Posted on 10/17/2014 1:06:30 PM PDT by rstrahan
Update on the Texas nurse on the Carnival Magic cruise per Carnival social media updates.
First, the nurse is showing no signs of Ebola. Good News. Second, though, Mexico refused the ship docking privileges in Cozumel, so the ship is returning to its home port of Galveston. Carnival is giving on-board credit to the passengers and a discount on a future cruise for their inconvenience, even though it is not Carnival's fault. So Carnival is doing its best to make things good for the passengers.
That is correct—I was trying to show all of the things going on, not just relating the cruise related items.
No more Cruising for me! I will not set foot on a Death Ship!
Maybe the Mexican government will build a border fence to keep them here.
So you are stating this as a fact or an opinion?
Hubby and I MAY go on a cruise next year, thanks to the MyVegas points we’ve accumulated this year. However, it would be on Royal Caribbean leaving from Galveston. I’ve heard really good things about them, so thanks for confirming it.
Thanks for the ping!
RC and Celebrity are nicer lines (Celebrity's food is one notch better than RC) and Carnival is way below all the rest. They're the budget cruise line. You can get last minute cruises on their line for a couple hundred bucks.
Disney, I hear, is at the same level as Celebrity.
Been on two lines. Carnival is cheapest price wise, but Carnival’s entertainer/comedians are filthy.
Norwegian has cleaner comedy but the Norwegian ‘freestyle cruisin’ sucks. We waited an hour, no place to sit, or bar, for a dinner table more than once. The assigned/set dinner seating like on Carnival is much better.
All cruise lines are shifting more and more of the expenses to ‘Govt taxes and other fees’ category. You may get a cruise for base price of $150 but the ‘tax and fees’ are over $100 on top of that and the gratuity is another $75.
So real cost is more than double the advertised price.
Note: Govt taxes and other fees are not-mandated costs. There are costs of the cruise line doing business added in there that used to be part of the base price. Like baggage handling, the cost of the third-party staff in the port, etc. And don’t ever try to get an itemization of these bogus fees.
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