First Timer Cruiser - Any Advice / Tips??

[arkvilla]

We've also just booked our first cruise Lisa (but it's not a Disney cruise it's a Carnival ship) we are just doing a 4 day Bahmas cruise to see what we think.

We fly 21st Aug to MCo then have 1 night at a friends villa (ours is booked) and we arrive back in Orlando on 26th. The best thing is all 3 boys are coming with us

Sandra

[Esmeralda]

Yep I did use the internet on board a few years ago, using the small area next to the Promenade Lounge on Deck 3 on the Magic.
Not only is it slow and expensive but the lighting in that area is very poor and unless you are a good touch typist yew eand uup tieping lowds of wrung woords.

That's exactly how I type when I've got me long nails on.... care to tell us anything Terry?............... Still what you do on a cruise is your business... just sayin'

[*Bambi-Belle*]

With the sit down restaurants that are on rotation, do you have o eat there, are they our only alternative? Hubby is such a fussy eater, we've looked at some of the menus and he is really worried about the choices.

We've booked a 12-12.30 boarding time

Don't worry about the main rotation restaurants, my youngest son who is 14 is a plain and somewhat fussy eater much to my anoyance, but our server team were brilliant, they couldn't do enough for him, they brought him steak every single night, he had plain chicken one night actually. They also served it with plain pasta, rice and potatoes, no fancy sauces or green stuff. He doesn't do puddings either but they brought him two scoops of vanilla ice cream every night. Also on the night my husband and I dined at Remy, they brought him two steaks, a New York strip for his main course and because his Mum and Dad were posh dining, they brought both him and his brother a fillet steak after lol my two carnivores loved their special treatment.

There are plain options at the bottom of all the adult menus, fish, chicken and steak I think, but my husband, older son or I haven't tried them.

Have a wonderful cruise Lisa, we are hoping to do the med on the Magic this year, it all depends if my husband can take the time off, busy year.

It may have gotten better. I don't know. I haven't tried it. I think Terry has used it before though.
Maybe he's got some teknikal insight that he'd share.

Tom (... 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing.)

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we received the fifty mins package on our October 2012 cruise and it was terrible, it took so long to log on and then pretty much froze every time. By the end of our trip we had used up our quota and hadn't even managed to read our emails, once you're on the minutes tick down even if it has frozen, also you must fully log out or your time keeps running out, It was very frustrating, I certainly wouldn't pay for it.

[Lisa1976]

Thanks Bambi-Belle, that's great