty good job with this, some better than others but it’s pretty decent!
  
• Don’t sweat it if you can’t make it to everything. It’s close to impossible to do it all. Save it for the next cruise!!
  
• And…you are totally on vacation so enjoy it and don’t blame the cruise line for the weather!
  

-SeaDay

When we first started to cruise, it was all about the ports and I couldn’t imagine having too many sea days. But I have to say, this is the part that we really have come to enjoy. Carnival does a pretty good job with activities going on somewhere and there really is no rush to be anywhere….unless you intend on baking in the sun all day..LOL.

Then you better rush and get that lounger!! We are early risers, and by 7 am the Lido deck loungers were 100% claimed by towels. Not many people, but tons of towels! No sweat for us, because we know that there are hundreds of loungers everywhere and when we are good and ready, we always find a couple. Because eventually someone gets tired of being there for 4 hours and vacates a lounger or two.

We grabbed a great breakfast in the aft dining room, walked around the ship,caught some sports updates in the Sports bar and eventually made our way to Deck 10 to look for loungers. Fortunately we found one and then another one, so we just move one to the other and we were set.

IMO, I do wish Carnival would do better with tagging empty loungers. It sure is disappointing to see one person sitting amongst 12 “reserved” loungers at 7 am. I feel bad for whoever drew the short straw on that one!! If Carnival would be consistent in this department, I’m sure overall satisfaction would improve. We don’t sweat it anymore, we wait them out and eventually that poor baked soul picks up and leaves.

-Curacao

A very unique island and a great place for some walking and shopping. I’m sure there are ton of things you could do here. But for us, we like to explore on our own and this is one of the rare Caribbean islands that I would say is pretty safe to do so. There’s a Starbucks very close to the dock, so it’s a good stop to catch up on any emails and such.

-Aruba

Another unique island! We grabbed a colourful open air tour bus right off the ship for $20/person. It gave us a tour of the island to the only points of interest that this island has, which are the same points of interest that you can pay 3x more for with a ship excursion. The tour operator was pretty informative and we were pretty satisfied with the 4 full hours for $20 which included an hour at Palm Beach. Do your research on the Cruise Critic Ports of Call boards, there are so many good tips there!

31 Mar - Embarkation Day (Port Everglades):

We had selected an arrival time for 12:30-1pm. This was the first time that I have seen this being strictly enforced. It almost seemed a little chaotic, which was a surprise to us. We did get on the ship within our time slot and had lunch by 1.

-Princess Cay

Well I would like to be able to tell you about Princess Cay, and how beautiful it was. However, as another reviewer said. The tender process was out of this world! We have learned over several cruises to wait out the mad rush to get off the ship in ports especially tendering. General boarding was started 3 hours later at 12, and the line was still at Deck 3. So needless to say, we did not disembark. We were not overly disappointed to miss this one, we still had Grand Turk!

-Grand Turk

A great beach day! Disembarking is a breeze here. Found a spot fairly easily on the beach a few rows back and felt quite comfortable leaving our towels and bag on our loungers to swim and grab drinks at Margarittaville. Close enough to enjoy the music and watch a few wave riders. We have been to Grand Turk at least 4 times and this is not the port to waste your money on an excursion. Unless you are a diver,snorkeller. I like this port because you don’t have to spend any money at all if you don’t want to. And the ship is conveniently parked right in front of you!

After reading numerous cruise reviews on this site, and enjoying many of them and learning so much from other cruisers, I decided I will try my best to review acruise.

About us…DH and I are Army veterans, with deployments to some crappy places, along with numerous nights sleeping in the field, eating rations and out of kitchen trailers. So needless to say, we are pretty darn happy to have a clean bed and decent food!

My husband and I became “addicted” to cruising in 2013, starting with Carnival Liberty. We have done 9 cruises in 5 years, 8 with Carnival, 1 with NCL, with Carnival Horizon booked for Dec 2018. We like Carnival for many reasons, and have never been turned off by any one thing. Sometimes I think we get bored with the familiarity of Carnival, but we have never left a cruise disappointed. They provide a great cruise, for a great price and that’s why we keep coming back.

We picked this cruise for the Ports and date,and not necessarily for the ship. We have sailed on the Conquest before and knew what to expect. The ship was as I remembered it with some updates that were great (Guy’s). They updated the room décor which was nicer than the beige/pink that I remember. But overall, I think it’s in pretty good shape for one of the older ships!

Hoping someone has copies of the Funtimes for Conquest 8 day sailing.

Thank you in advance!!

Breeze, breeze, breeze

Cruised in/out of Port Canaveral in April 2017(Magic) and Dec 2016(Sunshine). Both times off the ship by 8:00am, shuttled to car rental and on the road no later than 9:00am. This is very do-able. I would personally do it, if you're in a rush to get home. But if you are renting a car, spend a few extra hours in Orlando at an outlet mall and take the later one for some extra breathing room.

We just returned. Been there a few times and they are, for the most part, gentle.

BUT...they can bite. I felt teeth kind of numming on my arm and I said NO! He stopped.

The most shocking part is the head jumping when not expected. I find that pleasing, though.

That being said, one of them DID punch my husband in the eye. He was outside looking into the cage and got close and this little fist popped out and clocked him. I was sick from laughter. I'm actually laughing out loud now.

This was the funniest thing I have read in a long time!! Here I am at work, laughing out loud just picturing this whole situation. I'm sure my coworkers think I am crazy. Thank you for laugh!!

Thank you for your help!:)

Looking at booking a cruise early next year (2018) for my family, which includes 2 military members. Which booking should I use that allows name changes and/or cancellation with the least amount of headache. Also, what would be the cutoff for a name change. Just trying to be prepared in the event one cannot make the cruise.

I was under the impression that the computer would not allow bartender/attendant to swipe the card more than once in 5 min. I only say this, because I went to pick up 2 specialty coffees one morning for DH and I, and the attendant said I would have to wait 5 min. She did however go ahead and make the second coffee, but when she went to swipe the card after what seemed like 5 minutes. The machine would not except the card. A couple of minutes later, she tried again, printed off the receipt and I signed for it.

One would hope so but it doesn't work out that way when there are lots of smokers on board. I never sit at the casino bar but when I cannot even walk past the casino without coughing and gagging then it's a problem.

 

 

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This is your 3rd attempt to make this into a smoker vs non smoker post. Read the original post and respond accordingly.

It does, I was concerned about the tubes in particular, which looked much better on Viv. But found a post that said .bz just updated their tubes & I saw that on their website so they're back in the running :)

 

May I ask if you were able to book .bz via Carnival? I'm kind of nervous about us getting back to the boat on time (hence my OP about Viv).

 

Thanks for your input! :) Definitely helped!

They (.bz) are an independent tour operator, and we booked through their website, $50 each incl lunch (which we didnt pay until the end of the tour). I read quite a few of their reviews on trip advisor first, and they are very aware of all the ships timings. To be honest, all of the operators would be ultra aware of ships timings, otherwise one mistake like that would cost them dearly. Its a great tour no matter who you use. I just really liked how knowledgeablte their guides were. They really took pride in their country.

Hi I'm not sure if you're set on VIV for the cavetubing, but I would like to highly suggest Cavetubing.bz with Vitalino Reyes. He is on tripadvisor, Facebook and here on Cruise Critic. We booked with him through his website (no deposit required) through the recommendations of many on this site. Great guides with a wealth of information about their country. Just a great tour all around! Hope this helps.