Carnival Cruisers Upset with Official Change
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Carnival cruise line has revealed that there has been an official change with the dining room and some cruisers are upset. I cruise passenger is trying to get a refund for her canceled Greenland excursion. A hurricane is impacting cruises and a man was denied access to an eatery on my latest cruise.
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I'm an older millennial, so I probably sound so old saying this, but it's true. People get away with WAY too much these days. Following the rules is not the end of the world. I wish cruise lines would enforce rules more strictly and start banning people who raise a big fuss over not wanting to follow those rules. I wish most places enforced basic etiquette because people who constantly want it their way and run over others to get their way tend to RUIN the experience for everyone else.
I'm a boomer and I agree with ya! 😊
@@sharonjackson1216
mee too
@scottulbrich5376 and I agree also.
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You’re right on it 100% it only takes one person to ruin it for everybody else.
If they told me I could not call it a dining room, I would start calling it a nutritional chemical distribution center.
😂😂😂
Good one! 😂
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I would call it a piehole filling station.
😂😂😂😂😂 I love that! I’m using it
I was so blessed. I booked an excursion with a private company as there wasn't any spots left on the ships excursions that day. They clearly stated No Refunds. As I knew only death would keep me from going, I booked. Then my husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer 3 weeks before we sailed and I had to cancel. I notified that company that we wouldn't be sailing just so they didn't wait on us and could offer the seats to someone else. I never asked for a refund but they gave me one anyway. And they didn't ask for any proof. I would give them the best reviews but I don't want others expecting exceptions to the no refund rule. If I do get to take that cruise one day I will book with them.
I pray the Lord gives both of you comfort and support as you go through this. May you be able to go on that cruise in the future and take that excursion. Amen.
😢 blessings to you. Hope you both get to go on that cruise and many more.
My husband and I did the exact same thing on Bingo on NCL Jade in the Mediterranean in 2015 and won an upgrade to the largest suite in the fleet. 4600 sq ft 2-floor Garden Villa. 3 bedroom, 3.5 baths, foyer, bar, huge living room, indoor dining room, outdoor dining room, 3 person steamroom, full size outdoor hot tub, an upper sundeck with a hammock and lots of comfy chairs plus a player baby grand piano! It was amazing. I think that cost $30k back then for the week. We only had it for 5 days but held several parties in it for people we met. Only bought the standard $70 pack of bingo cards.
I too got majorly screwed by Sandra O'Leary on that same Greenland cruise. She sells excursions in Europe also and on most Journeys cruises. She absolutely did change the language after we did not port. There's also documentation to prove she was reimbursed for all but $7.50 USD per person by the Greenland vendors we were supposed to use on those excursions, but we never saw any of the money back from her. I did get my money back EVENTUALLY and after a lot of work on my part, but I had to file through my travel insurance which isn't fair that they had to reimburse me while she pocketed all of our money and them jumped ship and ran home when we docked in Canada. PLEASE AVOID THIS TOUR COMPANY!
Thanks for the warning!
Didn't they name it the MDR?
That's terrible, she seems to be a real winner.
She might’ve changed the language on the website, but didn’t you have a receipt from when you paid for the excursion? when I booked an excursion directly for my Alaskan cruise, all the emails receipt had refund information. It shouldn’t matter what her website says now if you have proof from your invoice.
Thanks for the warning! This lady may have “won” this “battle” but she’s definitely lost the “war” in that she is now known as a scammer by many more potential customers (me and my family included). I hope the money she obsconded with was worth it. She’ll never see a penny from me or anyone I know.
Rebranding the MDR as a restaurant is a subtle, long-term strategy to change consumer mindset. If they can convince cruisers to think of it as a restaurant then they'll be more likely to spend cash for upcharges, cocktails, extra lobsters, and whatever new charges the execs can dream into existence. Because that's how restaurants work! You pay at a restaurant, and this one is already giving you a free meal, how awesome is that! This will be most effective with new cruisers and long-term they'll be able to monetize the MDR.
I agree with you on the long term effects. They think they are so slick. Already you have to pay for certain items on the menu; you have to pay for how many extra entress now? In the long term they might actually start charging for the restaurant and start with elegant night when they serve the fancy meals and figure that if they get you to pay on that night, wait a while and start charging for every night. You do have an option to go to the buffet or other places on the ship for fast food. Sneaky!
