B2B Question

[Elaine5715]

3 hours ago, grandmarnnurse said:

Wow! Super! I can’t wait! I’m also excited because we are driving for that cruise, rather than fly, and I can bring on a 12 pack of Diet Coke and a bottle of wine! Hooray! Although I’m not happy about lugging extra weight, it’s a lot cheaper than buying it on ship. 

I won't get your hopes up for a ton of freebies.  The Hotel Director on each ship determines what, if anything is given to B2B cruisers.  Sometimes you get extras and sometimes you get nothing other than another cruise.  There is no standard.  Cruisers who are booked in B2B suites may get something different than folks in an interior.  

[grandmarnnurse]

1 minute ago, Elaine5715 said:

I won't get your hopes up for a ton of freebies.  The Hotel Director on each ship determines what, if anything is given to B2B cruisers.  Sometimes you get extras and sometimes you get nothing other than another cruise.  There is no standard.  Cruisers who are booked in B2B suites may get something different than folks in an interior.  

Gotcha! 👍 I can only hope, though! 😉

[LostPuppy]

20 hours ago, ShakyBeef said:

If you haven't already, you might want to contact your PVP, or TA, or whomever you booked the cruises with to make sure they are "linked" as a BTB, so that you are in the system as  BTB PAX and thus will get the proper instructions and processing while onboard.  Since you booked these cruises at two different times, it might not be linked.

Just to be clear, THERE IS NO LINKING!

 

We did a couple of different cruises and happened to have the same GS manager (Gabriela), so I asked her about B2B's at the returning guest party  She said it's a report they run.  That's it!  To infer that one NEED's to link cruises is just plain wrong and perpetuating a falsehood. 

 

Does one really think Carnival will escort you off the ship because you didn't talk to GS?   "I'm sorry sir, the 2nd leg of your cruise is not in our system. please debark the ship and wait with the unwashed masses to come back aboard."  Jeesh...

[ShakyBeef]

43 minutes ago, LostPuppy said:

Just to be clear, THERE IS NO LINKING!

 

We did a couple of different cruises and happened to have the same GS manager (Gabriela), so I asked her about B2B's at the returning guest party  She said it's a report they run.  That's it!  To infer that one NEED's to link cruises is just plain wrong and perpetuating a falsehood. 

 

Does one really think Carnival will escort you off the ship because you didn't talk to GS?   "I'm sorry sir, the 2nd leg of your cruise is not in our system. please debark the ship and wait with the unwashed masses to come back aboard."  Jeesh...

Wow, I seem to have deeply offended you with my advice to the OP.  

 

I  am simply passing on what I found to be helpful information from others on CC.   Some of those others, BTW,  have reported that their two legs were not "linked" in the system so they did not receive the BTB gift that others on their sailing did,  and,  more importantly,  didn't receive the instructions prior to embarkation of the first leg.  So,  they were not treated as BTB PAX. 

 

My PVP also confirmed that there is indeed a "linking" process and that my two cruises were automatically linked because I booked them at the same time with him. 

 

So are you sure it's me perpetuating the falsehood here?  Does your GS trump my PVP and the CC members to whom this happened? 

Edited March 14, 2019 by ShakyBeef

[schazzy]

9 hours ago, Tiger0613 said:

Did they also have virgin mimosas?  The only alcoholic drink I can tolerate is a daiquiri.  Everything else is disgusting to me.

 

1 hour ago, Elaine5715 said:

That is called orange juice.

 

So the answer is yes.

[coevan]

10 hours ago, Tiger0613 said:

Did they also have virgin mimosas?  The only alcoholic drink I can tolerate is a daiquiri.  Everything else is disgusting to me.

 

 

Daiquiri is not an alcohol, you can order a virgin daiquiri. The alcohol is rum. 

[Tiger0613]

1 hour ago, coevan said:

 

 

Daiquiri is not an alcohol, you can order a virgin daiquiri. The alcohol is rum. 

A Carnival virgin daiquiri is also called a smoothie.

 

I never said a daiquiri is alcohol.  I said it was an alcoholic drink.  An alcoholic drink has alcohol in it.  A Carnival daiquiri is a smoothie with rum in it.

 

A daiquiri on land is a spiked slushie.

 

3 hours ago, Elaine5715 said:

That is called orange juice.

 

2 hours ago, schazzy said:

 

 

So the answer is yes.

A virgin mimosa is orange juice and Sprite.

Edited March 14, 2019 by Tiger0613

[schazzy]

4 minutes ago, Tiger0613 said:

A virgin mimosa is orange juice and sprite.

 

Well, they have both OJ and Sprite at pretty much all the bars, so again I'd say the answer is yes.

Edited March 14, 2019 by schazzy

[coevan]

2 minutes ago, Tiger0613 said:

I never said a daiquiri is alcohol.  I said it was an alcoholic drink.  An alcoholic drink has alcohol in it.  A daiquiri is a smoothie with rum in it.

