Carnival Share Discussion Threads

[stansmith3] 18/8/2022 19:05

i have a friend who will only go with fred olsen, loves the door to door service for some reason....more seriously, the risks i see here are the company doing further raises and of course 23/24 could be difficult... any thoughts?

[pierre oreilly] 18/8/2022 11:12

Too right Stan. A 1000 pax boat has high fixed cost per passenger (that's why they are now in the premium lines), the fixed cost per passenger of another 5000pax is probably a bit over fa. That includes the half bill cost of the boat - it fades into near insignificance when you pack them in. Again, not to everyone's taste, but great for shareholders.

I'm trying to get a decent deal on Fred Olsen to check out the competition. Ready to book up until i found the departure time from Tilbury was 11pm! So not a short 5 day cruise (being 4 days really usually), but actually a 3 day cruise with day 1 down the pan. They sail the north sea canal, and the rivers/canals between Amsterdam and Antwerp which we'd like to try. (and which big boats can't do of course).

[blackhorse23] 17/8/2022 22:18

Mcap too high in here .... switched to CURY (LSE) mcap 700m , revenue 10.1 billion , dividend yield 7% & growth forecast 63%

[stansmith3] 17/8/2022 11:23

sardinrwell we can thank as pierre calls them - blocks of flats - for that lol....buster - thats interesting im booked for arvia next year which i guess will be very similar to iona, anyone else been on the rcl mega ships? too busy?...

[sardine2] 17/8/2022 11:06

Just an some observation:

The price for a 14/15 night P&O cruise in the Caribbean including flights from UK (usually Barbados)are just over £1500 today. This is not much different to what I paid in the very late nineties.

[busterdog2] 17/8/2022 10:49

Been on the Oceana, Azura. Ventura, Brittania. And now the Iona, which was fabulous imo, the best by far.

[stansmith3] 17/8/2022 10:33

shame they never caught that woman who jumped in a few years ago, had a friend on that boat, the delays in retrieving her meant everyone had missed their flights home by the time the boat finally reached destination

[pierre oreilly] 17/8/2022 10:28

The seagulls would get it well before it got to the sea.

[tradejunkie2] 17/8/2022 10:21

I personally like how l can stick me' bum over the railing and take a poop into the sea.

[stansmith3] 17/8/2022 10:12

pierreid hate to see a ramping post from you lol, brittania i think would be regarded as a big ship, but i found it one of the most pleasant to spend time on, allure of the seas has a great first impression but after a day or two 7500 passengers is just too much, queues everywhere etc etc - still to try iona/arvia - but i think the smaller ships like oceana and oriana have a much better feel, i dont see these getting back to previous highs, but 16-20 seems achievable provided no more raises...

[pierre oreilly] 17/8/2022 10:05

Oopse, ... Meant to say .......I see no reason for this not to get back to highs.

[pierre oreilly] 17/8/2022 10:04

I don't wish to ramp, but really I see no reason for this to get back to six quid highs. More debt sure, but a much more efficient fleet of much bigger boats. That's factual, and in a way it's a shame that many of the small boats have gone. You have generally go 6 star if you like them and don't like mega ships. I like both. The floating blocks of flats have so many facilities, the small ships are more personal.

[smurfy2001] 17/8/2022 08:01

REG-Carnival PLC: Carnival Booking Activity Nearly Doubles 2019 Comparison
16 August 2022 17:29
CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE SAYS BOOKING ACTIVITY NEARLY DOUBLES 2019 COMPARISON
AFTER COVID PROTOCOLS SIMPLIFIED

[stansmith3] 16/8/2022 17:58

yes spiked in the usa as a result, currently 11.05 ish....

[the white house] 16/8/2022 17:26

Bookings double RNS after close. Bump on open here.

[jan-mar] 15/8/2022 09:58

Normal service resumed on the price

[mroalan] 14/8/2022 15:09

Pierre, thanks for that, i,m not jabbed and was booked for a trip in May so transferred it until May23, which up to now looks ok, but we,d go tomorrow if the rules change.
We were on P&O out of Sydney on 20.2/20 on a world trip. it was a nightmare getting home no illness on board, spent aweek outside the port of Durban awaiting clearance to load food/oil, no disembarkation allowed, then back south around the Cape up to Tenerife to load oil ect at sea, six weeks at sea!

[pierre oreilly] 14/8/2022 12:23

There's mass confusion over this! That page unhelpfully says 'current protocols stay in place till sep 6' owtte ...... so you have to just know the current protocol (which itself only changed about a week or two ago!) was that self declaration is acceptable and therefor no requirement for an observed test.

Of course, things could change again today or tomorrow.

[pierre oreilly] 14/8/2022 12:18

google princess covid boarding requirements uk and choose the princess uk site.

It's generally but not always the case, depends on full vacs, whether you've recently had covid, where it's sailing etc etc, but most from the uk are now self declared negative, and no requirements at all after sep 5th iirc.

[mroalan] 14/8/2022 12:05

Pierre ,your post above "Princess now self-declaring your covid free" have you a link please? i just googled it and theres no show there, the daughter rang today saying the same but no link.

[pierre oreilly] 13/8/2022 12:52

With 3/4/5k passengers, then there are bound to be plenty of oafs (exceeded massively by plenty of very convivial people).

People are selfish pigs sometimes, like hogging 10/15 apricots when they appeared in the buffet. None left for my mrs when she tracked down where they used to be. In general, we noticed a trend of groups of people setting up a mini-buffet for themselves with several people collecting mega plates of stuff and sharing those. When they left of course, probably half the food was left on the table. Seems traditional for certain nationalities, but i wish they wouldn't allow such waste.

On a different cruise, i saw a bloke with a plateful of big crayfish/mini lobster things or similar, so headed for where he had just been to grab some myself. What i found was a very big paella which had just been placed there and fully complete except for the dozen crayfish on top.

[ccnp] 12/8/2022 17:14

Pierre

you describe beautifully why so many of us who liked cruising no longer find it so much fun. The great unwashed are even less convivial traveling companions than before.

[pierre oreilly] 12/8/2022 15:22

Princess now self-declaring your covid free, joining cunard and i think p&o.

Another barrier, cost and hassle removed.

Lots of pent up demand.

Lots sailing at >100% capacity

Some bargains still around.


Where else can you experience such varied luxury for a hundred ackers a day, and be chauffeured to a different exotic place everyday?

There was a good old punch up on our last one. A bus decided to stop at the back of the queue instead of the front, where people had been waiting for an hour to gtee a seat. Those at the back simply piled on until one from the front came over and requested to let those at the front on first - to which someone replied by pushing the old codger over (quite dangerous at his age). Nevertheless, he sprang up, and landed a good punch on the offenders head and claimed his rightful place. Going up the steps, the stupid puncher decided to throw out his backside, causing many including me and my mrs and several others, to be squashed and carried backwards and those on the outside to fall over. Classy eh?

[tradejunkie2] 12/8/2022 15:06

Must close above 800p or my cats will stop purring.

[the codger] 12/8/2022 07:34

Blue today again