Hey Tony, just an fyi that those Babbel examples you showed us were Brazilian Portuguese accent and since you’re going to Lisbon, original Portuguese would be best. Obrigado!
Just got off a Carnival cruise (Dream) and discovered the ship was 30% understaffed. My room steward, who started his contract on our cruise, had THIRTY-THREE rooms - including suites -- to clean by himself. I guess the days of Carnival having a steward with two assistants is over. Needless to say, we doubled his tip.
What pisses me off about this cop is that he’s going to get 6 to 8 months of free pay before he gets fired that we the taxpayers have to pay.this other nonsense shut out Ludacris
@@dvandkqunions are garbage everywhere. Worst job I ever had. Old tenured slugs get taken care of despite doing nothing while the hungry folks with less tenure doing the work get shafted. Not to mention you can never seem to fire the slugs.
In 2018, after more than 100 days cruising with Carnival, we stopped cruising with Carnival. With all of Carnival’s cutbacks (service/food/entertainment) and the decision to become the party cruise line (booze; drugs; & MMA), Carnival no longer offers the cruise experience we like.
I'm glad the punishments are back. They make me chuckle. I just watched a video from three years ago and realized that I haven't heard a punishment in a while. So i'm happy you brought them back!!!
My whine about the buffet breakfast is that it CLOSES before I even wake up!!! I'm on FREAKING VACATION.. I'm sleeping in!! How about keeping it open until 11, close for an hour and do lunch at noon. Maybe they could transition to lunch while continuing to serve breakfast.
😂😂😂😂 i use to say the same thing. Im on vacation i dont wanna wake up early. But i do understand there r early risers and i cant b selfish for those workers who are not on vacation. Now i just go with the flow BC IM ON VACATION 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 no complaints from me 😅
Split the difference! Open it at 6:30 that way you will get most of the early risers out of the way and then between 7 and 7:30 it won't be so busy anymore because you won't have everyone trying to line up for food at the same time.
in 2022 they canceled our Jan 2024 cruise and then only offered a $200 per person on line credit for a new booking. However, the new booking for almost identical cruise was 78% more in cost. We never rebooked and will probably not do Norwegian ever as they left a bad taste in our mouth. We may do others if hubby gets well enough to cruise again as he can't now.
Speaking of bacon. We were recently on a 9 day NCL cruise, and ended up talking to one of the head buffet chefs. He said they ordered 11000lbs of bacon for our cruise. Yes, you read that right... ELEVEN THOUSAND! 😮 He said they usually go through about 1200lbs a day. Crazy.
Porto, Lisbon was my favorite cruise port stop - had a great semi-private tour. Of course we ended in Rome for 2 days and so far nothing else has topped Rome!
I really enjoy your entertaining videos with a song now and again! Being retired and not wanting to be early risers anymore, we just get room service breakfast in our robes!
So... I read the City Managers report from Belfast, ME. According to the chamber of commerce the cruise ships didn't generate a lot of income for local businesses and the ships created a nuisance for local use of the harbor. The harbor master believed that docking fees would be easily achieved from other users.
Refusing to sail on Carnival just because the Lido buffet doesn't open until 7am? Sounds pretty silly to me. I can understand the desire to want to eat earlier than 7am on certain port days because you think you need to, such as days when you are scheduled to begin disembarking at 8am and you have an excursion scheduled at 8:30 am. But, and this is based solely on my own personal experiences, you still have plenty of time to grab breakfast and make it down to the gangway and get to your excursion meeting location by 8:30am even when the buffet doesn't open until 7am. My advice to those people refusing to sail on Carnival because the buffet doesn't open until 7am - sleep for an extra hour...or enjoy a stroll around the jogging track...or enjoy a cup of coffee as the ship docks...or do something else you enjoy. Life is too short to be getting your panties on a bunch over a buffet time. Shout out to Ludacris!
I don’t cruise Carnival for a myriad of reasons and one those is they are continually cutting perks like a budget cruise line but charge the price of one that DOES have bacon everyday and opens the buffet at 6. Too many other cruise lines to choose from to be bothered by their nonsense.
Do NOT fail to eat Pasteis de Nata while you are in Portugal. These tarts are beyond amazing. You will not be disappointed I promise. Wish I was heading there.
