Topic: Anyone collect cruise-cards?

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Yes I do too and stick em in my album - but since last year Cunard always make us return them :-(

Yes we had to hand ours in when we left Brilliance of the Seas in February....when I queried it they said it was for 'security reasons' !!

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Yes we had to hand ours in when we left Brilliance of the Seas in February
....when I queried it they said it was for 'security reasons' !!

And that's when you just remember...
Oh heck -I packed them in my big luggage which has already gone ashore..hours ago!
Here's my passport -use that to check me out and off the ship. ;)


How come Carnival lets you keep their card?
Are their computers and security systems smarter than other lines?
Do 99.999% of cruise-cards have expiry dates on them?

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Yes we had to hand ours in when we left Brilliance of the Seas in February....when I queried it they said it was for 'security reasons' !!

Not so on the Legend in May, & if they'd asked there would have been a row as I've been collecting these for years.........

Obviously depends who is on the gangway when you leave the ship!!! We've always been able to keep them in the past so we presumed it was a new ruling...

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Obviously depends who is on the gangway when you leave the ship!!!
We've always been able to keep them in the past, so we presumed it was a new ruling...

No no..it(the reason/excuse) changes all the time.

Usually, it's when they've got a computer glitch and the Boink! machine isn't working
and so they have to take your card so they can (later)manually take you out of the system
as having disembarked at the end of your cruise
but usually (usually) they let you keep it -at least the American cruise lines seem to.

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It's not difficult to work out how to 'keep' a card if this becomes the norm.........

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And that's when you just remember...
Oh heck -I packed them in my big luggage which has already gone ashore..hours ago!
Here's my passport -use that to check me out and off the ship. ;)


How come Carnival lets you keep their card?
Are their computers and security systems smarter than other lines?
Do 99.999% of cruise-cards have expiry dates on them?

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As soon as you leave the ship the IT guys clear out and no doubt save to a back-up disk the past weeks; 10days; 14 days passenger cards so they stop working as soon as this is done..Bill

Thanks boys I have really enjoyed this thread !:D

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Same nonsense with Ocean Village.
The excuse is some crap about "security concerns" -give me a break!

If you ask at disembarcation they normally let you keep the cards ~ or they did on our last cruise in Feb

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If you ask at disembarcation they normally let you keep the cards
~ or they did on our last cruise in Feb

OK I accept that.

What I don't get is..having to ask to keep the cards.
Carnival gives you your card right back in your hand
at final disembarkation.

Don't other/(UK) lines know what a Personal Item one's cruise card becomes
over the course of a week?
Cruise lines should be glad to have pax keep them as mementos/souvenirs of their memorable cruise.

Had I known, I'd have 2 OV cruise cards in my collection
but I don't. Un-necesairly so, I now find out.
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