Carnival Splendor Embarkation Sanitised Version @julescruisecompanion

Today I'm going to run over my embarkation experience on Carnival Splendor out of Sydney in October of 2022. Now this will be a quite sanitized video and I am going to do another video which is going to be industrially brutally honest. So, if you want to hear the sanitized version this is the video for you. If you want the brutal honest opinion of my embarkation experience in Circular Quay in Sydney, check out another video. Before you embark on a Carnival Cruise you will download the Carnival Hub APP and you'll also download the VeriFly APP. On the VeriFly app you will put all the information that you need in relation to your vaccinations, your passports and all that kind of information. On the Carnival Hub app you're going to have put all your credit card details etc. I think there is some duplication. I found the VeriFly app is very glitchy. Even though I'd gone through, and I had set everything to a green tick. It still would not accept that I had uploaded everything & kept saying that I needed to upload more information. When we got to Circular Quay, we had all our information in a separate folder on our phone, because everything in today's world is contactless, but NO. We got to the cruise terminal & everything had to be in a paper copy. Because we do not have a paper copy of our boarding pass, we had to find a gentleman who typed our information in onto a little reader & he gave us a small ticket. That then became our boarding pass. We arrived at the Circular Quay Cruise terminal on a rainy Wednesday & there is not much cover for people in inclement weather. The place was crowded, so we had a 12.30 to 1 o'clock embarkation time. We arrived just after 12 midday & we were basically turned away, so we went to a bar just nearby we had a drink for half an hour. Then we came back where signage for the queues to get into the cruise terminal had moved to one o'clock to two o'clock & completely skipped the 12 30. We indicated that we were there for 12.30 queue don't understand that process at all. We stood in a queue for a little while about seven or eight deep before being allowed down into a lower hall of the embarkation space. Once we spent about an hour in the lower hall being going up & down all of the rows in the corralled between the stanchions, we were allowed to go to the escalators up into the departure hall. The attendants were doing the full check-in process. We entered the ropes & stanchions within that space & spent another 45 minutes while we were waited for our turn to go to the delegate. It was a busy space with no social distancing. There were 2 attendance per booth and each party had more than one person. They took our photos and went through Point by Point everything that had been on the VeriFly app or the carnival Hub app. During this duplication processes and after a period we got a stamp on our little piece of paper, which acted as our embarkation pass. The next interesting part to our whole process was very disappointing. We are quite used to traveling and we do carry alcohol. Most Cruise companies allow you to take one bottle of wine per person. Within the Carnival information I didn't necessarily see it glaring that we could not do that. Right back at the beginning of check-in, we were asked when we dropped off our baggage, did we have any alcohol? Yes, we did. They asked us to put it into the carry-on rather than the check luggage. When we moved through the whole of the process and got to the security, they took the alcohol off us. They confiscated our wine & gave us a document that we could claim the alcohol back at the end of the cruise. We walked on to the boat and was greeted with an interesting space, the atrium on Carnival Splendor. We went & searched for our room. At our room door was our key card (sail & sign pass). Every door had an envelope next to it in the little mail slot. Interesting security, having it sitting at your door, so what happens if somebody else had come along and taken your key? Our room was wonderful and I'll do a video about the room and then I of course I will upload some videos on the deck plans and a wayfinding etc but that's basically the sanitized version of embarkation day. Stay safe everybody and Happy Travels Edited by VideoGuru:https://videoguru.page.link/Best