Cruise stop in Greenland?

[maryann2]

5 minutes ago, jimbo5544 said:

I am in 3 different grtoups and have seen nothng on it except early pick up times for tickets

It is on JH 's page.

Only 2 tenders used.

Edited August 19, 2023 by maryann2

[jimbo5544]

3 minutes ago, maryann2 said:

It is on JH 's page.

Only 2 shuttles used.

Are they using lifeboats?

 

[iamsteph]

16 minutes ago, jimbo5544 said:

I am in 3 different grtoups and have seen nothng on it except early pick up times for tickets

I'm also in three different groups and wait times to tender back to the boat were 1.5+ hours.  Someone posted a video of the line. It just kept going and going and going!

[jimbo5544]

11 minutes ago, iamsteph said:

I'm also in three different groups and wait times to tender back to the boat were 1.5+ hours.  Someone posted a video of the line. It just kept going and going and going!

Need more info before I send up the sos flare….  DId they have tickets?  When did they get them?  Etc etc. Of course there will be back up with two tenders.  Let’s see how they respond after everyone back on baord.  Then we can run it up the ladder

Edited August 19, 2023 by jimbo5544

[CentralNY1]

We're on the Legend. The problem is that there was only one small dock that the tenders could use at Nanortalik meaning only one could unload/load at a time. If you were fortunate enough to have a tender ticket of 1 through about 15 you were ok. People with tender tickets in the high 20s or 30s didn't get to shore until mid afternoon. Got in line to go back to the ship at 2:48 and didn't get on a tender until 4:13. CCL was using 4 lifeboats but with 1 dock it rendered 2 of the 4 lifeboats useless. Things seem better this morning. Have tender ticket 14 and they have already called it and it's only 7:55 local time. 

[jimbo5544]

1 hour ago, CentralNY1 said:

We're on the Legend. The problem is that there was only one small dock that the tenders could use at Nanortalik meaning only one could unload/load at a time. If you were fortunate enough to have a tender ticket of 1 through about 15 you were ok. People with tender tickets in the high 20s or 30s didn't get to shore until mid afternoon. Got in line to go back to the ship at 2:48 and didn't get on a tender until 4:13. CCL was using 4 lifeboats but with 1 dock it rendered 2 of the 4 lifeboats useless. Things seem better this morning. Have tender ticket 14 and they have already called it and it's only 7:55 local time. 

Thanks for the info.

 

[jimbo5544]

2 hours ago, CentralNY1 said:

We're on the Legend. The problem is that there was only one small dock that the tenders could use at Nanortalik meaning only one could unload/load at a time. If you were fortunate enough to have a tender ticket of 1 through about 15 you were ok. People with tender tickets in the high 20s or 30s didn't get to shore until mid afternoon. Got in line to go back to the ship at 2:48 and didn't get on a tender until 4:13. CCL was using 4 lifeboats but with 1 dock it rendered 2 of the 4 lifeboats useless. Things seem better this morning. Have tender ticket 14 and they have already called it and it's only 7:55 local time. 

Would love to hear more about your cruise

Edited August 20, 2023 by jimbo5544

[CentralNY1]

4 hours ago, jimbo5544 said:

Would love to hear more about your cruise

Cruise has been wonderful so far. I'll will post more later. Just wanted to pop in to inform everyone that tendering was excellent today. 

[maryann2]

4 minutes ago, CentralNY1 said:

Cruise has been wonderful so far. I'll will post more later. Just wanted to pop in to inform everyone that tendering was excellent today. 

Glad you are having a better experience today. The photos on FB are beautiful. A once in a lifetime experience.

[stobe1]

On 8/18/2023 at 1:17 PM, jimbo5544 said:

Thanks, I will be posting live (internet permitting).

I, too, will be anxiously awaiting your review. We are doing this same cruise in May blnext year on the Pride.

 

And since others tend have an aversion to hearing about it, we, also, got a killer deal on this one with a casino offer.

[jimbo5544]

33 minutes ago, stobe1 said:

I, too, will be anxiously awaiting your review. We are doing this same cruise in May blnext year on the Pride.

 

And since others tend have an aversion to hearing about it, we, also, got a killer deal on this one with a casino offer.

I will post mine live during the cruise.  Will actually start it a couple days before cruise.  

[CentralNY1]

Carnival has done really well on this Journeys cruise by adding many activities, lectures and an extra comedian. There was plenty to do during the 5.5 sea days which was our biggest concern. We've also had the most remarkable sea conditions I've ever experienced.  The sea state was amazingly calm and ZERO wind. Food has been mostly good with extra variety in the menu.  If anyone has any specific questions, I'm more than happy to answer.

