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Another Reason I Love Carnival
By Dave | August 10, 2008
Ever since they’ve been giving them out, I’ve been collecting Carnival’s past guest ship pins. They’re just a funnel with the ship’s name on it. If you’re a past guest, you’ll receive a pin for the ship you’re sailing on, along with a little thank you note. Anyway, I’ve been collecting them, and I recently went to add my new Carnival Miracle pin to the collection, only to discover I lost the collection!
Well you can imagine how disappointed I felt at this point. All the pins I saved up, gone. Now I either had two options: attempt to sail on all those ships again, something that would take years and lots of money; or I could ask Carnival to send me replacements. So I contacted them online, and within a couple days I received a response saying that my request would be fulfilled, and as soon as the pins came in they’d ship them to me, at no charge!
Yesterday, they came! I received pins for every Carnival ship I’ve been on, except the Sensation, which doesn’t have pins for some reason (or so I was told). So that made me happy. I certainly wasn’t expecting Carnival to send me all those pins. I’m sure other cruise lines might do something similar if the situation arose, but as of right now I’d have no way of knowing. What I do know though, is that Carnival has once again gone above and beyond what I expected! Yet another reason why I love Carnival. 
August 11th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Check out the following link for an eBay page which lists a package which contains SENSATION and VICTORY past guest pin.
http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-2001-Carnival-Cruise-Lines-SS-Sensation-Lapel-Pin_W0QQitemZ290252126663QQihZ019QQcategoryZ14053QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
August 11th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Ooops! I should have made that into an tiny url:
http://tinyurl.com/5e3edl
Dan
August 11th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Oh wow that’s interesting. Maybe I’ll bid on it. I’ll think about it.