 

 

No it's not, a smoothie is blended fruit. A daiquiri is Rum, lime juice and simple syrup (liquid sugar)

[schazzy]

5 minutes ago, coevan said:

 

 

No it's not, a smoothie is blended fruit. A daiquiri is Rum, lime juice and simple syrup (liquid sugar)

 

Correct, ff anything, what is served as a daiquiri on Carnival and a lot of other places is called a slush.

[Tiger0613]

11 minutes ago, coevan said:

 

 

No it's not, a smoothie is blended fruit. A daiquiri is Rum, lime juice and simple syrup (liquid sugar)

Have you ever had a Carnival daiquiri?  It is ice, fruit flavored juice, and rum.  Lime juice has never been in any Carnival daiquiri that I have had.  I have had strawberry(gross), banana(meh), and peach.  Every daiquiri I have had on Carnival has been the consistency of a smoothie.  Any daiquiri I have had on land has been the consistency of a slushie.

[Elaine5715]

3 hours ago, LostPuppy said:

Just to be clear, THERE IS NO LINKING!

 

We did a couple of different cruises and happened to have the same GS manager (Gabriela), so I asked her about B2B's at the returning guest party  She said it's a report they run.  That's it!  To infer that one NEED's to link cruises is just plain wrong and perpetuating a falsehood. 

 

Does one really think Carnival will escort you off the ship because you didn't talk to GS?   "I'm sorry sir, the 2nd leg of your cruise is not in our system. please debark the ship and wait with the unwashed masses to come back aboard."  Jeesh...

 

2 hours ago, ShakyBeef said:

Wow, I seem to have deeply offended you with my advice to the OP.  

 

I  am simply passing on what I found to be helpful information from others on CC.   Some of those others, BTW,  have reported that their two legs were not "linked" in the system so they did not receive the BTB gift that others on their sailing did,  and,  more importantly,  didn't receive the instructions prior to embarkation of the first leg.  So,  they were not treated as BTB PAX. 

 

My PVP also confirmed that there is indeed a "linking" process and that my two cruises were automatically linked because I booked them at the same time with him. 

 

So are you sure it's me perpetuating the falsehood here?  Does your GS trump my PVP and the CC members to whom this happened? 

If you count having B2Bs on a list are being "linked" then that is what happens.   That list is how they make sure B2Bs are getting the correct debarkation information after the first cruise, not a gift.   They need to be sure B2Bs are cleared off the first cruise so they can zero out the ship and let off crew.  Not everyone gets the same gift so there could be a number of reasons someone got nothing.  

 

[Tiger0613]

14 minutes ago, schazzy said:

 

Well, they have both OJ and Sprite at pretty much all the bars, so again I'd say the answer is yes.

I know that.  I was asking if they had premade virgin mimosas.  I didn't think I needed to specify premade virgin mimosas because they had regular mimosas already premade.

[schazzy]

13 minutes ago, Tiger0613 said:

I know that.  I was asking if they had premade virgin mimosas.  I didn't think I needed to specify premade virgin mimosas because they had regular mimosas already premade.

 

I doubt it, but either way I'm sure they would have no problem accommodating your request since the ingredients are right there at the atrium bar is what I was getting at.

Edited March 14, 2019 by schazzy

[ShakyBeef]

10 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

 

If you count having B2Bs on a list are being "linked" then that is what happens. 

 

 

Yes, I guess one could use the phrase "added to the list" instead of "linked".   I was just following suit - using the same term that has been used many times by other posters over the years for this process.  I admit complete ignorance as to what is actually done by Carnival during this process, I just know what I have  been told by others who have experience with it.  But I think we're really just getting down to semantics, here.  As I see it, the two sailings would have to be "linked" in some way as a BTB (even if said "linking" process is simply a mental process for the Carnival rep inputting the data) for the PAX to be "put on the list". 

 

It all comes out to: there are some that didn't draw Carnival's attention to the fact (read: link their two cruises) that they were doing a BTB and subsequently did not get treated as BTB (read: put on the list).  And so advice to "link" one's sailings is being passed on, so that one can avoid this little SNAFU.

[Geargoesdown]

FYI from carnival’s website. 

[ShakyBeef]

12 minutes ago, Geargoesdown said:

FYI from carnival’s website. 

 

Thank you, Geargoesdown!

 

It seems that "bookings are referenced as BTB" is yet another way to say "put on the BTB list", or "linked".  But apparently passing on the same advice that the Carnival website passes on is "just plain wrong and perpetuating a falsehood".