Tony, My wife and I just watched todays post. We both agree that when it comes to your smooth dance moves….please please please….don’t give up your day job! Love your posts daily…thanks….
Just sailed on the Nautica. Great small ship. we had 643 passengers on our cruise. I'd love to book another cruise on that ship or one of their other small ships. Oceania isn't cheap but found it good value for the money. Happy birthday, Nautica!
Allure was doing the Groove cruise. It is a chartered cruise. I am doing the Rock Legends cruise on February 13th. It is a chartered charity fund raiser for the Native American Heritage association. I can hardly wait
I'm an early riser (not by choice! Work trained me to wake up at 5:30) so there will be times when I'll wish it opened at 6, but especially on vacation, I expect my daily routine to take a major hit. It's part of why I'm on vacation. I can only say that I'm glad I've learned to be more flexible because it would stink if I felt the need to limit myself to the degree some folks seem to.
The language I'm studying is Auslan: Australian Sign Language. It's the equivalent of ASL, BSL and others. I'm told that speakers of the sign languages can muddle through conversations with people knowing different signs. "Blowing in the Wind", 70s era, maybe 60s. One of the truly famous artists of that time, maybe Bob Dylan.
@@Reed-2big Sorry, Mabe I should have stated my favorite, French Toast. Breads that typically contain eggs include challah, brioche, panettone, some sweet breads.
@ Agreed with the sweet breads. French toast is often made with a variety of breads but it needs an egg batter! And I think my challah recipe I don’t think has eggs either, but that’s just one recipe!! I have a bunch of basically fruit bar recipes, about half use eggs which means they mold faster. I would add that too many cake mixes also need eggs, which can be annoying late at night. For baking there are a few substitutes that can work but I wouldn’t be even willing to try those or even powdered eggs on French toast. Before this started happening I did notice that many MDR omelets were finally making 2 egg omelets! A good move, I thought! Fair enough tho
Loved the dance. Great to see you enjoying yourself! ☺️ It’s always so much fun to watch your videos. Not only informative but warm, funny and a lovely daily thing to do while I have my brekky. 😊 Then I go and do my power walking in the heated indoor pool downstairs. That’s my mental health routine. So yes Tony. You’re part of my mental health routine so please keep doing your thang. 😂
I'll be doing the Canada/New England cruise in June with Holland. Thought about Princess, but didn't include Quebec which is one of the ports we are looking forward to. Sailed on the Enchanted last July to the Caribbean. First time on Princess and we enjoyed very much. We have booked Princess this December to the ABC islands.
I find it annoying that they keep changing the hours of their buffet. I don't think that's it's just the breakfast, it's more all the changes and now I can be quite hungry cause they close the buffet in the afternoon and then open for dinner close at 9:00 and even though it says 9:30 they are putting all the stuff away before it's actually closed. I do find it annoying. The breakfast thing is just one more, where people were used to be able to eat then now go and they are not able to.
Wow that 7am buffet time is a deal breaker if your shore excursions are early ones, I wanna say I have had two that we left the ship at 8 am I'm glad RC's is open early and has mounds of bacon 🥓 😂😅😊
We were on tge Celebration 3 weeks ago and the street eats was supposed to be open a 12 noon on the app but opened a 2pm one day. The only had 3 strategically placed ice cream cone machines mostly at the Aft, long walk from our spa cabin. Movies sucked. We actually parked by a princess ship that was playing the princess Bride with sub titles we watched from our balcony. Lol This was my first post covid cruise, I'm still a gold member, and boy tge food has gone down hill in quality and variety. I'm going back tobtge Magic in July, has a bigger spa, better food, better layout etc in my opinion. Hey, what's your preference?
Ola Tony! Portugal is such a beautiful country. Voce is the ‘proper’ or the respectful way of saving you. Tu also means you 😊. Porto and Aveiro is beautiful. Sintra has the castles. Cascais is the L.A of Lisboa. Algarve in the south has beautiful beaches. Have fun! 🇵🇹
I don't think there's a bacon shortage, maybe just a shortage of suppliers willing to sell at Carnival's contracted price when they can get more money elsewhere.