@@mariebrooks7341 exactly!!!
Sounds like Carnival has a glut of managers trying to justify their existence…
Sounds to me like the first step toward charging for all meals ala carte. We all expect to pay for dinner at a restaurant, but not in our dining room. Wanna bet they start offering deals with "reduced" rates if you pay for all your dinners as add ons?
@@terriellis3697 That was my first thought. These new ships they are turning out have a pile of paid restaurants, With the name change, it wont be long that will have a fee attached too. Probably only the ledo will be included being that its self service and not waited on.
My first thought was that the Carnival execs want people to start thinking of the MDR as a "restaurant" so in the future they can start charging people extra for eating there.
That was my thought too.🙄
that's my thought too...
we've been waiting for that hammer to drop...
If that happens, I'll stop cruising. Included meals is one big reason that cruising makes vacationing more affordable than an on land vacation. They've already pulled back on so MANY things that used to be included, but if they stop dining room meals, just won't do it.
Too much competition to pull that off. I think they make MDR less desirable for upselling specialty restaurants
You can’t go to certain restaurants dressed inappropriately. If you don’t like the dress code then don’t go on the cruise. It’s really quite simple.
I just got off the icon of the Seas last week. There's some ding dong that walked in with a black workout tank top style shirt, black gym shorts, and a black hat turned around like a punk and they let him walk right in and sit down and eat on the dress your best night. They really should enforce their dress codes
Maybe they should just loudly announce “See this guy (point)? He’s dressed his best! Let’s let him know what we think of him“ Everyone pull out their phone to video and photograph him while booing and / or saying “BUM! TRASH!”
They should enforce all the rules or get rid of them. No smoking in the balcony is a rule for safety yet almost 50 percent of the time I have smokers smoking near my balcony and nothing is done.
@@traveler320ak7 : How many times have you reported this fact? You’d be the first to scream if they put very sensitive smoke detectors on the balconies and or cameras. Oh MY privacy! You’d scream. Report or don’t complain. Every time.
@@stsfuzzybear4613 that would be awesome!
Probably WAS his best. His other shirts are all covered in dubious designs and logos, and his other shorts and hats are... well, lets just say 'unappropriate'
So glad they are enforcing dining room attire standards. It detracts from the experience to have to sit next to someone who looks like they have been in their ‘work in the yard clothes’.
Whatever the standard is, they need to add, showered and clean clothes to the rules.
Exactly. The cruise line is trying to create an "experience" with the main dining room dress code. Why not just follow the rules???
Come on. We all know why Carnival wants to rename the MDR as a restaurant. Restaurants are where you pay for dinner. I will be shocked if Carnival doesn’t at least test cruises with no free MDR.
That’s when I would stop cruising with them…
I think you're absolutely right.😢
Yikes!
I won’t cruise on those! I don’t pay for the extra pay restaurants
I agree with you. I might to got to the main dining room aka restaurant on embarkation day and on elegant night. Most of the time, I eat at the buffet because I can eat when I want and still catch the comedy show or any other event and not be in the main dining room aka restaurant having to endure courses of meals and a long time in between. smh
That's why I always book excursions with the cruise line. More expensive but less stress
Me too! It's hassle free.
I also. Better safe than sorry.
@@TheMissPooveyI’ve been on the excursion where a tender and the ship had to wait for us. If it wasn’t a Carnival we would have been left. I will always pay the extra.
Congrats to the guy who won the $50k upgrade. Just be ready for a Form 1099 from Azimara , cause you just had $50K of gambling winnings.
And a future $11K - 17.5K or so tax bill.
Cruise line management has lost their minds. Their bent is removing benefits, so they will charge for the same thing. Reduce port time to allow the ship to travel at a reduced speed to save fuel and add dollars to the cruise line. Reduce portions in the MDR to sway passengers to use specialty restaurants to increase revenue. Cut back on bar staff so "drinks included" will be a 15 to 20 minute wait. On and on and on again. Come on, just say NO.
I wish the wait for a drink was only 15 minuets, my last cruise on the Mardi Gras 5 months ago, in the time I spent in the casino, more than 3 times I only managed to get 1 drink, I am not really a drinker but when they are free, I like to get one now and again, no such luck.
