I just wanted to say thank you SOO much for providing such a WONDERFUL cruise!! The staff was wonderful, and we hope to cruise with Carnival again sometime soon. My name is katie, i live in Cesterfield Va(Virginia), and i am 11 years old. My sister and i talked to you on the phone while watching your afternoon show in our cabin, and we were told that we would get a prize when we got home from dinner that night, but we never did i know what your thinking, your thinking that its not a big deal, but we were sooo excited to get one of your prizes as a suvenier! I know its too late now but we just wanted to tell you that. Anyway thank you so much for such an AWESOME cruise!! By the way, we cruised from August 9th to August 15th on the Freedom ship!!

Thanks again,
Katie Broas

We will be taking our two girls on their first cruise in April 2010. We decided to do this after my husband and I came back from our very first cruise on the Glory for our 20th anniversary. (I do have to say I was so scared to go on the cruise that I made my self sick because I was so nervous to be on a big boat. After I was on the ship for a few days, I was so much better and had a great time)! I do want to say the staff was great from the steward to the cruise director (Butch). I do want to commend your dining room staff as well! I have an extreme allergy to mushrooms and your hostess worked with me everyday to ensure that I did not get any food with mushrooms. She brought me the menu every evening to preview for the following night. I do have a question for you: Is there any kind of a discount for repeat or second time cruisers? We are currently booked on the Carnival Dream for the week of April 3, 2010, which is Easter week. We want this to be a very special week for our two girls. We thought when we did book the cruise, we were going to get an upgrade but they said we didn’t get one. Our girls will be 14 and 18 at the time of the cruise. Also, will you be doing anything special during that week since it will be Easter week?? We will be going to the Western Carribean. Yes, I’m excited but still a little nervous ) Sure would be nice to meet you!

I’m fairly new to this blog thingy, but would like to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to share with your adventures at sea. It’s just amazing some of the things you have to deal with! I bet you count the minutes until you can get home to that wonderful, beautiful baby girl of yours!

I am a Carnival Platinum cruiser, but will be doing something new this October. We’re booked on our first Back to Back cruise aboard the Carnival Destiny. I am so excited to have one of the larger ships doing the 4/5/5 day itineraries. We’ve sailed the Carnival Imagination 5 times when she did that route and always said we should someday book two in a row and make one long cruise. Well, we’re finally doing it, and since it’s a Destiny class ship, we were able to get a balcony! With that said, I’ve got a couple questions about the B2B that I hope you could please answer.

I’ve read all the info on how we don’t have to pack up our stuff between cruises (have same cabin booked) and that we’ll have to do a quick customs/immigrations check in before getting our new Sail & Sign cards. Once we’ve done that, what will be available to us? I know the crew will be busy turning around the ship, so we don’t want to be in their way. Will we be allowed back into our cabin? Are any of the bars open? What about the pools/hot tubs? Also, I’d kind of like to do a load of laundry – those things that require a little more special care and can’t be sent in the Platinum laundry bag – but I’ve heard that sometimes the laundry rooms are locked in port. Will they be open in Miami?

One other possibly odd question. We’ve got three of us who will be doing the first leg of the B2B, and 6 more joining us on the second leg, including two newbies. Do you think the room steward will let us in their cabin to leave them some little gifts. The newbies are just a couple doors down from us, so I’m hoping we’ll have the same room steward.

Thanks for your time. Can’t wait to read more of your adventures!

Hello John,

My husband and I sailed on the Freedom with you the week of July 4th (the Dick Little cruise). We had a wonderful time, you are absolutely hilarious! While on that cruise, we went ahead and booked a cruise on the Dream on July 3, 2010!

We sailed on our 12th Carnival cruise on July 27th, on the Destiny, cabin#2273. We met up with much disappointment with our cabin on that cruise and have mailed a letter to customer service and were very disheartened by their reply. The problems were as follows: there was a constant offensive odor in the room, the bathroom door would not completely close, the drawers were broken, the window curtain was in disarray, the telephone and remote controls did not work, and there were ants in our cabin! Although Guest Services did try to resolve our problems, we feel that we wasted too much of our precious vacation time trying to find resolutions to our multiple problems. (We only found out that the phone did not work when Guest Services left a note asking us to contact them because they tried repeatedly to reach us by phone. Some more wasted time for us, having to go back to visit the Guest Services Desk again!)

The response from Carnival’s Guest Care representative was extremely insensitive. They basically told us that their records show that the on board staff completed all repairs successfully, and they apologize and could not give us any compensation for this matter.

John, the point of my letter to Carnival was to express that as Concierge Club members, we did not expect to waste any of our cruise vacation time running back and forth to Guest Services to request repair after repair! Fine, they resolved most of the problems, but we should never have had to deal with repair issues on a Carnival cruise!

Don’t you think we deserve anything for all of our wasted time? We’re not asking for a refund, but a little onboard credit on a future cruise would have been a very nice solution.

Please let me know who you think I should contact on this matter.

Thank you and we hope to see you on the Dream!

Thanks for getting us back the pins. Looking forward to getting my next pin from the Carnival Inspiration.
Also want to say we love Carnivals Pizza.

To Retirement Man…why do you assume that someone who has reached platinum status has “money” We work hard and “save” for our cruises and we give up other pleasures so that we can. It’s more of a pleasure to cruise with Carnival than doing other things so that we can afford it.
We don’t expect to be “given” anything.

Diane

Also of course because we have decided to grace you with our presence, we will be expecting lot’s of free stuff and an upgrade to the Captains cabin….

Of course I jest, but how about a coffee in the morning ?

Kadeycat