[CentralNY1]

One important thing to add. Mosquito nets are an absolute must have in Qaqortoq. Wasn't an issue at all in Nanortalik. 

[jimbo5544]

12 minutes ago, CentralNY1 said:

Carnival has done really well on this Journeys cruise by adding many activities, lectures and an extra comedian. There was plenty to do during the 5.5 sea days which was our biggest concern. We've also had the most remarkable sea conditions I've ever experienced.  The sea state was amazingly calm and ZERO wind. Food has been mostly good with extra variety in the menu.  If anyone has any specific questions, I'm more than happy to answer.

Excellent!  Enjoy your cruise, thanks for the added infio

[stobe1]

1 hour ago, CentralNY1 said:

Carnival has done really well on this Journeys cruise by adding many activities, lectures and an extra comedian. There was plenty to do during the 5.5 sea days which was our biggest concern. We've also had the most remarkable sea conditions I've ever experienced.  The sea state was amazingly calm and ZERO wind. Food has been mostly good with extra variety in the menu.  If anyone has any specific questions, I'm more than happy to answer.

Do you plan on doing a review after the cruise? I would love to hear your overall thoughts and take on it. 

[jimbo5544]

1 hour ago, stobe1 said:

Do you plan on doing a review after the cruise? I would love to hear your overall thoughts and take on it. 

Me as well

 

[wxtrix]

2 hours ago, CentralNY1 said:

Carnival has done really well on this Journeys cruise by adding many activities, lectures and an extra comedian. There was plenty to do during the 5.5 sea days which was our biggest concern. We've also had the most remarkable sea conditions I've ever experienced.  The sea state was amazingly calm and ZERO wind. Food has been mostly good with extra variety in the menu.  If anyone has any specific questions, I'm more than happy to answer.

 

i’m on one of the 2024 sailings and am curious about the dailies for the sea days, if you write a review upon your return.

 

the photos i’ve seen from yesterday and today are gorgeous. so happy to hear that the seas have been calm.

[MadManOfBethesda]

On 8/19/2023 at 2:49 AM, CruizinSusan70 said:

Of course, you're a gambler and have zero reality as to what the normal cruiser pays for a cruise.  This unique itinerary when it first came out sold out in like two days, so they came out with another date. 

As a stockholder I'd like to thank you for cruising on a 21 year old ship.  I've been cruising for over 35 years and the only time I've ever cruised on a ship that was over 10 years old was once, last year on the refurbished Oasis OTS. We took the Carnival blinders off years ago and spread the wealth around. 

 

I fully realize that certain cruisers like yourself like the smaller to mid size ships.  I will agree with you regarding sea days, we do like them, but it was highway robbery what Carnival was charging for these unique cruises.  They have 3 of them next year, the May 2024 is over 2000 for an inside, while the other two sailings in Aug and Sept are around 1800.  This is 10 times what you paid and the regular folk are not getting 300 in OBC or cash either unless they own Carnival stock.  Enjoy your cruise and good luck with the bones.

I certainly do know what "normal" cruisers pay for cruises. I paid the going rate for a "normal" cruiser on a Windstar cruise last October from Athens to Barcelona and I will be paying the going rate for a normal cruiser on a Celebrity transatlantic this October from Barcelona to Port Canaveral. What I said was that I didn't know what the going rate was for this particular cruise because I was traveling on a casino offer. As stated above, I don't always do so. Oh, and since you seem to be questioning my bona fides for giving my opinion, I've been cruising for 43 years, with my first Carnival cruise being on the original Mardi Gras 40 years ago in 1983.

 

As for the popularity of this itinerary and the original date selling out in two days; I booked this casino rate roughly 6 weeks before sailing around the end of June. And I could have booked the same itinerary in September, so some of those early bookers must have just put deposits down and then ultimately cancelled before final payment. 

[CentralNY1]

2 hours ago, wxtrix said:

 

i’m on one of the 2024 sailings and am curious about the dailies for the sea days, if you write a review upon your return.

 

the photos i’ve seen from yesterday and today are gorgeous. so happy to hear that the seas have been calm.

I've never done a full review before but I will do one with photos when we get back home. 🙂

[CentralNY1]

On 8/18/2023 at 2:17 PM, jimbo5544 said:

Thanks, I will be posting live (internet permitting).

Internet has been great. No issues at all. 

[jimbo5544]

3 minutes ago, CentralNY1 said:

Internet has been great. No issues at all. 

You are full or encouraging news!

