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I have and prob will again.

4 wheel spinner all the way. My wife can't pick up one and a two wheel is difficult for her to handle. She can push a spinner with no problem.

Maybe Carnival should have read this before changing a ship's name ..., LOL. http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/rename.htm

Just about the same as Carnivals policy.

I would also suggest that one researches the three incidents... they are totally separate and totally unrelated. True they are all on a Carnival ship. Fuel return line on the Triumph, Back up Generator on the Dream, and an Azipod problem on the Legend.

Sarge , 8 of my 11 cruises have been with Carnival and am seriously considering two more and one is on the Triumph. There was little said about the Voyager laid up for two days earlier this year with engine problems...

May in best interest to get some facts straight first. This was posted on Carnival's Facebook page, I actually thought it did a good job of addressing many concerns: Carnival Cruise Lines about an hour ago. Q: What is going on with Carnival Dream? What happened? While at dock in St. Maarten yesterday, the ship’s engineering team conducted a regularly scheduled test of the ship’s emergency diesel generator. A malfunction occurred which has rendered the emergency generator inoperable. At no time did the ship lose power and the ship’s propulsion systems and primary power sources were not impacted. However, for a period of time last night, there were interruptions to the elevators and restroom services. Toilets and elevators are currently working, and have been since about 12:30am. Q: Where was the ship when the problem occurred? The Carnival Dream was at dock in St. Maarten during a regularly scheduled port of call visit and remains there currently. All passengers are safe and comfortable. Q: Did the ship lose power? At no time did the ship lose power and the ship’s propulsion systems and primary power sources were not impacted. Q: Why is the ship not able to sail back to Port Canaveral? While the ship’s propulsion systems and primary power source were not impacted, in an abundance of caution, we prefer not to sail with guests on board without an operational back up emergency generator. Q: Are the toilets and elevators working? Toilets and elevators are currently working, and have been since about 12:30am. Q: Is it true that toilets were overflowing and sewage on floors, in hallways, etc.? We have had multiple conversations with the ship’s management team. Based on the ship’s service logs and extensive physical monitoring of all public areas, including restrooms, throughout the night, we can confirm that only one public restroom was taken offline for cleaning based on toilet overflow and there was a total of one request for cleaning of a guest cabin bathroom. Aside from that there have been no reports of issues on board with overflowing toilets or sewage. The toilet system had periodic interruptions yesterday evening and was fully restored at approximately 12.30am this morning. Q: Are guests allowed to get off the ship? Guests have the option to get off the ship to visit the port of St. Maarten until their scheduled return home. We have also arranged complimentary water taxi service for guests who wish to explore other areas of the island. Q: What is going to happen with the guests from here? All guests are being flown via a combination of commercial and private chartered air to either Orlando, which is the closest air gateway to Port Canaveral, or to their final destination depending on their individual needs. Q: Is it true that Carnival is flying everyone to Miami and putting them on buses? No. Q: What kind of compensation will they receive? Guests on the current voyage will receive a refund equivalent to three days of the voyage and 50 percent off a future cruise. Q: Are you cancelling future cruises? We have cancelled the ship’s next voyage which is scheduled to depart on Saturday, March, 16. Guests scheduled to sail on this cruise will receive a full refund and 25 percent off a future seven-day cruise. Guests who re-book will have their current rate protected on the future sailing. Additionally, any non-refundable transportation related expenses will be reimbursed. Q: How many passengers and crew are onboard? There are 4,363 guests and 1370 crew on Carnival Dream. Q: What are you doing to help passengers without passports? We have already addressed this issue with the relevant authorities and the guests will not have an issue traveling without passports. __________________

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I feel Carnival has gone above and beyond in their compensation package. If one reads the fine print closely, they are not obligated to anything.

Wonder how old this pic is.

Paxs may shop with the locals more if they weren't so "in your face". Nothing I hate worse than a pushy vendor.

Well we have booked another Western Caribbean cruise. I guess we like the WC cruises as this is our 7th, 8th, 9th who's counting. Come join us. Jim

I just realized that indeed I didn't say much about the ship... The Magic is a nice ship, fairly easy to get around on. It has some nice qualities but basically it is a Conquest class ship on steroids. We don't gamble so nothing about the casinos. The theater is not unlike any other except there are high back seats in the nose bleed section, standard seating (modified bench)on the lower section. We had anytime dining in the Northern lights dining room (forward)..a nice quality here is there is a walk way (forward to aft) outside the dining room on the starboard side. Anytime is done on the upper deck of the dinning room. We had an interior room...same as any other on Carnival..Don't they all look alike? The buffet seemed to me to be very crowded most of the time, it's like there are too many people for the space allotted...The burrito bar was good...food in the buffet not unlike any other Carnival ship, no better, no worse . (We ate in the MDR 90% of the time) Pools were not used too much that I could see due to the temps (on the cool side), Same goes for the Super Slide and Power Drencher...Hot tubs were in demand, the serinity deck was really nice. The piano bar and Punchliner Comedy club is the same place as on the Conquest...The Red frog Pub was really nice and has an outside seating area (again a little cool) and the OceanPlaza Club was very well laid out going from port to starboard. Didn't use the spa so nothing to report there...Most of the shops were on deck 5 as was the Conquest. Kevin I hope this answers some questions you may have had. Later Jim

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Thanks for the review ... We'll be on the Magic Dec 11 ... first time for an inside cabin, we'll see what's that's like.

Usually between 400 and 500 per cruise. After we get home and have them printed, we set up a photo album by each day of the cruise.

Out of 9 cruises I can truly say only 2 Matre D's earned the recognition of a tip. The rest were non-existent.

The answer would be "SO?"

It appears this will be for the winter season...2012-2013 Princess Dec to thru April (Crown Princess 3070 pass.) Royal Dec thru April (Marinier 3114 pass) Carnival (2 ships) year round. (Triumph 2758 pass, Magic 3646 pass)

Princess is returning to Galveston after departing in 2007 http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/post/2011/03/princess-cruises-galveston-texas-cruise-caribbean-crown-/145935/1?csp=tf

http://belizean.com/...elize/#more-484 From John Heald's FB page. John Healdagain with Belize, sailings in the next couple of weeks may be affected as well. I can promise you that we want to keep calling to Belize and we are working hard to come up with a solution that is both safe and acceptable. As soon as I know if any other sailings are affected I will let you all know. John HealdOk, here is the latest on Belize part one. This week the tender operators were only able to provide enough tenders that met our standards for one ship. With a one ship limit we decided that the Carnival Valor would continue its planned call to Belize as we did not have a replacement port of call John Healdpart 2 - so we canceled Carnival Legend and Carnival Triumph's call and will replace Belize with Costa Maya on Carnival Legend and Carnival Triumph will call at Grand Cayman. As mentioned the tender operators are in a real dissaray and we cannot be held to ransom by them. Thats the news for today, lets see what happens next