Edited March 14, 2019 by ShakyBeef

[Elaine5715]

1 hour ago, ShakyBeef said:

 

Yes, I guess one could use the phrase "added to the list" instead of "linked".   I was just following suit - using the same term that has been used many times by other posters over the years for this process.  I admit complete ignorance as to what is actually done by Carnival during this process, I just know what I have  been told by others who have experience with it.  But I think we're really just getting down to semantics, here.  As I see it, the two sailings would have to be "linked" in some way as a BTB (even if said "linking" process is simply a mental process for the Carnival rep inputting the data) for the PAX to be "put on the list". 

 

It all comes out to: there are some that didn't draw Carnival's attention to the fact (read: link their two cruises) that they were doing a BTB and subsequently did not get treated as BTB (read: put on the list).  And so advice to "link" one's sailings is being passed on, so that one can avoid this little SNAFU.

Correct.  I always spent 30 seconds in line at GS making sure..

[coevan]

2 hours ago, Tiger0613 said:

Have you ever had a Carnival daiquiri?  It is ice, fruit flavored juice, and rum.  Lime juice has never been in any Carnival daiquiri that I have had.  I have had strawberry(gross), banana(meh), and peach.  Every daiquiri I have had on Carnival has been the consistency of a smoothie.  Any daiquiri I have had on land has been the consistency of a slushie.

 

 

Have you ever had a smoothie? There is fresh fruit, yogurt, it's not an icy slush. A strawberry Daiquiri is not a smoothie by any stretch of the imagination. Again being in the service business, Google Daquiri, Rum, lime juice, simple syrup, ice and blend.

[coevan]

2 hours ago, schazzy said:

 

I doubt it, but either way I'm sure they would have no problem accommodating your request since the ingredients are right there at the atrium bar is what I was getting at.

 

 

A virgin Mimosa is OJ, period. There is no soda water in a Mimosa 

 

Main alcohol: Champagne

Ingredients: 2 1/2 oz (1 part) Orange juice, 2 1/2 oz (1 part) Champagne

[grandmarnnurse]

5 hours ago, ShakyBeef said:

Wow, I seem to have deeply offended you with my advice to the OP.  

 

I  am simply passing on what I found to be helpful information from others on CC.   Some of those others, BTW,  have reported that their two legs were not "linked" in the system so they did not receive the BTB gift that others on their sailing did,  and,  more importantly,  didn't receive the instructions prior to embarkation of the first leg.  So,  they were not treated as BTB PAX. 

 

My PVP also confirmed that there is indeed a "linking" process and that my two cruises were automatically linked because I booked them at the same time with him. 

 

So are you sure it's me perpetuating the falsehood here?  Does your GS trump my PVP and the CC members to whom this happened? 

I did call Carnival, and they said they did indeed have to link the cruises to be listed as B2B in their system, so I’m all set. But I will also go to Guest Services once onboard because I’m the Type A, OCD type of person that wants to make absolutely sure that all my ducks are in a row. 

[ShakyBeef]

Just now, grandmarnnurse said:

I did call Carnival, and they said they did indeed have to link the cruises to be listed as B2B in their system, so I’m all set. But I will also go to Guest Services once onboard because I’m the Type A, OCD type of person that wants to make absolutely sure that all my ducks are in a row. 

 

I hear ya, I'm the same.  And I have done / will do the same.  Happy BTB!

 

[grandmarnnurse]

2 hours ago, ShakyBeef said:

 

Yes, I guess one could use the phrase "added to the list" instead of "linked".   I was just following suit - using the same term that has been used many times by other posters over the years for this process.  I admit complete ignorance as to what is actually done by Carnival during this process, I just know what I have  been told by others who have experience with it.  But I think we're really just getting down to semantics, here.  As I see it, the two sailings would have to be "linked" in some way as a BTB (even if said "linking" process is simply a mental process for the Carnival rep inputting the data) for the PAX to be "put on the list". 

 

It all comes out to: there are some that didn't draw Carnival's attention to the fact (read: link their two cruises) that they were doing a BTB and subsequently did not get treated as BTB (read: put on the list).  And so advice to "link" one's sailings is being passed on, so that one can avoid this little SNAFU.

👍 Im taking your advice. Making sure I’m linked or on a list! 👍

[ShakyBeef]

6 hours ago, LostPuppy said:

Just to be clear, THERE IS NO LINKING!

 

We did a couple of different cruises and happened to have the same GS manager (Gabriela), so I asked her about B2B's at the returning guest party  She said it's a report they run.  That's it!  To infer that one NEED's to link cruises is just plain wrong and perpetuating a falsehood. 

 

Does one really think Carnival will escort you off the ship because you didn't talk to GS?   "I'm sorry sir, the 2nd leg of your cruise is not in our system. please debark the ship and wait with the unwashed masses to come back aboard."  Jeesh...

 

Just to be clear, THERE IS LINKING!

 

To profess that one NEEDn't  link cruises is just plain wrong and perpetuating a falsehood.

 

 Jeesh...

 

 

[grandmarnnurse]

2 hours ago, Geargoesdown said:

FYI from carnival’s website. 

👍