Carnival Mardi Gras Redemption Pt.1: Embarkation, Cove Balcony Tour, Rock Revolution - ParoDeeJay

Look out Mardi Gras... we're back for a redemption cruise! Join us as we use GoPort to shuttle to Terminal 3 in Port Canaveral, hop onboard the ship, tour our cove balcony cabin, boogie down at the sailaway party, enjoy dinner at Cucina Del Capitano, rock the night away with live music and the Rock Revolution show from Playlist Productions, and more!! :D
00:00 BOOM!
00:04 Getting To The Ship
03:08 Cove Balcony Cabin Tour
07:21 Lunch & Luggage
09:53 Sailaway Party
13:56 Dinner At Cucina
16:01 Activating The Fun
19:43 Rock Revolution
Find our original Carnival Mardi Gras vlogs here:
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We're back onboard Carnival Mardi Gras for a redemption cruise after our last adventure ended rather unexpectedly! We sailed from November 6-13, 2021 out of Port Canaveral, Florida San Juan, Amber Cove, and Nassau. We've got some unfinished business... let's do this thing!
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[@mike44b]

5:22 Love how close to the water the Cove Balconies are.

[@parodeejay]

Our favorite type of balcony... yesssss!! :D

[@pennylawson9660]

I’m with y’all! FOLLOW THE RULES!! I think ( just my opinion) everyone should sign something stating that they will follow all protocols and if not they could be ask to leave the ship at the next port. People don’t have to sail if they don’t want to follow rules!! Sorry not sorry!

[@mrgreen9900]

I love the comparison to 'no shirt, no shoes, no service!' This is not about what you want, or what you believe but about the rules for the establishment! Jay I almost spit out my food though! LOL!!

[@tracymayertravel]

Seriously those people drive me nuts. I mean can we just be adults. Thanks for putting that out there.

[@craigwalz6508]

That intro show that featured all the various bands and music and shows is such a fantastic idea. I don't think i've seen anything like it before.

[@NauticalNurseNancy]

Hi there Dee and Jay!! I'm in "binge watching" mode since I'm done with another hard work stretch. I see I'm waaay behind, LOL! The show "Activate the Fun" sure did look very informative; what a GREAT idea! And that Rock Revolution show was absolutely amazing; we were blown away by the talent of those performers! Aaaaand thank you, editing Jay for including the actual music of the show; it really brought me back to when we saw the show. I'm with you...y'all, just follow the RULES so we can keep on cruising - wear your mask if that's what is required!!

[@blkmamba]

I agree with your point about following the rules.

[@darrinbigfootparker2608]

I would absolutely love a cove balcony. I love being that close to the water. As always, you guy's are great and we love ya!!!

[@jennywackershauser8473]

Yippeee... editor Jay got Mardi Gras out!!

[@thelaceyknight]

Hey Dee & Jay, yes to the Redemption Mardi Gras series! Can't wait to see more of this series!!! Fun ports you guys are visiting again!!! Nice!!! Love Cucina at night for dinner... Love your cove balcony! I would be nervous to be on deck 5.

[@alej8902]

Hi Dee and Jay! Great video as always 👍🏻 Thank you for taking us along! 🛳☀️🎉🌊

[@karmamule]

This video is a few months old but your videos are so good that it was worth a re-watch because our first Carnival cruise (and on the Mardi Gras!) is less than two weeks away and our excitement is skyrocketing. Thanks so much for all the fun/informative videos. We've watched so many videos of the Mardi Gras that it's going to be so very surreal to actually be on it.

[@lifeinmyemptynest]

Great video, fun to see Randy and I as you were filming the Sail Away. 😁 We can’t wait to go on this ship again.

