smokeybandit

I noticed this in the app

You cannot book the key on board

It's still on the docket for my Vision cruise next week. Though there is no 70s attire theme night listed (not that anyone participates anyway)

I don't think the lawsuit is what's keeping the repairs from being finalized. Just typical island time priorities are delaying things. The port authority head honcho said in April that everything was supposed to be ready in May. Of course that never happened.

I actually got a "here are the themes for each night " email for my cruise next week. I've never gotten thar before

So, translating that from corporate-speak to normal people, they changed it because they need more money, and emphasizing casino spending and credit card spending is a good way to get more revenue, thus letting others feel "elite" without having to sail as much.

Live blogs do tend to end up being ship reviews.

"re-imagined" is marketing code for

Brilliance isn't affected by the port issues.

But what, as a passenger, has he changed? Prices have gone up? Of course they have. Prices everywhere have gone up. Is the onboard experience radically different? I know there's a subset of passengers who wish it was still 20 years ago in regards to ship size and types of itineraries, but that group is in the minority anymore.

Poor guy's responses were pretty terrible. "We changed it to be spend-based because we have too many people enrolled" Uh, what?

So adding onto this, I just got an email from Southwest. They're offering BOGO airfare if you book a Norwegian cruise. So Carnival is scrapping traditional loyalty to focus on enticing casino and credit card purchases. Disney cutting its deposits in half. And Norwegian getting into the free airfare business.

Is it also possible they just didn't announce Playmakers for Liberty yet?

Matt putting in the work from his European office.

"We love great food and drinks, live music, fun and games, and would also prefer no children. " Well other than the "great food" part, Hideaway has (or claims to have) all that, Beach Club doesn't.

This wouldn't surprise me if that was just a trial balloon. I haven't seen any positive feedback on any of the various forums/socials.

Though embedding actual pinnacles would be a bit awkward.

If you could get Caribbean weather in the winter in Seattle, sure.

It just seems like a change to make if you need an influx of cash, getting more people to use their credit card and casino. And in a way, almost forcing you to get their credit card. Meanwhile Disney just dropped its deposit amount from 20% to 10%, showing things are slowing for them, too.

We're talking about the restaurant, right, not the mystical place our significant others send us?

C&A status isn't relevant for your luggage tags so don't sweat it. There is only one luggage tag per cabin, so the system must have just picked up her to base it on.

I'm curious of the raw data since it's only kids and older folks affected. But trying to search VAERS data is useless.

Tying it into the credit card dumbs it down, too.

The feedback on the Carnival CC forum is as expected. Not well received at all.