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Frequently
Asked Questions
1. Payments: Carnival
Cruises will require a deposit of $250.00 at the time of reservations
in order to have a cabin assignment. You may place a deposit of $100.00
but will be required to pay an addition $150.00 by May 6. Final payment
will be due July18 which will be automatically charged to your
credit card on file unless you notify me to use a different form of
payment. Any and all check payments should be made payable to Cruise
Designs
2. Documents: Each
person must have a valid U.S. passport, a passport
card or an enhanced driver’s license. Canadian guest must have a
passport.
3. Cabin
Assignments: At the time of your $250 deposit the best
located cabin available will be assigned to you. If you place a $100
deposit you will be confirmed but without a cabin assignment. A cabin
may be assigned once the deposit on file is $250.00. However, Carnival
may stop assigning specific cabin numbers but continues to sell the
cabin category. What this means is you have what is called a
“guarantee”. You are guaranteed to get the cabin category that you have
selected but you may not know your cabin number until a few weeks or so
before we sail. Often (but not always) clients who book a guarantee,
will be upgraded at no extra cost.
4.
Cashless
Society: When checking at the pier you will need to
leave a credit card imprint. Anything you purchase on the ship will be
charged to your cabin account. Cash is not accepted anywhere except the
casino. Should you not have a credit card, you will need to leave cash
deposit from which you may draw.
5. Ship Board
Activities: The first night of every cruise we host a
welcome cocktail party exclusively for our guests. This is the first
time the entire group will have a chance to meet and mingle. We will
make many useful announcements. Other private events are also planned
for the week. Full details of our daily itinerary will be made
available to you upon check in on the ship.
6. Dining:
We have confirmed a block of tables together at 8:15PM each evening. Since the tables
are ours, you may feel free to move from table to table each evening.
We encourage this so that you get the chance to get to know as many
people as possible. Dining most evenings is casual meaning slacks and
shirt or polo type shirt however there are two formal nights where men
should wear at least a jacket and tie. Women always seem to know how to
dress appropriately. All meals in the buffet are always casual.
7.
Roommates:
We offer those who are traveling alone the opportunity to be paired up
with other solo travelers. We match people up based upon cabin type
booked, age range, smoking preferences, etc. We guarantee to find you a
roommate and do the best to find compatible roommates. You will be
given the opportunity to find a roommate on your own or through our private
Yahoo group up until July 10. After that I must assign roommates.
8. Shore
Excursions:
The ship will offer many excursions to purchase. We however, will offer
at least a couple of our own including a chartered catamaran for
swimming, snorkeling and fun. Our trips are usually lower priced and
include more than what the ship will offer. Information regarding our
excursions will be sent to you about 60 days prior to sailing.
9. Gratuities: A
daily charge of $10.00 per person will be added to your cabin account
to serve as tips to porters, waiters, cabins stewards, and pool boys.
10.
Getting to the
Ship: You fly into Ft Lauderdale airport and take
a taxi to Port Everglades which is about a $15.00 ride as the
airport and the port are 10 minutes away from each other. If you need
to fly into Miami
or West Palm Beach,
Carnival will sell you transfers for about $12.00 - 20.00 per person
each way.
11. Pre-cruise
hotel: TBA
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