FANTASY AGAIN

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Sara Lee

Guest
Ok everyone , its nice to be here
a weather report and the rules are real clear
I like it on this board it is so much nicer
and I dont feel like Im the cheese in the slicer

But I have done it now Im going to CRUISE
Now I keep thinking is this good or bad news

I looked and I looked and I thought and I thought
about the first cruise and the tickets we bought
and how the ship left so late from the Port
and I wasnt really a very good sport

I let all of life totally get in my way
I had a terribly bad awful hair day

So now I have gotten a reply from the board
and they gave me a special incentive reward
a 15% dicount and a present to boot
and 100.00 dollars of shipboard loot

So I called my TA and said what the heck
here book me for MAY , here is the check

So in just 3 weeks , we will be heading to sea
no its not as I wished , its not totally free
but I just had to go , to try once more
to see the beautiful bahama shore

So I asked my husband can we just please go
and for some unknown reason he couldnt say NO

So I hope this time I will enjoy the boat
if it sits in the harbor only to float

The only sad thing , the saddest of all
is my dog Mo cant come he would have a ball

I cant believe that we would go so soon
I wonder what the surprize is , is it a balloon ?
They say that they care and thier sorry for trouble
so how could I break the carnival bubble

They at first were rude until my letter I wrote
about how we did not enjoy thier carnival boat
Now finally maybe I can see all the fish
in the aquarium going splash splish

I will honestly write a review of this ship
and of how the people at carnival are on this trip

I wish to thank all of you here on this board
so being so nice you deserve a reward
so Ill try to bring back some carnival cake
and all of the goodies I can possibly take

to share them here with all of you
you are a wonderful wonderful crew
 
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Sara Lee

Guest
Just have one question .. Our Ta gave us a choice of main deck M30 with portholes or on the Veranda deck on an inside cabin.. My husband said go with the M30 but I am looking at the decking plans and that Veranda leads right out to the deck where you can watch everything from the front of the boat but I can see it is right under the gym .. Has anyone stayed there.. Im sure if I get back to him quick enough he can change it .. What do you think
anyone anyone anyone ????
 
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YoRay

Guest
Yo!
<img src=http://www.saraleebakery.com.au/images/logo.gif> !

Good poem. Hope this cruise works out better for you.

Say Yo! to Mo!

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joebat1

Guest
Sara... I sincerely hope this cruise is much better than the last one.... M30 is a good choice, at least you can see the water and moon !!

Thanks for the lovely poem.
 
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Sara Lee

Guest
Is Skippy a kangaroo

or a dingo ?

Mr Mo is a Boston Terrier ? He would love a friend
 
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lizardstew

Guest
Sara Lee ~

I hope you have a wonderful time on the Fantasy! Since I'm kind of a newbie.....what happened on your first cruise?? Regardless, I'm soooo glad you're giving it another chance!
 
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dgregg

Guest
Sara Lee,

I sure hope you have a better time on the Fantasy....

My first cruise was on the Fantasy and when we returned I was not very happy. I realized today that I had been wanting to go on a cruise for about 10 years and it had never worked out. When I finally booked the cruise I was expecting grand-de-ous (my own word), if you know what I mean. I was disappointed. I did have a blast with my friends.

We then traveled on the Pride4 months after and found grand-de-ous! Now that I know the differences between a 3/4 day ship and a 7 day ship, I hope to sail on the Fantasy again because she was a good ship.

I believe my new attitude towards the Fantasy will make my trip fantastic as it will yours. Good luck!
 
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Dan40

Guest
M30 will be a larger room, by far, than the inside Verandah deck room. we once had a porthole cabin and the wife loved sitting in the recess of the porthole and it was large. BUUUTTT there are some things that we laughed about and I don't know how you'll take them. Pulling into port they use the side thrusters, these are located just about under your bunk and , of course, they always arrive in port about 6AM. Its like getting a vibrating massage without getting out of bed. Also if your cruise stops at a private island the noise made by the anchor chain is not to be believed. The anchor is located about 50 ft above your porthole but a little forward.
I would go for the M30 even tho that Verandah deck area above the bridge on the Fantasy class ships is my favorite place on the whole ship at night.
With your history, I don't know.
Dan
 
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Sara Lee

Guest
Hey

We just got back from Atlanta from the college graduation of our daughers fiance .. long day , long drive ... we are going on the Fantasy the 22 of may . The 15 th looked good but almost to soon after driving back and forth .. as we do it once a week anyway .. for work .. its a round trip from here of 500 miles ...

Thanks for all the input and Im sure the knowledge of attitude and just letting go of waiting and antipating the last time and yes the Fantasy was older ..

It was our second cruise and the first was on the Star Princess which was brand new and a lot bigger ,

I just had so many things in my life happen before the first Fantasy cruise it was just

well I cant explain it all but as I said , I know I will enjoy this cruise and as my husband said , he didnt think lightning would strike twice in the same place

And I told him .. Well if it does , we are just going to watch the show ..

oh for what happened for some who dont know .. WE had just really needed to get away and we wanted to go on a short cruise and we wanted to see nassau and the aquarium , gamble a little and the Fantasy broke down and we watched the SOS pull out and the Disney Wonder pull out and we waited and waited and we saw port authorities on the

shore and there were sheriffs etc all around the boat and we really all didnt know what was going on .. They really didnt tell us what was wrong until later that night about 9 or so that the engine was broken and they were waiting for a part ..

So nothing was open on board... and we didnt really even know if we would get going by that night even

. A lot of people on board were concerned when they just kept telling us it was a technical difficulty because of sars and terror etc and the war was in full swing ...

and then we finally did leave about 11pm or so and we arrived late in nassau to late for shore excursions so they went the next day on a three day cruise to freeport instead and they did not have enough shore excursions there, only a few people got to go on them ..

So it really did throw off the whole scedule of the boat and made it hard to do anything timely and even the day at sea was changed etc..


The main problem we had was at first was that the Carnival DUDE CRUISE DIRECTOR PAUL wrote everyone a letter and put it under our door when we were ALL asleep telling us of this new plan and they reserved the right to change iternarys etc for any reason ..

A lot of people were dissapointed because Carnival simply could have said . Hey everyone , we know this took away your first night and we arent going to get to go to where a lot of you wanted to go , so heres a shipboard credit etc of 50 bucks apiece and then I think everyone would have spent it on board anyway .. and the ship would have made money anyway ..

Customer service was really just overloaded with complaints and the pursers lost a lot of patience and that was the main problem ..

AS I said some persistance paid off and carnival finally did offer a 100 ship board credit , 15% off our next cruise and a gift in the room ..

But this time Im going to just let my troubles find thier way into the abyss

and relax...

a lot of other things happened before this trip also that were hard in life so it kind of just as you know at times was that life gives you lemons and you cant find a blender ..

or any sugar for the lemonade

but life always has a way of at least giving you some sweet and low and a spoon .

Im happy for the spoon and the sweet and low at this point .. and thankful ..
for blessings not counted daily . as they should be
 
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