[MadManOfBethesda]

22 hours ago, jimbo5544 said:

Need more info before I send up the sos flare….  DId they have tickets?  When did they get them?  Etc etc. Of course there will be back up with two tenders.  Let’s see how they respond after everyone back on baord.  Then we can run it up the ladder

Ticket distribution began at 6:30am, but some people got in line hours earlier. My wife originally went down at 6:00am, saw the line of people waiting, and came back to the cabin and climbed back into bed, lol. When we ultimately got tickets later in the morning, we were number 30. There was a delay in beginning the tender operation due to another helicopter medical evacuation at 4:30am. It was supposed to start at 7:00am but didn't begin until exactly 7:37am. (I looked at my watch.) They called our #30 at 12:10pm, which was fine, but what perturbed us to no end was that we then had to wait in a long line for well over another hour before actually boarding the shuttle. And while we were waiting in that long line that wasn't moving, they also called #31 & #32 to get in line. There was simply no reason to make all those people stand there and wait when there was already such a long delay. Some people didn't get off the ship until after 2pm, over 6 hours from when the process started. And the line to return was very long as well. Rather than wait in that line, we just hung out at the bar until it dissipated. Although the last shuttle was supposed to be at 5:15pm, there was still a long line at that time, so we stayed in the bar a while longer. When we returned the line was much shorter. I think it was around 6pm when we got back on board the ship.

 

And I don't agree with the posters above that the reason was there was only one dock yesterday. Today went much, much better. They began calling numbers at 7:00 and they came fast and furious. We were #23 today and when our number was called around two hours later, we walked right onto a shuttle with no waiting in line whatsoever.  And the line to return from port wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday either.

 

Yesterday's debacle aside, it has been a great cruise.

[jimbo5544]

2 minutes ago, MadManOfBethesda said:

Ticket distribution began at 6:30am, but some people got in line hours earlier. My wife originally went down at 6:00am, saw the line of people waiting, and came back to the cabin and climbed back into bed, lol. When we ultimately got tickets later in the morning, we were number 30. There was a delay in beginning the tender operation due to another helicopter medical evacuation at 4:30am. It was supposed to start at 7:00am but didn't begin until exactly 7:37am. (I looked at my watch.) They called our #30 at 12:10pm, which was fine, but what perturbed us to no end was that we then had to wait in a long line for well over another hour before actually boarding the shuttle. And while we were waiting in that long line that wasn't moving, they also called #31 & #32 to get in line. There was simply no reason to make all those people stand there and wait when there was already such a long delay. Some people didn't get off the ship until after 2pm, over 6 hours from when the process started. And the line to return was very long as well. Rather than wait in that line, we just hung out at the bar until it dissipated. Although the last shuttle was supposed to be at 5:15pm, there was still a long line at that time, so we stayed in the bar a while longer. When we returned the line was much shorter. I think it was around 6pm when we got back on board the ship.

 

And I don't agree with the posters above that the reason was there was only one dock yesterday. Today went much, much better. They began calling numbers at 7:00 and they came fast and furious. We were #23 today and when our number was called around two hours later, we walked right onto a shuttle with no waiting in line whatsoever.  And the line to return from port wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday either.

 

Yesterday's debacle aside, it has been a great cruise.

Thanks for the reply

Edited August 20, 2023 by jimbo5544

[MadManOfBethesda]

1 hour ago, CentralNY1 said:

Internet has been great. No issues at all. 

I have been pleasantly surprised at how well the Internet service has been functioning on this cruise. I've been able to stream live tv, movies, and other videos with absolutely no buffering or other issues throughout the cruise so far. One of my best ever experiences.

[CruizinSusan70]

6 hours ago, MadManOfBethesda said:

I certainly do know what "normal" cruisers pay for cruises. I paid the going rate for a "normal" cruiser on a Windstar cruise last October from Athens to Barcelona and I will be paying the going rate for a normal cruiser on a Celebrity transatlantic this October from Barcelona to Port Canaveral. What I said was that I didn't know what the going rate was for this particular cruise because I was traveling on a casino offer. As stated above, I don't always do so. Oh, and since you seem to be questioning my bona fides for giving my opinion, I've been cruising for 43 years, with my first Carnival cruise being on the original Mardi Gras 40 years ago in 1983.

 

As for the popularity of this itinerary and the original date selling out in two days; I booked this casino rate roughly 6 weeks before sailing around the end of June. And I could have booked the same itinerary in September, so some of those early bookers must have just put deposits down and then ultimately cancelled before final payment. 

Glad to hear that you have me best by 3 years since my first was on the Jubilee in July of 86.  Those cruisers that cancelled before final payment were smart to do so in my opinion since the prices that Carnival were charging were highway robbery compared to a normal cruise.  Carnival is the gateway cruise line for many, primarily because of their rock bottom prices.  The bean counters decided to inflate the price because of the unique itinerary it provided compared to where Carnival normally cruises.  Unique and different out of the way ports are never synonymous with CCL.