We were going on a Bermuda cruise when a category three hurricane was headed there. We showed up at the cruise port in Miami or Fort Lauderdale I can’t remember which one, knowing that we weren’t going to Bermuda ,but that we would go somewhere fun ,probably in the southern or western Caribbean no big deal. While standing in line people were talking about going to Bermuda and we said we won’t be going there and the people in line said we haven’t heard anything about going anywhere else so I think we’re going to Bermuda still. We know there’s a hurricane headed there with 60 foot waves,we’ll go somewhere else. Within minutes someone comes down the line with our new itinerary. Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos‘s, private island and somewhere I can’t remember lol😂. They gave us 100.00 pp room credit, discount drinks and several other things. We had a blast but the lobby was full of people who wanted their money back or more from the company. You have to know when you book a cruise during hurricane season, this can happen. They still wanted to go to Bermuda. I don’t think they understood the power of the storm.
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Seems like CCL executives should pay more attention to passenger brawls and stop changing names of venues. MDR and Tender boats are now “Restaurant” and “water shuttles”! How much do these clowns make for these stupid changes?
When you book a cruise, you are agreeing to the rules which clearly state a dress code. If you don't like it, don't go on that cruise line.
Exactly
Fighting, drunken behavior, rampaging kids, and now playing with names. Do these people know what goes happens on their ships?
I’ve never seen any of that and I’ve done 14 Carnival cruises.
Never seen on several carnival cruises
I've given up on carnival & their free casino offers .. went to princess much nicer.. there def courting families & younger ppl..
Chair Hoggs too!
I thought carnival was trying to get away from their image of bringing a drunken party ship. Definitely need to enforce the dress code for the dining room.
Men’s tank tops have been a no -no at restaurants for quite some time. To be blunt, I think it’s the underarm hair factor! Still chuckle at that ending song!😄
I've never been to a restaurant in my life which would turn away a man in a tank top.
My thought also.
No it’s not discrimination. Men going out to a restaurant or any store wearing an undershirt(or “wife beater shirt”) in my opinion is tacky to say the least and I wouldn’t let my son or husband go to the store without putting a shirt over it.
Exactly!!
Kinda like women in halter tops and booty shorts.
@@slimtny or going shopping in their ratty pajamas and slippers
I agree, many people anymore don’t have any kind of manners.
They think since they paid for something they can do as they please. These are the same people that are always late, also making excuses for everything and thinking rules don’t apply to them because they are “special”. It always does my heart good when something happens that brings it home that rules apply to them and they are definitely not special.
Sandra O'Leary may find the consequent bad PR costs her more than refunds as a good will gesture. I certainly would be "leery" of booking those excursions.
At least dress appropriately to the dining room. It's not burger King your way. It's our dining room.
On Carnival? You must be kidding.
Well, I’m not sure what appropriately means but I’m not wearing anything different than I wear on the other days of my cruise. Shorts and a T-shirt, because I’m on vacation I wear a uniform of sorts seven days a week for months at a time I’m not doing it on vacation.
I felt out of place with my full suit on the carnival
"Our" would imply it belongs to everyone, not just you. No one complains if you want to dress in formal attire, so why should you complain if someone else dresses casually? Bear in mind I do not mean sloppy, but neat, clean shorts or jeans with a neat, clean polo or even t-shirt are fine as long as they're not frayed, torn, soiled, wet, or have profanity.
@sosaix3545 But many, on Carnival, are dirty and everything else you described.
We had problems last year with this same Sandra. Cruise was canceled, had a tour booked with her and while we got some money back, she refused to give us a 100% refund.
Do you have the website address, please..?
Bet she's laughing all the way to the bank!!! Everyone needs to get together and make sure she goes to jail.👍
NCL is the only cruise line we have seen people turned away from the “restaurants “. I think it’s great.
But they won’t stop kids from diving in a 3.5 ft drop adults only pool!
I was on that Greenland cruise. Carnival did have excursions and refunded the money immediately for those excursions. The people who booked the excursions with Sandra were really unhappy. I didn't like the looks of them prior to booking, so didn't. Buyer beware!
I've heard that there aren't a ton of cruise lines excursions in that region and those they run fill up really fast. Could be this lady just waited too long and everything was full.
