mevelandry
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Those pictures are all in/around Mahogany Bay, Honduras.
Thank you.
Those pictures are all in/around Mahogany Bay, Honduras.
If you follow John Heald on FB, he just posted a video showing the very first guests walking into the atrium on the Carnival Breeze! It made me so happy to watch!
The main casino has both smoking and non-smoking sections
This is the reason why I can't go on many ships. Indoor smoking areas. We all know that the smoke does not stay in it's section and you can usually smell it in a very large area indoors. I am allergic to it so it is impossible for me to go on so many ships. Disney does a great job of having the smoking section, up and away from things that it is easily avoidable.
They upgraded the ventilation system on Vista and the casino wasn’t nearly as bad as it used to be, I was surprised. As a former smoker, I now can’t stand the smell of it and I really had to get pretty close to the casino to smell. Also, they removed the bar in the center of the casino so there were no people going in there just so they could smoke inside, I think that helped a lot. They were enforcing playing the machines if you were sitting in front of one, they did not allow people to just sit down and have a smoke!I don't know how they plan to do it. I know they "upgraded" ventilation (new standards because of COVID)... I wonder if they will physically separate the two sections --hoping they would-- but the fact that they created a second casino (100% non smoking) on another deck makes me think that they did not.
Interesting, that could be a game changer for me.Fun change for people having Bottomless bubbles (soda package)… Mardi Gras has self-serve machines!
I should not be allowed on a computer after returning from a cruise. Just booked Carnival Celebration for June 2023, 8 night Southern Caribbean from Miami. It’s an ABC cruise, Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, doesn’t leave Aruba and Bonaire until 10:00 PM so will be able to see the ports at night. I discovered that ship has Ocean Suites that connect with regular balcony cabins so we did that, wife and I in suite, kids in balcony. It’s about half the price of the two inside cabins we had booked for the 9 night southern Caribbean on Disney Fantasy last year.
And on a further development, we decided to cancel our Disney Wish cruise for next summer. We were going to do a week on Mardi Gras, then spend a couple nights in Port Canaveral, then get on Wish for 4 nights. After you thinking about it more, we decided the really only difference on Wish is new restaurants, so we’re doing a B2B on Mardi Gras instead.
I believe so, although I think the Spirit Class ships have a few balconies that connect to window and maybe even inside cabins.That sounds amazing! We still haven't done the ABC's and are dying to. What a cool thing about the suites and balcony combo! Is the Mardi Gras the first to do that?
I was browsing a bit to see if any Carnival Journey cruises were popping up. Last year we had our eye on an Iceland/Northern Europe sailing that looked awesome. But then again, we're definitely going to need some Caribbean time, so I'm not sure which way we'll end up going!
Other than wearing a mask in port and showing back card, there really was nothing different. The cruise kind of felt like covid never existed, just a bunch of people laughing and having fun again. They had a ton of hand sanitizer stands all over the ship, and everything was still self serve. If you wanted a paper fun times, you had to get it at guest services, but everything was available on the app, which worked really well. Cozumel enforced masks hard, Roatan didn’t care at all about them and I didn’t debark in Belize to know about it there. However, masks were required on the tender in Belize. Outdoor Carnival crew members were allowed to go mask less if they wanted to, some did and others didn’t. Overall, the crew was fantastic, the majority got back in the ship because it was they only chance for them to get a vaccine and many’s families were not working at all because of lockdown, so this was the only way to make money. We really tipped generously for our dining room team and room steward. Room steward, Gunter, cried when I gave him the money. I wanted to hug the guy but they weren’t allowed to do any hugging. Overall, it was a fantastic experience.@Club Disney Chandler Can I ask what your embarkation process was like? I assume you had to wear masks and show proof of vax, but was anything else notable or different?
Other than wearing a mask in port and showing back card, there really was nothing different. The cruise kind of felt like covid never existed, just a bunch of people laughing and having fun again. They had a ton of hand sanitizer stands all over the ship, and everything was still self serve. If you wanted a paper fun times, you had to get it at guest services, but everything was available on the app, which worked really well. Cozumel enforced masks hard, Roatan didn’t care at all about them and I didn’t debark in Belize to know about it there. However, masks were required on the tender in Belize. Outdoor Carnival crew members were allowed to go mask less if they wanted to, some did and others didn’t. Overall, the crew was fantastic, the majority got back in the ship because it was they only chance for them to get a vaccine and many’s families were not working at all because of lockdown, so this was the only way to make money. We really tipped generously for our dining room team and room steward. Room steward, Gunter, cried when I gave him the money. I wanted to hug the guy but they weren’t allowed to do any hugging. Overall, it was a fantastic experience.
I know I didn’t do a real review of the cruise because it honestly just felt like any other cruise, so if anyone has a question let me know, I’d be more than happy to answer anything.
Funny you should ask . It actually was great, we reported to Limelight Lounge and waited a couple minutes to see if anyone else would be joining us. They try to do it to a group of at least 10 people if possible. They scanned our cards and we sat down. They went through the proper way to put on the life vest and it’s features, talked about what to do if we had to evacuate the ship and sent us on our merry way. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy! Of course, before we set sail they were trying to get the people, who couldn’t take 5 minutes out of their busy life, to go to guest services to get it taken care of. Eventually, we did set sail and life was good. I found out later they put a block on the people’s Sail and Sign cards who didn’t do muster, that way it could get done. How did I find out you ask????? We went to the opening show after dinner and I ordered a Cranberry Juice and Tonic, the server came back to me and said he wasn’t able to get my order and that I needed to go to guest services. They told me my wife and I were 2 of the people that didn’t do muster! I assured them we had because we were with our kids and they did it, which they were checked off as doing it, just not us. When they told me that we hadn’t, I remembered the lady checking us in was having problems with her computer and the way my wife was holding her card. She finally got my wife’s card to scan and it showed her picture on the screen with a green square around it, she looked at me and said you’re John?, I showed my card and she clicked on the picture. I think she was supposed to click on my pic so it would get the green square as being checked in, but she clicked Brenda’s picture again and removed the square. It really wasn’t a big deal, but I felt pretty stupid even though it wasn’t my faultThis is great info, thank you! Did you do the new "e-muster" drill? How did you like it?