Carnival’s bacon suppler probably got hit with bird flu . There is a shortage of eggs because of bird flu. That is why there is a mad rush to buy eggs.
I only eat breakfast on the last day of the cruise unless I have a really early excursion and may not be back for lunch. I don't much care when they open/close breakfast.
I don't really care when they open the buffet unless we have an early excursion. I get up at my leisure. My husband, who's an early riser, goes down as soon as it opens and brings a croissant and lox back to the room for me.😊😊
Yeah I hate when Carnival rations out the bacon in the morning . They give you one piece and mean mug you like keep it moving. They do the same thing with the dinner roasts too. 😂😂
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Hey Tony, just an fyi that those Babbel examples you showed us were Brazilian Portuguese accent and since you’re going to Lisbon, original Portuguese would be best. Obrigado!
I'm on vacation I'm not getting up early and really not going to the buffet at 6 or 7 am on any Cruiseline ever.
I love your style of videos ! Your personality is so high energy / quirky and I’m here for it ! 🎉 thanks for the news
Thanks!
The only way I'd be eating at 6 or 7 a.m. is if I'm still up from the night before 😅
@@patriciareynolds1800 that's what The Local on NCL is for.😂
Just got off a Carnival cruise (Dream) and discovered the ship was 30% understaffed. My room steward, who started his contract on our cruise, had THIRTY-THREE rooms - including suites -- to clean by himself. I guess the days of Carnival having a steward with two assistants is over. Needless to say, we doubled his tip.
Sailed Princess for the first time. Loved table cloths in MDR. Loved room cleaning 2x a day. Loved service and food.
Have only cruised with Princess, 23 cruises and two booked for this year.
There are many reasons I don't cruise carnival and it's definitely not the time of the breakfast buffet 😂
Costco members have been buying more eggs because of the nation-wide bird flu epidemic. The eggs are cheaper at Costco than most grocery stores.
What pisses me off about this cop is that he’s going to get 6 to 8 months of free pay before he gets fired that we the taxpayers have to pay.this other nonsense shut out Ludacris
I'm a unionized public employee, and I am opposed to unions for cops. Police unions have gone way too far, with the tail now wagging the dog.
He was immediately fired. Bail set at $25K. Apparently still sitting in the cell.
@@dvandkqunions are garbage everywhere. Worst job I ever had. Old tenured slugs get taken care of despite doing nothing while the hungry folks with less tenure doing the work get shafted. Not to mention you can never seem to fire the slugs.
I still think it’s so cute their called the “boys in blue” because they couldn’t earn the title “men in blue” 😂
In 2018, after more than 100 days cruising with Carnival, we stopped cruising with Carnival.
With all of Carnival’s cutbacks (service/food/entertainment) and the decision to become the party cruise line (booze; drugs; & MMA), Carnival no longer offers the cruise experience we like.
I'm glad the punishments are back. They make me chuckle. I just watched a video from three years ago and realized that I haven't heard a punishment in a while. So i'm happy you brought them back!!!
Absolutely disagree. Please don't put a curse on me. It is not cute. Unsubscribing
@HereForIt-nj1wo well then just follow instructions and the curse won't happen! Lol
In trouble with “BIG BACON”! I almost choked on my It’s It!! 😂😂
My whine about the buffet breakfast is that it CLOSES before I even wake up!!! I'm on FREAKING VACATION.. I'm sleeping in!! How about keeping it open until 11, close for an hour and do lunch at noon. Maybe they could transition to lunch while continuing to serve breakfast.
They won't do it because it will cost them more than a nickel. Your comment is just one of many reasons for the public to stop cruising.
Some used to
Amen brother
😂😂😂😂 i use to say the same thing. Im on vacation i dont wanna wake up early. But i do understand there r early risers and i cant b selfish for those workers who are not on vacation. Now i just go with the flow BC IM ON VACATION 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 no complaints from me 😅
You aren't up before 10??? They open at 7am which I think is late...
Split the difference! Open it at 6:30 that way you will get most of the early risers out of the way and then between 7 and 7:30 it won't be so busy anymore because you won't have everyone trying to line up for food at the same time.
Thank you for the elevator carpet reminder Tony! 🎉 it’s almost 4:20 in the p.em. and you are correct! (I checked after you mentioned it)
Opening the buffet on port days would be great to reduce the crowds.
