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4 minutes ago, tallnthensome said:

You're going to want to call Carnival with all those questions for accurate answers and options THEY may have for you. 

Hah!  Slim to none chance some random person who answers the Carnival phone line will give you accurate answers. Time and time again better information here.  
 

(And have you tried calling recently? Hold times through the roof and a ton of newbie agents well meaning but clueless.)

We are a family of four sailing in 2 cabins. All paid for by “mom” on her CC. 

One tested positive and won’t cruise. We don’t share a household with this person, they were going to fly in and join us. 
 

What are our options? (We don’t have travel insurance. That is a deliberate choice. We “self insure” and over the decades are way out on top. If we don’t get FCC I’m fine with that, but if it is on the table don’t want to let it go.)

can you cancel one in a room and get a FFC?  But then does ‘single supplement’ kick in?

Would they let us swap someone else in without penalty?

If only one pax sails in that cabin, can he get the drink package for himself?  They weren’t going to get it as the other pax doesn’t drink.  

We were cruising on one of the old carnival fascination class ships, and a woman walked to the back of the serenity deck, knelt briefly seemingly in prayer, opened a container and attempted to throw ashes into the sea. But of course, the wind took them, and they blew right back on deck, scattering them everywhere.
 

Not a pretty sight.  It was probably a pet though the volume wasn’t as great 🙂
 

(The “official” way is obviously the way to do it!) 

Monday morning pricing remains at old level and was able to add internet and specialty. 

Still not working. So frustrating. Amateur hour. 

1 hour ago, tallnthensome said:

No doubt!! I have no more sympathy for people who waited until the very last second to do this knowing long ahead that the prices were going up. 

Really?  A business gives you until x/date/time to do something, and the consumer who has shelled out hundreds if not thousands of dollars dutifully follows those guidelines about 6-8 hours before the deadline, and the business screws up and doesn't take your order?  Why would you blame the consumer for that?

On 4/30/2022 at 4:09 PM, Are.we.there.yet? said:

Actually... It's the booking and order details page not the cruise manager page.  Sorry about that.

Thanks for this!  We had added them as "cruise companions" but adding the actual bookings is a whole new level!

29 minutes ago, mz-s said:

 

Right, they don't care where you sleep. And it doesn't bother me, I don't buy Cheers (I get drinks on the casino every cruise here lately). But this definitely violates the spirit of the Cheers rules, even if not the letter of the Cheers rules, so I wonder how much attention Carnival is paying to it.

OP here, we didn't do it to get around the Cheers rules.  It was purely logistics, husband found out he could get the time off.

I can also understand taking advantage of VIPF rates and/or status perks.  

I suspect most do not find it worth the "hassle" just to get around Cheers rules, or even VIPF rates/status perks.  Not sure that Carnival could deny extra keys to "police" this.  Imagine being told you could not check in on your elderly mother?  Or raid your sister's closet?

On 4/30/2022 at 7:08 PM, Ferry_Watcher said:

 

Just curious.  Your daughter's friend is willing to share a room with some guy so the married couple can be together?  That's a big ask, IMO.  He drinks, she doesn't - and they are sharing a room.  On Carnival.  Hope it goes well.

Number one, I said it was a "mutual friend".  Why would you assume it is a "she"?

Number two, welcome to the modern world.  Opposite genders (platonic) regularly share rooms, apartments, etc.  In fact it is more the norm these days among millenials than not.

Number three, why wouldn't a "drinker" be willing to share with a "not-drinker"?  Did I suggest one was a falling down drunk abusive person?  

Thanks for being judgmental without knowing any facts  🙂

Da*n.  Same thing AGAIN.  

How stupid is this.

Title says it all.  Same thing happened yesterday, could not place orders.

Carnival extended through today.  We were not able to go online until a few hours ago - and have been trying ever since.

I hope they extend again but I'm not holding my breath.

Will guest services readily issue a “spare” key?  That would be a good solution. 

My daughter and her friend are booked in one cabin/booking on Carnival.  Neither drinks alcohol so they will get the basic soda package. 
 

Her husband (who couldn’t make the sail date but now is able to) has booked a second room with a mutual friend. They plan to both get the drink package. 
 

They also plan to swap rooms - so the married couple can be together. 
 

I understand they can go to guest services and either swap out the assignment or just get an extra key for the two “swapping” - is that correct?  I recall reading it is fairly routine?  
 

And is it any way complicated by the drink package as they will end up in “mixed” rooms. (They are not doing it to evade the policy,  to worth the complexities just to do that!)
 

Advice and experiences needed, thanks!  

We have 3 cabins traveling together under different resies. We have “linked” via invite as per the new protocol.

I’d like to make specialty restaurant resies for all 3 cabins (6) but can’t see how to do that. 
 

should we each make individual and then when we board ask for a table for 6?

TIA1

We used the Walgreen NAAT test on January @ Miami (seashore) no problem. 
 

I posted the exact same question before hand and someone explained that it actually is an antigen test. You can search for that thread under my login name. 
 

8 hours ago, AngryBirdah said:

 

Thanks.  We don't even like alcohol, but chocolate boats are nice!  From reading others' experiences, though, each Diamond member is entitled to a specialty dinner... I wouldn't mind hitting Butcher's Cut twice in the same week  😁

I think it is one specialty meal per cabin - check the perks listed on the website. 
 

