On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 10:57:21 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 12:56:05 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:24:33 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:15:39 -0400, wrote:


You just have to plan your day and where you are staying. I agree you
don't start looking for a room at 1600.
My wife likes to complain about "lost" reservations but they were all
at Carnival resorts and they are just standby rooms, even if they
don't tell you.
The ship sells more excursions than they plan on, you get bumped.
We were OK with the rooms they sent us to. The one at Denali was just
a huge tourist motel with what you would expect but we went to Lovie
and Willy's B&B in Cooper Landing. We liked it so much we stayed there
again on our way out of Seward. We even got married there ... again
(native American ceremony)

You are reinforcing my negative feelings about Carnival.

I have been on a number of Carnival cruises, most as sales prizes when
my wife was selling HVAC systems (first woman to be on the Trane "top
10" list).

The name sums it up. The ships are crewed by "carny" workers, the
ships are lit up like a carnival and the food is what you would expect
at a carnival.
Spend the extra money and go with Holland America or some other up
scale line. Personally I am done with "cruising" but my wife has her
heart set on a European Viking cruise.
If I am spending that kind of money I think I would rather take a
Bright Horizons cruise.

I'll never set foot on a regular cruise ship again, but I do want to go on a Lindblad "cruise".

http://www.expeditions.com/

I'd be happy just to finish my boat and cruise the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers this year.