[@eminiarvii]

Ahhhh. Really like the Italian music accompanying your meal showoff😊😊

[@cruiselady588]

Love yall

[@shawnawilliams6536]

I just started watching your videos. I'm sailing on the Mardi Gras this Saturday for the 1st time. I am loving your content. Yall crack me up. Well rounded info. Thank you

[@parodeejay]

Thanks so much! Most of our tips about Mardi Gras were in our original vlog series (which didn't end so well) as well as the preview event vlog that we did back in July! But I'm sure there's still some good info in this redemption series, ha ha... hope you have a great cruise!! :D

[@shawnawilliams6536]

@@parodeejay thank you so much. I'll check your other series out as well. We usually get a balcony, but this time an interior. Hoping it's roomy enough for my husband and I. Lol

[@tubaishansol]

I booked a cove balcony on Mardi Gras for my first cruise, I'm so excited you did this vlog. thanks guys.

[@RatBlox]

Congrats

[@theboguesandthensome3975]

I totally live vicariously through your videos! You guys are so thorough and I feel like I am truly there. Thank you for your videos. I went on the glory in October and I would love to go again. My funds just do not allow that. LOL!

[@conniejohnson9393]

Totally agree, follow the rules. Love your videos.

[@Tiffgil]

Glad your back! I missed you! Happy thanksgiving coming up

[@susanwhitebritton4629]

My brother and cousin were on that cruise and I just saw him walk by! Wow!!

[@junestubbs4008]

I will be on the Mardi Gras on the 27th. Hope I have as much fun as you two

[@corgimom1626]

I want to try the cove balcony. Nice room!

[@slinkyengelking]

This is so cool!! We were in 5469 the week before. ❤ Looked it exactly the same.

[@letseewhathappens101]

I love watching y'all your the best cruise channel on KZbin

[@tracydavis8152]

Was great to meet you on the Mardi Gras November 6-13! We enjoyed the cruise. The upsetting part we’re those who wouldn’t follow the mask rule. We saw it a lot. Hope to see you on another cruise sometime!

[@CliffordCruiser]

Great video! That isn't the Carnival Magic by the way. That is a Conquest class cruise ship, and I would guess that is it the Carnival Liberty since she was not sailing yet and is set to sail from Port Canaveral, although it is still possible for it to be the Freedom, Valor, and Glory.

[@hannasmom02]

I 100% agree. If they have a mask policy then just do it. Don’t be that guy that looks like a jerk bc he’s not gonna do what everyone else is doing. Plus hello Covid hasn’t and won’t disappear. Let’s just be kind and wear the dang mask. 😷❤️

[@edc6644]

I’m so excited!!! We doing the Mardi Grass in a few months and we are staying at the same floor you guys have now. Should be the same type of room.

[@lisa-le2ou]

I was on the Mardi Gras the week before you. It was nice to relax.

[@debby6235]

It is sad adults cannot act like adults. Totally agree on following the rules.

[@stevencalandra5226]

My wife and I love your vlogs. We found you searching Mardi Gras . We are hooked and been enjoying your channel 😀

[@ruthiepalmer5943]

Well said, just follow the rules.

[@keith215]

Thank you guys for this new video I'll be going December 4th the following you guys for a couple years now love the videos and two thumbs up on an opinion on face mask can't take this for granted and just do what's right 👍🏾 thanks

[@elaine1140]

Good on you!! The cruise director even told them how to sip and wear the mask. Some people think if they have a drink they can leave the mask off enirely, look at the sports venues!! I am glad yu are rule followers

[@mike44b]

14:37 Oh wow that's rocking! And that's a huge ship. Waves didn't look big, leaving out of Port Canaveral in 10 days on MSC Seaside, hope it is calmer than that.

[@mike44b]

Update: We had no rocking out of Port Canaveral, was a great cruise.

[@darleneeastburn7639]

People r so funny 🤣

[@sgtbrinny8982]

My wife and I booked a Excel Suite on the Mardi Gras in November 2022.

[@ChokolateCP03]

That’s so funny to me how people like to yell at the ships leaving lol and vice Versa lmao

[@dominiquebrown8790]

Hah! Totally seen my father in the video during sail away🤣

[@jessicageriene6841]

I agree with you guys, the rules are there you board the ship you agree to follow said rules, no you don't have to like them but you have to follow them. 2nd im out of Port canaveral in October when we surprise our 16 year old with a cruise on the Disney wish. I will have to post pictures on the Facebook group. He has no idea. Mom almost slipped a few times telling him.