When we booked the cruise initially, 2 years before it sailed, John Heald announced that there would be no excursions. That's when the majority of us booked with Sandra. When this initial sailing sold out in 1 hour, before actually hitting the booking website, they listed several more Greenland cruises, and then as our cruise got closer, Carnival decided they would actually offer excursions. The whole thing was a giant mess that turned out even worse when we didn't make it there.
One really good reason to book through the cruise line.
@@maurinet2291 I found it the other way around. Sandra's were full and the cruise line had plenty of space
@@shelet2000 Yup, we booked it 2 year out on the first day and booked our excursions from Carnival about 6 months prior to the trip. I left the ship with cash from the refunds from Carnival.
I wish all lines would enforce the dress code; especially no swimwear (without a cover up) in the restaurants (I.e. Buffet)
I agree
My understanding is the No tank top for men is more to do with hygiene. Most men do not shave their armpits and most women do. No one wants an armpit hair floating into their food 🤢🤮
Following that logic, women should put on the headcover as female shed head hair than men. Gentlemen's attire decorum is imposed which is part of social etiquette.
My stomach turns when a guy in a tank top reaches over the food at the buffet. Hairs and deodorant flakes 🤢
@@robinshultz2927 The sushi restaurant isn't a buffet
Thanks for the updates and cruise news!!
It occurred to me a few years ago on an NCL cruise that the cruise lines would like to slowly eventually eliminate included "free" food on cruises. Calling the Dining Room a restaurant is just another step in that direction. The paid food choices are getting more and more and free food choices are getting smaller and less and less on most of the cruise lines. It's all about maximizing profits. Similar move to what the airlines did over the years when they eliminated included food on flights, then seat room and leg room got smaller, and now you even have to pay extra to bring a carry-on or check a bag. Soon several years from now you will go on a cruise and have to pay for anything you eat. Not sure if the included buffet or the included Dining Room will be the last to go.
No a strapless cocktail outfit is not the same as a tank top. No discrimination there.
Congrats on the upgrade. That's awesome.
Love the Alice's Restaurant callout! My family listens to that every year on Thanksgiving
@@shelbaaaay100 The Arlo Guthrie version? Or Ludacris’
Was quite happy seeing MSC turn away people dressed in shorts for Gala night. Though it was harder to find the dress code or Gala night notation.
IT'S THE MAIN DINING ROOM! IF THEY WANTED TO CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFOREHAND!
Last time I checked, it didn't matter what ship you are on or what the company is if you go to a specialty restaurant you have to dress up. And then it says right there in the restaurant dress code I'm pretty sure that all ships in every company require you to not wear tank tops, hoodies, robes, short shorts, jeans with holes or tears, and caps or hats are not permitted. I'm pretty sure that's the rule in all main dining rooms.
Yeah because that's how fancy restaurants work also well any restaurant that's not black tie!
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Great video. On our last cruise due to a flight issue we missed our pre-cruise tour of Lisbon, which was non refundable. Trip insurance paid us a refund of the missed tour.
Underware is not ok. The shirt that you described is underware.
One time on princess, there was a couple who were told to leave and change their clothes. He had on shorts and a flight wife beater shirt that looked about 4 sizes too small and stained all over. She had on hot pink short shorts (she was about 250 lbs) and a tank top with everything hanging out. This dinner in the mdr. It was truly disgusting
Why did you mention 250lbs? Would it have made a difference if she was 110lbs? Smh!
@@QueenKayKay47Yes!
@@QueenKayKay47Yes, yes it would😂🤣.
@@district12- for immature folks I guess 🥴
Ew. 😂
No, I’m glad they’re enforcing their dress code because Carnival has a so-called dress code and they don’t enforce it
Once you have sailed in a class 5 storm you will never want to do it again.
Or you discover that you're someone like me who gets a thrill out of it.
If carnival drops dining rooms I’ll stop cruising. Forced you to pay for dinners
Thanks for another great show! Happen to catch it right when posted today. The whole carnival name change is so silly lol Let's focus on important things like getting the hammocks back on the dream class! Lol
Ooh hammocks!
Or Carnival is positioning themselves to start charging for the restaurant “MDR”
Looks like it-I won’t cruise with them
Now that you mention the “thing” about the MDR being called a restaurant, I realize that on my last cruise 2 weeks ago the did keep referring to it as a restaurant. It threw us off the first night because we then went searching for the MDR. 😅
Shout out Arlo Guthrie! I play Alice’s Restaurant every Thanksgiving Day.