What line doesn't open buffet on port days??
I love your videos! You always have so much energy and always so fun to watch! Puts me in a great mood!!!
Always enjoy the content and your delivery! Forgot about a couple of the things you used to do in videos. It was fun hearing them again!
Carnival is pulling every lever to save every penny possible.
in 2022 they canceled our Jan 2024 cruise and then only offered a $200 per person on line credit for a new booking. However, the new booking for almost identical cruise was 78% more in cost. We never rebooked and will probably not do Norwegian ever as they left a bad taste in our mouth. We may do others if hubby gets well enough to cruise again as he can't now.
When you're both able, give Princess & Virgin Voyages a try. Platinum card holder & stopped cruising with them 2021.
Speaking of bacon. We were recently on a 9 day NCL cruise, and ended up talking to one of the head buffet chefs. He said they ordered 11000lbs of bacon for our cruise. Yes, you read that right... ELEVEN THOUSAND! 😮
He said they usually go through about 1200lbs a day. Crazy.
Porto, Lisbon was my favorite cruise port stop - had a great semi-private tour. Of course we ended in Rome for 2 days and so far nothing else has topped Rome!
Thanks for the dance. Gave me a chuckle.
Continental breakfast is free from room service on carnival so just order that if you want to eat early
I really enjoy your entertaining videos with a song now and again! Being retired and not wanting to be early risers anymore, we just get room service breakfast in our robes!
Hi Tony 😊 thanks for the updates !!
Thank you Tony, appreciate your views on the cruise news. La Lida Loca, a bright spot on TH-cam.
So... I read the City Managers report from Belfast, ME. According to the chamber of commerce the cruise ships didn't generate a lot of income for local businesses and the ships created a nuisance for local use of the harbor. The harbor master believed that docking fees would be easily achieved from other users.
Carnival is a half step above Margaritaville at Sea. Bacon is a luxury.
Ahhh Lisbon mentioned! My partner and I loved Portugal, especially the city of Porto! 😊 You will have a great time
Yes, Porto is great!
Refusing to sail on Carnival just because the Lido buffet doesn't open until 7am? Sounds pretty silly to me. I can understand the desire to want to eat earlier than 7am on certain port days because you think you need to, such as days when you are scheduled to begin disembarking at 8am and you have an excursion scheduled at 8:30 am. But, and this is based solely on my own personal experiences, you still have plenty of time to grab breakfast and make it down to the gangway and get to your excursion meeting location by 8:30am even when the buffet doesn't open until 7am.
My advice to those people refusing to sail on Carnival because the buffet doesn't open until 7am - sleep for an extra hour...or enjoy a stroll around the jogging track...or enjoy a cup of coffee as the ship docks...or do something else you enjoy. Life is too short to be getting your panties on a bunch over a buffet time.
Shout out to Ludacris!
Love that the punishments are back!!
I don’t cruise Carnival for a myriad of reasons and one those is they are continually cutting perks like a budget cruise line but charge the price of one that DOES have bacon everyday and opens the buffet at 6. Too many other cruise lines to choose from to be bothered by their nonsense.
Do NOT fail to eat Pasteis de Nata while you are in Portugal. These tarts are beyond amazing. You will not be disappointed I promise. Wish I was heading there.
Iowa and Missouri has lots of bacon and pork products, there is a continental breakfast at 6 or 6:30 yogurt cereal coffee juice
🎉🎉happy birthday, to the cruise ship, ❤ your site, really enjoy your news
Thank you!
Great show Tony! When & on what cruiseline are you doung Portugal? Did I miss that announcement somewhere?
I can think of about a hundred reasons why I will not cruise Carnival, The operating hours of the breakfast buffet is not one of them.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 me, too!
What does one do when they have an excursion and it leaves at 7
Tony, My wife and I just watched todays post. We both agree that when it comes to your smooth dance moves….please please please….don’t give up your day job! Love your posts daily…thanks….
Hmmm. I did get paid to do that dance, so… 😎
Just sailed on the Nautica. Great small ship. we had 643 passengers on our cruise. I'd love to book another cruise on that ship or one of their other small ships. Oceania isn't cheap but found it good value for the money. Happy birthday, Nautica!