[@fedex1339]

We had a Cove Balcony on the Dream its the way to go.

[@laurahenshaw3590]

I recently learned that the couch seat flips upside down to form a single bed in some cabins. Looks like that style in your cove balcony 👍🏻(the more you know 🌈🌟)

[@greggm6614]

And the seat under the vanity has a lid that can be removed for storage and flipped over to be used as a tray for room service or to bring it stuff back from the buffet or JavaBlue Cafe, where they have breakfast sandwiches and grab n go stuff the rest of the day

[@ericchristensen7959]

Well said. Loved the Vlog!!! Some people, just saying, need pictures.😏

[@pbainsadventure8566]

13:50 most definitely NOT the magic😂

[@arisdoragarcia7044]

Hi Jay and Dee, this is Aris. You are so right! We have been lucky on our last two cruises, the Miracle and the Pride that 95% of the passengers followed the rules. We saw a few using a drink to linger without a mask, but very few. I hope rules are followed on the Legend on Sunday. Great seeing you back! God bless.

[@janburkett2708]

Love watching! And yes please follow the rules!

[@jamieklennert6213]

My hubby is tall too. I unpack him and put his stuff in higher shelves and mine in lower

[@LynBailey7]

Love it, here in Wollongong, Australia, when I wake up to my morning dose of virtual cruising! Thank you so much. 🤗😊

[@stephaniebordner977]

I 100% agree about the masks. We were on the Mardi Gras last week and I saw several people without masks. I always wonder how they feel when they hear the announcements over and over about certain areas of the ship that are "mask required" areas and there they sit without one. If you don't like it - don't go on this ship! It's not all about YOU and about YOUR personal comfort people!

[@Juancarlo4342]

I use goport in port Canaveral but they definitely need to upgrade those shuttle busses

[@ThePrincessJuggs]

Yes, A new ParoDeeJay video now my day is complete :) love you guys

[@lboutard]

I have missed waking up to you two! I got to see Dee dance yummy food and great entertainment! What more could you ask for! 🥰

[@sharonh2172]

That was absolutely the sweetest most empathetic rant I've ever heard!!! I love it. People please, just follow the rules!

[@landaroon7793]

So glad to see you again! Two things: I totally agree with you about following the rules regarding mask wearing. You agree to this when you sign your cruise contract. On a recent Panorama cruise, I was impressed with the compliance in masked venues, so it's disappointing to hear how noncompliant it was on Mardi Gras. Second, the Rock Revolution show on Panorama was MUCH different from what you filmed on Mardi Gras, which surprised me. I thought it would be the same on all ships with that show.

[@Chrisnina84]

I was just on Freedom and there were a couple times I’d forget mine and run back…. But everyone seemed rather respectful of the rules! That’s definitely frustrating!

[@anakerose]

Oooh, that's super narrow at the end of the bed 😳 Only other cabin I've seen that's worse is the Oceanview cabin the Bliss had open for touring during the inaugurals. You really had to squeeze along the wall in that cabin.

[@johnnolan5579]

So happy you made your point and I agree with you completely. This is the major reason I will not cruise on Carnival. It's unfortunate that an announcement was not made from the stage that, if people don't follow the rules, they will be asked to leave the theatre.

[@parodeejay]

There was an announcement from an unseen Fun Squad member, then a separate personal face-to-face announcement from Mike Pack himself, as well as a Fun Squad member running around with a backpack full of masks, but they definitely weren't telling folks to leave by any means if they chose to continue maskless... meh... :P

[@johnnolan5579]

@@parodeejay I'm very disappointed in Carnival. Rules are to be followed, and, if not, enforced.

[@debwright4655]

With 20/20 hind sight I wish I would have filmed the cabin that we had as it was big and beautiful. The FAC cabins on the Mardi Gras are roomy as Mom was able to turn her scooter around in it plus, I had a dog crate for Glenna that tucked away under the vanity without blocking anything. Plus the balcony had two chairs and a table (all side by side) on the right side and a potty box on the left with an automated door for us.

[@BoatBreakersNJ]

Excited to see you both have a normal experience on the Mardi Gras, that BBQ looked incredible. Enjoy the cruise!!