Getting anything done about points or past trips is almost impossible. They failed to post our trip that would have made us platinum and it took forever to get it fixed. Their knee jerk reaction is no to any question even to post a missing trip. They seem to have been trained to assume you are gaming the system. Shame because we love the shipboard experience. 

49 minutes ago, cruisingguy007 said:

 

No problem. Even after you attest, you may still get the emails as there is a glitch going on. As long as it shows in your cruise manager "to do" list as crossed out, you should be GTG and can ignore those extra emails. As long as everyone acknowledges it in the affirmative and it's crossed out, that is all that is required. Enjoy your cruise! 

thanks again everyone!  And yes we will enjoy our cruise!

1 minute ago, cruisingguy007 said:

No uploading or any of that, just click the box to acknowledge that vaccines are required. Simple. They will cancel you if you don't do it, don't gamble on it. There is nothing to do but simply acknowledge the requirement is in place so that you can't claim you didn't know, or try to skirt the cancellation penalty later on down the line. It is there to avoid wasting a potential booking slot if folks are booking cruises they can't sail on. The can cancel it and refund your money if you don't attest and relist the cabin as available, apply cancellation penalties if you try and cancel after attesting and/or leave you standing at the cruise terminal if you show up without your vaccine papers. It's easy to do and takes about 10 seconds.     

Really helpful explanation and now it makes sense (but maybe not 48 hours!). And the email could be clearer that it isn’t requiring all vax info. 
 

Thanks everyone (other than the snarky) for the helpful responses. Hope this will help others. 
 

😉

2 hours ago, tallnthensome said:

What are you uploading for them? Just check the boxes as mentioned. 

Thanks, I thought they were asking for the full vaccine info that you have to upload on the verify app. Phew it is a check the box exercise!

It still seems odd there is this urgency around a check the box exercise almost 2 months out….

2 hours ago, Roz said:

 

I wouldn't want to be responsible for 8 people's paperwork, whether it's passport info, flights, vaccination status, health questionnaire, etc.

You do you. You have no clue about me and what I am dealing with. Judgey much?

3 minutes ago, ScottSails said:

I received the same email, which states your reservation 'may be subject to cancellation' if you don't comply within 48 hours by 'attesting' or downloading an app to upload your proof of vax status. It's simple to go into your cruise booking manager and attest...which is what I did WHILE booking our May cruise. They take vax status seriously...why roll the dice? 

Our cruise isn't for 1-1/2 months!   

I had not planned on spending my weekend gathering information from 8 people and uploading it.  (I am the organizer and handling all the "paper work".)

It is absurd that an email like that would got out months before a cruise!

In theory, somebody might not even yet be vaccinated but still have plenty of time to get the J&J (or whichever is the one shot dose!)

So seriously, will they cancel a cruise a month and a half out if I don't spend hours over this weekend tracking down everyone's information?!!

What?  We have made reservations including for 6 others and I am in the process of gathering information - and we all get emails saying we must complete the vaccine attestation within 48 hours!  And the cruise is not until late May - over 1-1/2 months away!

So "or what" happens in 48 hours?  They cancel our resies?  I even have one pax who has not yet had their second, but will be getting it in the next week.

As others have said, meh.  On the Sunshine unless you had the foresight to be way in the bow (especially on the “secret” bow balconies) you could only see one other ship.  Since we didn’t pay up for this cruise we’re happy to have been a part of it. 
 

One highlight was the cabin door decorations - the loyal plats/diamonds on board went more “all out” than Carnival did!  
 

15 hours ago, hummer2407 said:

I was on mera in October.   My son left his wristband on the table in our room and we never noticed.   It was there for a day.   Ship security found the family at the pool and kindly asked us the make sure we had our bracelets.   We were told that they noticed his bracelet not moving for a day.   They were very nice and it was an honest mistake.   We were told that the contact tracing will only kick in if you spend significant time directly next another and not just passing by.

No biggie.   

The bracelet actually came in handy when i left my phone at the photo area and didn't realize it until ship security brought my phone to me while i was seated outside.   They said they found my phone and delivered it to me.   I believe they use these more for tracking and for marketing and passenger habit info more than the virus.

‘That is REALLY creepy. I am a huge MSC fan (5 cruises to date) but will seriously consider giving a pass to any ship that is using tracing like this. (I believe it is not being used - yet?- on Seashore/Seaside despite the bracelets.). 
 

Huge privacy concerns and great risk to a vacay being tossed into quarantine for what is currently often asymptomatic or very mild esp with everyone double or triple vaxxed on board. No way. 

2 hours ago, ready2cruzagain said:

We were on the Seashore for 2 weeks ending on 3/12.  We were super disappointed in the pizza.  In the past we have enjoyed the pizza on the Divina and the Seaside but the Seashore did not have the great pizza like the other ships. On the Divina and Seashore they had all different types of pizza and would make specialty pizzas if you asked.

 

The Seashore only had 3 types of pizza available, Marguerita, Salami and a pizza with a white sauce, all three were on a wafer thin pizza crust.  

 

I asked several times if they could fix a different type of pizza and was told no.  They stated that they only fixed those three types of pizza.  

 

So, if you are going on the Seashore hoping to get some of their great pizza, forget about it! 

I agree!  I posted the same thing in my review of a few months ago. The pizza crust is just way too thin. I too have been on the Divina and Seaside and loved the pizza there (MDR).   As I said in that post, Carnival now has my favorite pizza @ sea (at least compared to Seashore).   
 

(I don’t recall the limited variety on Seashore but I only went twice so would probably to have noticed.)