Elaine515 Posted January 13, 2014 #1 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Faster To The Fun! Miami, FL - Sat, May 10 Select a Shore Excursion Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM $49.95 Only 16 tickets remain I was under the impression that Carnival only released 15 FTTF at a time, and certainly not so fair in advance. And this is AFTER a friend already purchased 2 of them today... No wonder the Guest Services Desk is so crowded :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnival03 Posted January 14, 2014 #2 Share Posted January 14, 2014 They do only release a little at a time however.... It may not be 15 tickets it may be 20 tickets but either way I do believe they limit it. When we booked our cruise on the Legend for April it wash't available at first. However a week later it was and it said they only had 9 tickets remaining. I hope they limit it or what good would the program do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propanetrain Posted January 14, 2014 #3 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Usually 50 a cruise do not have to purchase for each individual only for the room your in. Sent from my SCH-I535 using Forums mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnival_Brides Posted January 14, 2014 #4 Share Posted January 14, 2014 It depends on the number of Plats/Diamonds. If they got down to the last four tickets there was still availability in the lounge, they probably made the decision to open up the next set of 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vols_159 Posted January 14, 2014 #5 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Why are you fussing about how many fttf are available to buy? And Ive spent 25 days at sea so far yes i know not alot 4 cruises all together and ive not seen more than a couple people at the service desk at any given time.. Even when the Captain announced last time about the Ship being late into port because of Fog.. IS this different on other ships? Why the need for so many people to go to the service desk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliair Posted January 14, 2014 #6 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Why the need for so many people to go to the service desk? To complain about this or that. Carnival sees that it has a cash cow with FTTF. They don't care if Platinum or Diamond people complain, they only care about getting your money from your pocket into theirs. They don't have to spend their money to get yours with FTTF. It's a win-win for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudyard Posted January 14, 2014 #7 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Just to show you how much of an influence this board is, every time I walked past the guest services desk on my last cruise I glanced over to see how many were in the Priority line. I never saw more than two people at a time. Not sure if any of them were FTTF passengers who crawled their way up from steerage to to spread their cooties, or "real" priority passengers :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vols_159 Posted January 14, 2014 #8 Share Posted January 14, 2014 To complain about this or that. Carnival sees that it has a cash cow with FTTF. They don't care if Platinum or Diamond people complain, they only care about getting your money from your pocket into theirs. They don't have to spend their money to get yours with FTTF. It's a win-win for them. Agree with you.. and Why should Carnival care? they gain thousands of newbies each week.. We are all replaceable as customers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vols_159 Posted January 14, 2014 #9 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Just to show you how much of an influence this board is, every time I walked past the guest services desk on my last cruise I glanced over to see how many were in the Priority line. I never saw more than two people at a time. Not sure if any of them were FTTF passengers who crawled their way up from steerage to to spread their cooties, or "real" priority passengers :rolleyes: Only real priority to me should be suites .. Oh and Fttf Cause they paid more for the cruise than some diamond member who books inside cabins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruising Rules Posted January 14, 2014 #10 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Usually 50 a cruise do not have to purchase for each individual only for the room your in. Sent from my SCH-I535 using Forums mobile app So what your telling me is that Carnival has caused this uproar and animosity between guests in addition to insulting their most loyal supporters over a paltry $2,500 per sailing? Sad, very sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliair Posted January 14, 2014 #11 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Agree with you.. and Why should Carnival care? they gain thousands of newbies each week.. We are all replaceable as customers.. Exactly, if you notice my sig line, we've got 2 cruises booked on Princess. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kona_wahine Posted January 14, 2014 #12 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Stir, stir, stir that pot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanman Posted January 14, 2014 #13 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Exactly, if you notice my sig line, we've got 2 cruises booked on Princess. :D Yeah and you will probably find something to complain about there as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athankfulheart Posted January 15, 2014 #14 Share Posted January 15, 2014 (edited) Faster To The Fun!Miami, FL - Sat, May 10 Select a Shore Excursion Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM $49.95 Only 16 tickets remain I was under the impression that Carnival only released 15 FTTF at a time, and certainly not so fair in advance. And this is AFTER a friend already purchased 2 of them today... No wonder the Guest Services Desk is so crowded :( My husband and I had need of the guest services desk at LEAST 8 times on our cruise last week. Two of those times we had ONE person ahead of us. The other times we were the only ones in the priority line. My children used GS at other times as did the rest of our group. None of them mentioned having to wait in line. From our roll call, I know that at least 20 FTTF tickets were sold. Edited to Add: The first batch of FTTF