Great song right!
I said years ago that at on point in the future that the Buffet would end up being the only free sit down dining option.....and by calling it a resturant they are moving towards charging for this dining option soon.....I see only the Buffet included with the lowest fair in the future. We will see, i have been cruising since 1997 when you had soda machines on deck for free and ALL eating places were included in your cruise price. You could buy a bottle of liquor and take it back to your cabin the first day, Chocolates on your pillow, robes and slippers for everyone at night. And I have watched it slowly move to what ot is today ,,,, Sad but it iswhat it is.
Carnival can call their MDRs whatever they want, it doesn’t change the fact that the food still sucks. The only decent meals on Carnival are in their specialty restaurants.
100% this, ive only been on two cruises both carnival and the food in the mdr was terrible and half ass cold. we ate buffet most time or got a guy burger or piece of pizza or a burrito.and wtf is up with places on the boat to eat being closed when you get back from shore?they could close the main dining room for all i care and put in a always open food court. we were always so tired from being ashore doing stuff going to the dining room didnt appeal to us at all. we just wanted a shower, quick food and a little time for a show (maybe ) before my eyes fell shut.
Sadly
Concerning the poorly dressed cruiser, the restaurant hostess should have told him that he isn't being discriminated against, he can wear a dress with spaghetti straps to dinner also.🤣
Problem is he'd probably do it and she'd be up shits creek.
I figured it was that men must wear a collared shirt. That's not a rule for women, usually, hence the spaghetti straps, strapless, etc
I'm tempted! I'll shave my underarms and put on my girlfriend's more temperature comfortable dress if they'd let me. I'm not a fan of having to wear long pants and collared shirts, especially when it is warm enough that you aren't cold wearing spaghetti straps.
If they charge for MAIN DINING ROOM I’m jumpin ship going elsewhere.
I went on the August Greenland cruise in 2023, and there were plenty of excursions. If you waited until the last minute, they were sold out.
There weren't any for a long time, so people booked with Sandra. Heald kept saying they were "working" on excursions. Took too long. I was ok with Sandra...but she did change the language when the Sept cruuse hit rough seas. Thsts just crooked. I pulled my old order...and it says full refund if a port is missed!
Sure was glad you got so animated about the MDR because watching your hide and seek t-shirt got me very curious about what it said below and when you threw up your arms I got the rest Loved it.
I agree. If content creators are going to wear shirts that say stuff, there should be a rule that they have to show us the full shirt. Just saying...
😂😂😂😂 I had to go back and view that section after reading this comment
Restaurant = Because 'customers' , not passengers, are more likely to tip servers so they don't have to pay them more. Carnival's clandestine theft of us loyalists is becoming a real reason to 'jump' to competitors.
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Welcome home! It looked like the trip was a good one. Better last week than this week! As to the guy with the wife beater on: have some class! You cannot buy it, you either have it or you don't.
Hi tony.I think you are great.. I look.forward to your updates..from Canada.. ❤
We were just on Jubilee and in the hub app, the dining rooms were called the Atlantic and the Pacific but not the dining room.
The difference is when a man wears a tank top because of his chest hair and hairy underarm pits. A woman has no such problem because most women shave there under arm and don't have hairy underarm pits. It is just nasty that your pits and chest hair could be left on the table😮.
Look forward to the cruise news and your views. Went on an NCL cruise once. Not a fan of that cruise line. Some years ago a fellow cruiser was very unhappy about out not going to the DR. A hurricane came through there. I only purchase one set of BINGO cards. The Legend is a nice ship. The staff did a lot for my wife who was undergoing physical problems at the time.
As far as the dining room is concerned, cruising used to be a privilege. One that was enjoyed by people who could afford formal and informal dining rooms in their home (think Titanic). I'm not one of those people, however, I started cruising with Carnival in 1996. All the way up to 2019, my family would dress for dinner each night. It was one of those things that I looked forward to each day. I'm talking about men in suits and women in ballgowns for the Captains Dinner and wearing our Sunday "best" the other nights. We wouldn't have been caught dead in the MDR wearing sneakers, cut off jeans or t-shirts. The culture started to change once pricing for the cruises started to bottom out (Fun Ship = cheap vacation). We couldn't believe some of the outfits that people were allowed to wear to a formal dining room. It might as well be called a restaurant now with a sign on the door that reads, "No shoes, no service". There are too many visitors who have this "You are trampling on my 'Merican rights" when they are asked to follow a rule. Or the, "It's my vacation, I can do what I want" crowd. They bully the staff because they understand English is not their first language and it becomes a fun little sport to torture people who can't defend themselves. When you are on a cruise, there are so many food options on board where you can find your happy place. The fact that so many people want to lessen a dining experience by doing things their way is beyond me.
