Booking our first cruise! And Q on prepaid gratuities on Carnival?

**NatalieG** · 22 Jan 17, 11:59 PM

Sooo excited! We booked a 4 night cruise around the Bahamas today as part of our honeymoon in 2018. We've not cruised before so hoping that 4 days is about right.

We decided to do the prepaid gratuities as part of our booking. Has anyone done this before? Does it mean all gratuities for the entire cruise? It was �85 on top of cruise so I'm hoping it would be pretty much all expected tips?

Thanks in advance

**margyloveswdw** · 23 Jan 17, 01:36 AM

Originally Posted by NatalieG

Sooo excited! We booked a 4 night cruise around the Bahamas today as part of our honeymoon in 2018. We've not cruised before so hoping that 4 days is about right.

We decided to do the prepaid gratuities as part of our booking. Has anyone done this before? Does it mean all gratuities for the entire cruise? It was �85 on top of cruise so I'm hoping it would be pretty much all expected tips?

Thanks in advance

We've just done a 3 night carnival cruise and opted to prepay our gratuities at the time of booking. Yes, everything is covered although you have the option to add extra if you wish.

We checked our onboard account balance on the room tv and they were showing as if they weren't paid but there is a self service machine by the guest services desk and a quick look in there at our account and they correctly weren't appearing.

Have a great time! We enjoyed our trip on the Liberty.

**NatalieG** · 23 Jan 17, 09:29 PM

Thank you for the reply

luckily it shows the paid gratuities on our email so I've got the proof there if we need it. I'm very excited! It just feels so far away.