tickets for our Jan 4.2014 sailing were opened up in mid December 2013. Edited January 15, 2014 by Athankfulheart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKane Posted January 15, 2014 #15 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Just to show you how much of an influence this board is, every time I walked past the guest services desk on my last cruise I glanced over to see how many were in the Priority line. I never saw more than two people at a time. Not sure if any of them were FTTF passengers who crawled their way up from steerage to to spread their cooties, or "real" priority passengers :rolleyes: Sounds like "sour grapes" to me:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoconutJD Posted January 15, 2014 #16 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Faster To The Fun!Miami, FL - Sat, May 10 Select a Shore Excursion Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM $49.95 Only 16 tickets remain I was under the impression that Carnival only released 15 FTTF at a time, and certainly not so fair in advance. And this is AFTER a friend already purchased 2 of them today... No wonder the Guest Services Desk is so crowded :( It's entirely possible they released 2 sets of 15, but sold 14 of them. Honestly, nobody but Carnival knows the process involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litewait Posted January 15, 2014 #17 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I don't care for any thing that FTF gets except priority embarkation.:mad: I have over 20 cruises with Carnival and have never has issues with embarkation until FTF started and on both of my last two cruise embarkation has been a cluster f*&$!. The worst. I thought embarkation on Liberty in August was awful that it couldn't get worse..until embarkation in Long Beach in December. OMG!! freaking nightmare. There is no system now, no priority, it sucks. Once onboard it really doesn't affect me. No issues with guest services, tendering or debarkation. But something has to change with embarkation. It'd only $50 per cabin but there can be four+ in a cabin times 30 cabins??? Your talking 120 additional passengers.. I know it can be less or more. But it really making a mess getting on the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jks336 Posted January 16, 2014 #18 Share Posted January 16, 2014 such an uproar over the FTTF. I can understand the embarkation, but, VIP still gets on the ship first before FTTF. Vip still get a bit more "perks". FTTF gets to get on board before zones but after vip, get to use the vip in guest services line and then if there is a tender can choose to do early. if there is as many as 100 people in possibly the same room as you before boarding is still a way lot better than the thousand behind you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denicewu Posted January 16, 2014 #19 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Exactly, if you notice my sig line, we've got 2 cruises booked on Princess. :D Have fun the grass is not always greener Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Tapi Posted January 16, 2014 #20 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Why the need for so many people to go to the service desk? To remove tips and add money to their cash accounts. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticks1 Posted January 16, 2014 #21 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Faster To The Fun!Miami, FL - Sat, May 10 Select a Shore Excursion Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM $49.95 Only 16 tickets remain I was under the impression that Carnival only released 15 FTTF at a time, and certainly not so fair in advance. And this is AFTER a friend already purchased 2 of them today... No wonder the Guest Services Desk is so crowded :( It could also be that the cruise line released 15 and those who had FTTF previously booked then either cancelled it or cancelled their cruise altogether which freed up additional spots. It has been said that FTTF is limited to 50 per sailing so "If" each of those cabins has 4 in them then that would be a total of 200 more allowed into the Guest Services line and I doubt that would cause a problem with it. How do you know that there weren't just a lot of Platinum/Diamonds on your particular cruise and that is who was in the line, did you take a survey? On my cruise on the Dream the highest number I have seen available for FTTF is 9 and I have been checking at least every week just to see when it shows sold out. I purchased mine when I booked the cruise months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vols_159 Posted January 16, 2014 #22 Share Posted January 16, 2014 To remove tips and add money to their cash accounts. :o If someone removes tips with just cause they should be dropped off at the next port.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormdancer24 Posted January 16, 2014 #23 Share Posted January 16, 2014 (edited) Faster To The Fun!Miami, FL - Sat, May 10 Select a Shore Excursion Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM $49.95 Only 16 tickets remain I was under the impression that Carnival only released 15 FTTF at a time, and certainly not so fair in advance. And this is AFTER a friend already purchased 2 of them today... No wonder the Guest Services Desk is so crowded :( When I booked our Sept 2014 cruise in Sept 2013, the FTTF was available the same day that I booked - so I got ours. It has been available off and on since then. So I would believe that Carnival makes them available very far out in advance. :D Edited January 16, 2014 by Stormdancer24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detroitlions Posted January 16, 2014 #24 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Exactly, if you notice my sig line, we've got 2 cruises booked on Princess. :D Princess is Carnival! They still got your money if you want to (Show them) Go to Royal . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Arsenal Fan Posted January 16, 2014 #25 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Princess is Carnival! They still got your money if you want to (Show them) Go to Royal . Meh, Corporation/parent company etc.... That's like saying I don't agree with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, I am no longer going to watch "The Simpsons". :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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