[@spiritualcoachlisahopp]

I don't blame you both for being bugged. I would be too. :)

[@insidelookingout1159]

Just some feedback….I would love to know your itinerary every time you cruise from the ship you’re on…kinda like in your intro. Maybe I miss it every time but it would make it more interesting and you may get more subscribers. I love you guys though regardless ❤️

[@dellnichols4625]

Going on the Mardi Gras on 2/5. Totally agree with you on the masks. Don’t love them but who does. Be an adult. Don’t put the staff in an awkward position.

[@alyssasimon3940]

new trip on MG? we are excited to sail her.

[@kimoliver3470]

Great video as always!

[@lindamurphy7299]

Going on cruise may 7th 2022...have not made plan for flying in from New Orleans or driving...never went out of port carnival...any suggestions

[@monicadepoy5157]

Noticed. NO THUMBS DOWN!

[@sherryforde8287]

I completely agree on the mask situation. You guys are so cute!🥰

[@Neachy1979]

I was on MG in October and my friend’s 9 year old had to tell a man on the elevator to put on his mask. Kiddo said it and pointed to the sign. It’s amazing how a kid can follow and understand the rules better than an adult.

[@travismilner9190]

Hey y’all. Love the channel. I do want to ask if y’all know when the mask policy on Carnival will expire? I have no issues with masks or anything but what do y’all think might be the timeline? Enjoy your cruise! We will be on Mardi Gras May 28th!

[@parodeejay]

No time frame as of yet. I believe the mask protocol is still officially on through March 2022, and they would renew as needed.

[@jeffreysadventuresyoutube]

Love it!!! Thanks for talking about it!! We feel the same way. Simply fallow the rules!! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@cherylwinkelman1562]

Yikes, Jay, after that comment about Dee, you'll be sleeping on that balcony!!!

[@RatBlox]

Have you ever heard of celestial cruises

[@dianerosum4306]

I agree with you both 100% about the masks a rule is a rule! I don’t love them either but I have to wear one at work because it’s a rule! I didn’t realize that you left the original music and on purpose but I loved it!! it’s nice, keep doing it I know you just did the snippets, but it’s better than the editing music thank you thank you thank you. I knew all those songs from the 60s so it was great to hear the little bits of it! Thanks guys I’ll keep watching the rest of this sailing redemption cruise on the Mardi Gras

[@alk61695]

13:47, that's actually the Carnival Liberty. She just recently got her new paint job. Also is Cucina still included or did it turn back into a pay option?

[@kirablue1122]

Hello. Do you know what else was done to the Liberty? I will be on her in May. Thank you.

[@drakegreaud558]

@@kirablue1122 she got the new paint job also 2 new added restaurants

[@kirablue1122]

Thank you

[@samuelsoule8636]

Agreed with Tony and you guys, don't put yourself in a situation if you don't agree with the stipulations that were made readily available beforehand! Love your videos!

[@NancySettles]

My friend that I’m cruising with in December for Christmas is like that! with his mask! He has to be told everywhere we go to put his mask on! I wear mine. Love your videos.

[@ashngav2004]

I agree with you 100%. I'm fully vaccinated with booster and I have my flu shot and I wear my mask everywhere. I hope y'all had fun and I can't wait to see all the stuff and things y'all did. ❤💙

[@DPinFL]

I enjoyed getting to meet you both during the embarkation day deck party (I was part of the large 'purple shirt' group). I had a wonderful first time on Mardi Gras. Thanks, again, for the information you provided on the earlier sailings, as it did come in handy.

[@andreatuckman1084]

But the truth is, Carnival is cheap cheap cheap. So the majority of people not willing to follow the rules probably can’t afford any of the other cruise lines you mentioned.

[@parodeejay]

Norwegian is a pricy one, and Celebrity definitely is. Sadly, the choice may be follow Carnival's rules or stay on land for many folks, and some have chosen to just ignore the rules completely, both at sea and probably on land as well!! :P

[@greggm6614]

Cruise on MSC in a Bella cabin. Cheaper than Carnival.