Allure was doing the Groove cruise. It is a chartered cruise. I am doing the Rock Legends cruise on February 13th. It is a chartered charity fund raiser for the Native American Heritage association. I can hardly wait
great advice on video. thanks
Tony, you had me laughing thru this one! Please lay off the skittles! Lmao.
Glad they got the officer during embarkation. Carnival has bacon everyday in the mdr just not on the buffet.
Really, he was, talking buffet
I love the Ludacris shoutouts
I do too!!!
Luv it Tony ( only Dopes Do Dope ). 😻something my late Dad would always tell me. Always awesome 😎 videos Sir.
Several cruise lines do start their buffets at different times based on docking times. Some also, has a few breakfast items for early birds.
I'm an early riser (not by choice! Work trained me to wake up at 5:30) so there will be times when I'll wish it opened at 6, but especially on vacation, I expect my daily routine to take a major hit. It's part of why I'm on vacation. I can only say that I'm glad I've learned to be more flexible because it would stink if I felt the need to limit myself to the degree some folks seem to.
Split the difference and open at 6:30!
The language I'm studying is Auslan: Australian Sign Language. It's the equivalent of ASL, BSL and others. I'm told that speakers of the sign languages can muddle through conversations with people knowing different signs.
"Blowing in the Wind", 70s era, maybe 60s. One of the truly famous artists of that time, maybe Bob Dylan.
Now there is an egg shortage... we will be stuck with dry toast if this continues... oh wait. You need eggs to make bread... No more breakfast oh my!
What? Eggs aren’t necessary to make bread. Some cakes maybe.
@@Reed-2big Sorry, Mabe I should have stated my favorite, French Toast. Breads that typically contain eggs include challah, brioche, panettone, some sweet breads.
@ Agreed with the sweet breads. French toast is often made with a variety of breads but it needs an egg batter! And I think my challah recipe I don’t think has eggs either, but that’s just one recipe!! I have a bunch of basically fruit bar recipes, about half use eggs which means they mold faster.
I would add that too many cake mixes also need eggs, which can be annoying late at night. For baking there are a few substitutes that can work but I wouldn’t be even willing to try those or even powdered eggs on French toast.
Before this started happening I did notice that many MDR omelets were finally making 2 egg omelets! A good move, I thought!
Fair enough tho
Loved the dance. Great to see you enjoying yourself! ☺️ It’s always so much fun to watch your videos. Not only informative but warm, funny and a lovely daily thing to do while I have my brekky. 😊 Then I go and do my power walking in the heated indoor pool downstairs. That’s my mental health routine. So yes Tony. You’re part of my mental health routine so please keep doing your thang. 😂
Bacon is available every morning in the sit-down restaurant on Carnival. And that's where we always eat, lol.
❤ you Tony!! So entertaining!
We love Holland America. Bacon at 6am with the best nade to order omelets ❤️
Eggs are actually in short supply. We were limited how many we could purchase.
I'll be doing the Canada/New England cruise in June with Holland. Thought about Princess, but didn't include Quebec which is one of the ports we are looking forward to. Sailed on the Enchanted last July to the Caribbean. First time on Princess and we enjoyed very much. We have booked Princess this December to the ABC islands.
I find it annoying that they keep changing the hours of their buffet. I don't think that's it's just the breakfast, it's more all the changes and now I can be quite hungry cause they close the buffet in the afternoon and then open for dinner close at 9:00 and even though it says 9:30 they are putting all the stuff away before it's actually closed. I do find it annoying. The breakfast thing is just one more, where people were used to be able to eat then now go and they are not able to.
My favorite thing at breakfast is coffee. If a cruise line is not going to have coffee at breakfast then I will stop going to that Cruise line.
You'd think of all lines, Disney would open their buffet at 6. Nope. It opens at 7.
Eggs are 6 bucks a dozen at the normal grocery store
Wowza.
Eggs are in shortage due to bird flu and supposed to have a price increase due to this shortage.
Nothing new. Been this problem for years .