I went in the lates 70s with my parents and like you say we dressed for dinner every night, the only exception was the 1st and last night and if you were overnight in port. And there was only one restaurant no 24/7 buffet or speciality restaurants
My fam still dresses for dinner. Nothing over the top but to me it's just normal to change and dress appropriately for the occasion. But I see things are changing. At the risk of sounding old, I don't like it. LOL
Yeah, we’ll see you on the Lido but not in the main dining room!😅
Words seem to have much meaning when they come from cruise line corporate. Remember when Royal changed the name of the Diamond lounge to Crown. Then the Diamonds got shut out of evenings. If changing the name of the MDR means more pay for items on the menu that were free before I predict it may be the last straw.
We watched Jasmine on Jade turn away a party in front of us because of their clothing.
They argued.
The resteraunt manager won.
I see them turn away lots of people. One guy argued because he had to take off his hat. He lost.
Yes please enforce rules and a dress with straps is much dressier than a “ muscle” shirt
IT'S A DINING ROOM! What are they going to do, kick you off the ship? Ban you for life?! 🙄
Lots of interesting news. It is odd that Carnival is changing the name of MDR. I would think they would keep MDR to distinguish it more from the specialty eateries where they stand out as restaurants where you pay. Are they building up to something? MDR is part of cruising to me. The guy in the tank got what he deserved. Rules are rules. Don’t try and change them at the door. Love the show. Thanks.❤
I think that there are more pressing issues for the Carnival execs to address to justify their salaries than what name tag to give a dining room on their ships.
It isn’t about how much skin is showing. It is about how formal the outfit is
Formal? Any female with their stuff hanging out all over is never formal cover it up!!
Me and my family was on that Greenland cruise and we also booked excursions through Sandra OLeary which we also got stiffed and no refunds.
We went to Ireland and Iceland on the Pride last August. There were heaps of cruisers on the Facebook group saying they were booking day tours with Sandra O'Leary. We didn't, as we always book via the cruiseline, or arrange sightseeing when we arrive into port. We missed one port in Iceland due to a storm and received our tour money back straight away from Carnival. We saw heaps of FB chatter from people worried about not getting a response from Ms O'Leary regarding refunds. We opted out of the group after the cruise, and I've always wondered what happened.
I will start calling MDR the cafeteria on Carnival ships, no table cloths, use same utensils for the whole meal, beg for bread, bring your own drinks, plonk your food and run away, sounds like a cafeteria to me.
Sounds like you need to cruise the bit more exclusive lines.
Does the change to restaurant mean they're going to start charging to eat there?
That would end cruising for us. The Mexican all inclusive resorts would be a way better choice if they start doing that.
shout out Luda!
We listen to his “Alice’s Restaurant” every thanksgiving.
When John Heald first announced this sailing he said there would be no tours in Greenland it was not until a few months before the cruise that, that changed and they offered tours. By that time we already had our tours booked. Sandras booking page clearly said the tour was refundable and when she was questioned on Facebook she said that if we didn't get there it was refundable. After it was announced we were not going to get to Greenland she jumped ship at the first port in Canada and changed the terms on her website after the fact. As a business you just can't do that. She had great reviews on her website so we thought we were safe. Only later did we find out that if a negative review is posted she deletes them. I also am owed a refund I am resigned to the fact I will not see my money but I question was it really worth all this bad publicity over a few hundred dollars owed to each passenger, hundreds of us to be exact.
A few hundred dollars of their money, NOT HERS.
Someone else posted that she got reimbursed from the tour companies SHE booked her excursions with, so she got double the money. That has to be illegal if it’s true.
It is absolutely not discrimination. This isn't a fast food restaurant. He can wear sleeves.
