Shore Excursions

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Resi

Guest
We're cruising on the Carnival Triumph 12FEB05. Can we pre-purchase shore excursions,
or is that for when you're on the ship??

Thanks
 
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Natalia

Guest
I have not sailed on Carnival yet, but with other lines you can go to their website and make excursion reservations. Used to be that you paid for them on the ship when you settled your account, not so these days I recently found out. I have a cruise coming up in Dec with RCI... their website allows me to make the reservations but I have to pay for them at that time too. Excursions may or may not be available yet for your sailing. Go to the Carnival website and have a look around. Hope you have a great cruise!
 
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herb

Guest
My understanding is that you cannot pre-purchase shore excursions with Carnival. Once you get on the ship you can purchase........ first come first served.
 
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hkolln

Guest
Carnival doesn't allow you to prepurchase shore excursions like Royal Caribbean does. I've sailed on Carnival 3 times already and my next cruise is on the RCL Voyager of the Seas. I like the fact I can order my shore excursions online prior to boarding with RCL.

When you get on the ship with Carnival you can go to the 'shore excursion desk' and pick up a shore excursion listing and pick your excursions and drop them in the box they have there. First come first served so your best bet if you want to do a Carnival shore excursion is to reserve it early. We do independent tours instead now (our 1st Cruise we did cruiseship excursions) since we know what we want to do and have been cruising awhile.
 
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Resi

Guest
thanks for all the info. Here's another question.
The Triumph stops in Puerto Rico in the evening. Is the Bacardi Distillery open
for tours at night??

Thanks
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hkolln

Guest
You can email Carnival and ask them to email you a shore excursion listing for the ports you are going to be sailing into. We were on the Triumph in Feb 2003 and we docked is San Juan, St Thomas, and St Maarten. We did the old san juan/new san juan tour thru Carnival. Not sure about the distillery tour though at night.

I have my Triumph pics online at http://kollnfamily.com/cruise.htm
 
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