[@nickm2791]

How many cruises does this make for you this year?

[@parodeejay]

After being shut down so much in 2020, we've decided to make up for lost time! We've fortunate to have planned a total of 15 cruises for 2021, and Mardi Gras was number 11!! :D

[@nickm2791]

@@parodeejay That's nice Buddy, keep on cruising. That Mardi Gras is real nice. I was on it in September, loved it.

[@mercyrodriguez5780]

Follow rules, is that so hard?

[@skahtspeidel2844]

Rules are rules….. 100%. Thank you for saying what you did. I completely agree.

[@Cloud7Travel]

It is disappointing to hear how many people not following the rules. Unfortunately this is not just on cruise ships. 😷😷😷

[@johnquillman3607]

Hint. Odd numbers..starboard, even..,port. USN ret

[@eleanor4482]

What a great video this was. Well worth the wait. Hate people who don’t follow rules who clearly should stay home. They should start kicking them off the ship. Thanks for sharing.😎

[@noradurham3162]

What was the name of the place you normally stay in Port Everglades?

[@parodeejay]

We used to stay at a semi sketchy Quality Inn in the past, and they were okay but not great. I forget the exact name but I’m sure it was near the airport.

[@RatBlox]

Um I never been to port Canaveral

[@andrew117_]

What is the cost of the parking versus at the port?

[@parodeejay]

$15 per day for port parking, so $105 for a 7-day cruise, versus $85 for 7 days of parking with free shuttle from GoPort. If you're looking for speed, I'd say park at the port, but if you're looking to save a few bucks, GoPort has been good for us thus far!! :P

[@andrew117_]

@@parodeejay good info. Thank you.

[@johnchojnowski8790]

No vlogs from your NCL cruise ?

[@parodeejay]

NCL was after Carnival. They’ll be up next!! :P

[@cherylrucinski1386]

Not a fan of the cove balcony, I like more light coming in than that. Love your vlogs.

[@Mrzizzy69]

Wait a sec, I'm confused. What happened to the Norwegian Escape that you did a live stream from a couple of weeks ago???

[@greggm6614]

The Mardi Gras was the week before the Escape, during the second week of their B2B2B on Royal/Carnival/NCL. Editing Jay is now just getting to the MG series. He is not a machine. Well maybe late at night, that's why Dee wakes up with a smile. After the MG series, the Escape videos will come out

[@parodeejay]

We usually go in chronological order. We sailed Odyssey 10/31, then Mardi Gras 11/6, then Escape 11/13!! :D

[@Mrzizzy69]

@@parodeejay Ah I see. I didn't realize you were on the Mardi Gras before the Escape but thanks for taking the time to clear that up. You guys are the absolute best.

[@jyd6414]

My wife and I laughed with the mask comment. This is why we are going on NCL. Not JUST because they require vaccine, but the not knowing if the others are vaccinated and not wearing their mask like you saw in the show. We do say, to each there own, but not when in close quarters. You guys are awesome!

[@shawnjhutchings5690]

Can I get a pair a DJ business card? I have to have one

[@amandajohnson8840]

I always love your vloggs but where did Dee get her "cruising is my therapy shirt"? I love it 😍

[@Dee-of-ParoDeeJay]

It is from SheIn. Online store. They have a ton of cool items.

[@ARCAdventures]

We gave a thumbs up to take away from any thumbs downs from your end of vlog rant! We personally loved and applauded it! Totally agree you should follow the rules! Even Mike Pack came out and explained the rules and as Dee said they have enough to do with their jobs and shouldn’t have to police selfish folk! Rant over as well. lol. We embark on the Mardi Gras on December 26th! Can’t wait! We drive to Orlando on Christmas Eve so will have to get our Covid test on the long drive! Great video!!

[@barbarashuster9029]

Totally agree ...follow the rules!

[@peggynadorff]

It bugs me too Jay..... rules are not to be broken.......

[@simplyatsea6779]

Yall gotta try a cove on a dream or vista class ship, they are on deck 2… super close to the water its awesome 🌊 🐬 Judging by the classic tall whale tail, i dont think that ship in the distance was the Magic 😉