They want to call it a restaurant so they can start charging for meals there.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING 🙏🛳
I do know one thing - due to your previous video we booked on the Margaritaville shorty trip to Cozamel in Dec. and I plan on wearing spaghetti straps the whole way
They will charge you, like in a restaurant. That's why it matters!
I'm on the Margaritaville at Sea Islander right now and we have been rerouted from Progresso to Nassau. Not disappointed at all.
I believe it's tough that the person at the restaurant reception desk is the unfortunate one who has to break the news to those who do not meet the dress codes posted. I agree it's great that policies get followed through on.
The college I went to used to charge for parking. Then they "rolled it into the tuition" by raising the price of tuition and no longer charging for parking. For about 2 years. Then they said "we can no longer provide free parking" and started charging for it again. Of course they did NOT roll back the tuition increase that covered "free" parking...
What in the carnival is going on?
It will always be the MDR
We did the Azamara bingo buying just 1 ticket for $20 and won the upgrade to the suite in 2019 just before Covid as in your story . We had never seen inside a suite before! Butler and all. It was amazing 🤩 ❤
Great video ❤❤❤❤
I hope they don’t start charging the dining room. We look forward to the two nights we dress up and attend. If I have to pay I may as well go to a specialty restaurant and pay☹️😞. However the dining room gives us the dress up night with family and friends, and everyone can choose whatever they want to eat 🥰
The rules are the rules period. Follow the dress code or don’t go.
We were on the Greenland cruise and booked two tours through Sandra's tours. Same outcome as Jill no money back. The credit card company not looking into the website change is frustrating. Lessons learned.
I was on the earlier cruise to Greenland, August 2023. We had an amazing cruise and beautiful weather. Carnival did offer some excursions plus there were several opportunities to book once on shore. Sandra O’Leary offered excursions on our cruise as well.
Love your show (as usual). Quality news with a (modest) flair.😁 Going on the Carnival Paradise out of Tampa this fall, then upon disembarkation, headed to the Carnival Sunrise out of Miami (same day). Thinking you’ve done this before (Tampa and Miami), I would appreciate any advice/travel directions for a smooth transition.🙏🏻🛳️😎
Valet park in Tampa. They have your car ready to go.
Thanks for the entertainment
I was on that cruise to Greenland last year. We didn’t go to any port in Greenland because of the weather.
Hi Tony. Lot's of news today. MDR, dining room, restaurant. Whatever they call it. I'm thinking they want to say Restaurant to make it sound more "upscale". The person who booked the excursion with some unknown person. Wow, if I book a third party I do alot of research before giving my money to them. Praying for everyone in the path of the massive early hurricane. As always thank you for all you do ❤
The difference between a woman's sleeveless top and a man's tank top is class. The cruise dress codes are to establish a certain level of class for different areas of the ship; it's not about the amount of exposed skin.
Eww. Its not the titanic. You're not 1st class and them 3rd.
@@jamiesaxton6840 believe it or not, there is still a large segment of society that believes in dressing appropriately in certain circumstances.
@@jamiesaxton6840I could be wrong, but I took the OP as meaning “having class” not “social class.”
That guy has a point though some women show up wearing next to nothing!!😂😂🤓🤓
@@donnaneeley9920 So true. I've seen some definitely "not classy" outfits worn. 🤷♂
Restaurant: First they change the name (Dining Room), then the price goes up.
It’s not discrimination because they did not base their decision on the amount of skin shown, but rather the style or fanciness of your outfit. A male or female, could go to the restaurant wearing a full body covering set of long underwear on, and they would be refused service for their style of clothing.
The U.S. IRS is crazy... the couple with the $50K upgrade, will most likely have to count that as income, and pay taxes on the upgrade. I would have to turn it down to avoid the taxes.
That's a very good point. I assume the cruise line treats that the same as winning the casino, and collects the 1099 tax information -- I assume they do that? Since they only open the casinos when they are out of US territorial waters, technically they are not subject to US law and they may not be required to. Assuming the passenger is a US citizen, they are required to self-report it, as you said -- but unless the cruise line is reporting it, there isn't much incentive for them to do so, and probably 15000 reasons not to!
I didn't hear anything mentioned about where the ship was sailing or the nationality of the cruiser.
U.S IRS will have no say in the matter if it's a European cruise and the cruiser is not a U.S citizen