Pre-Cruise: The Carnival Website
Carnival has one of the best websites for enthusiasts to plan their future cruise. Once you log into the Carnival website, you will have the ability to complete your cruise documentation and check-in, print out your Boarding Pass and Luggage Tags and pre-book just about anything available on your cruise.
As you can see in the image above, the Cruise Manager section will alllow you to pre-purchase/pre-book all sorts of onboard activities and packages. We always pre-order 2 12-Packs of bottled water. At $4.95 it is a great value and a great convenience. The water is waiting for us when we arrive in the stateroom. You can also pre-order a 1.5 litre bottle for $3.95, which is also a good value and comparable with what you might pay for water in port.
Carnival offers two drink packages: Bottomless Bubbles is an unlimited soft drink package while Cheers! is an adult-beverage package. Bottomless Bubbles is restricted to soft drinks and juice, and only those served by-the-glass (not cans or bottles). With Cheers!, you can enjoy all the beer, wine and spirits with a drink price under $20ea. during your cruise for one price. Cheers! participants can also enjoy canned or bottled beers and soft drinks. The Carnival website makes no mention of additional gratuities. There are other restrictions that apply, check the Carnival website for details.
The Cruise Planner section of the website lets you easily see what you have planned for each day of the cruise. As you can see in the image below, we have a specialty dining reserved for this day at sea.
Pre-booking your shore excursions is easy too.
Overall, the Carnival website has the nicest and easiest to use interface of any cruise line website we have seen to date.