Wow that 7am buffet time is a deal breaker if your shore excursions are early ones, I wanna say I have had two that we left the ship at 8 am
I'm glad RC's is open early and has mounds of bacon 🥓
😂😅😊
Looking good Tony! Happy New Year! I’m going on Carnival in 38 days bacon or no bacon lol 😆
Heck... if I am not on a shore tour, I am sleeping in. And wishing breakfast was later so I can make it!! Lol
I love these episodes that you do Tony. Thanks for entertaining us.
Really enjoyed getting also the “inside scoop” on your jazz hands, Ludicrous and see ya on the lido!!!!
punishment back !!!!! thanks TONY!!!!!!!! yeah from DE.
My last cruise already ran out of my favorite food, does that preemptively count as punishment? 😂
Do not ever change ❤❤❤
Last Carnival cruise we took there were no table cloths in the MDR. How cheap can you go?
Maybe I will stop sailing Celebrity because I cant get my breakfast at 5 am, after all I am usually up and out of the room by 4 30 am.🤣
😂😂😂😂 OMG I love watching you Tony! You are so entertaining funny and informative thank you!!!❤❤❤❤
Portugal is one of my favorite places to visit.....the people and food are amazing
I did always wonder why you said that. Thanks.
We were on tge Celebration 3 weeks ago and the street eats was supposed to be open a 12 noon on the app but opened a 2pm one day. The only had 3 strategically placed ice cream cone machines mostly at the Aft, long walk from our spa cabin. Movies sucked. We actually parked by a princess ship that was playing the princess Bride with sub titles we watched from our balcony. Lol
This was my first post covid cruise, I'm still a gold member, and boy tge food has gone down hill in quality and variety. I'm going back tobtge Magic in July, has a bigger spa, better food, better layout etc in my opinion.
Hey, what's your preference?
I am so happy the punishment is back 😂😂😂 That was one of my favorite laughs of the day!!! Thanks Tony!
Ola Tony! Portugal is such a beautiful country. Voce is the ‘proper’ or the respectful way of saving you. Tu also means you 😊. Porto and Aveiro is beautiful. Sintra has the castles. Cascais is the L.A of Lisboa. Algarve in the south has beautiful beaches. Have fun! 🇵🇹
👐🏾 Great job as always.
They need a Bacon Bar that opens at 6:00
Noooo...Bacon Bar should be 24/7
I like you were in a really good mood today
Great video
We like to go early too especially on port days when you have an excursion
Love Your News Updates
I don't think there's a bacon shortage, maybe just a shortage of suppliers willing to sell at Carnival's contracted price when they can get more money elsewhere.
On the last day is open around 530 am on carnival
Carnival’s bacon suppler probably got hit with bird flu . There is a shortage of eggs because of bird flu. That is why there is a mad rush to buy eggs.
If my memory serves, the jazz hands came from one of your early videos when you were docked in Roatan. I'll see if I can find it.
Yes. The original one was on a Roatan video on our first princess cruise. :)
Wow. My home town of Belfast, Maine mentioned in Cruise News!
As always…. ❤ your content.
Just clicked your link to Babbel and there’s NO Greek listed. Is there any way to find more languages from Babbel?
Just a minor thing. Wasn't it AARP that had the Carnival Gift cards, not AAA?
Yes! So right!
I only eat breakfast on the last day of the cruise unless I have a really early excursion and may not be back for lunch. I don't much care when they open/close breakfast.
Peter Paul and Mary sang that song
But Bob Dylan wrote it and sang it way before PP&M did.
I cruised in December and i noticed the bacon missing on the buffet. I thought it was weird but said oh well i didnt need it n e way. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I don't really care when they open the buffet unless we have an early excursion. I get up at my leisure. My husband, who's an early riser, goes down as soon as it opens and brings a croissant and lox back to the room for me.😊😊
So funny! You just happened to sing the first song that I learned to play on the guitar 😊. Was Luda around in the 60's? I know Bob Dylan was 😅❤
MSC and two local hotels I went to had mounds of bacon in buffet.
Yeah I hate when Carnival rations out the bacon in the morning . They give you one piece and mean mug you like keep it moving. They do the same thing with the dinner roasts too. 😂😂
I sure do wonder what the group cruise in October would be like.
We loved their group cruises in October the whole group was always having a great time and Tony and Jenny are the best hosts