BananaBoY From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 1558 posts, RR: 26 Posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks ago) and read 4196 times:
Having just returned from escorting a fam-trip / seminar at sea onboard Marco Polo, thought it would be interesting to see who has sailed or visited what.
Marco Polo was great. So much better than i thought. Sometimes, I dont need 15 restaurants or rock - climbing walls. Just good food and wine, great service, a comfortable bed, and interesting places to visit, in this case, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Klaipeda (Lithuania), Ronne (Denmark) and Copenhagen. I love the teak decks, the fact it was a "real ship" with slightly sloping decks, and that it has probably sailed round the world more times than I have had hot dinners. Yes the age on board was pretty old, but there were a few "young-uns" on board so the Charleston Lounge was the nightclub until the small hours most nights!
I want pictures though.. lots of pictures. Apologies in advance to dial-up users, but I want to see where people have been (oo-er!)
So, my picture-fest is as follows:
Marco Polo
Norwegian Jewel
Norwegian Dawn (with her "smile")
Norwegian Sun
P&O Aurora
Disney Magic
Thomson Sapphire
Thomson Emerald
Thomson Topaz
Thomson Spirit
P&O Oriana
RCI Freedom of the Seas
Fred Olsen Braemar
Think thats it. Now your turn.
Mark
All my life, I've been kissing, your top lip 'cause your bottom one's missing
R2 and R3
These ships have been bought since Renaissance demise post 9/11, Princess has some and Oceania has some (as does Pullmantur). They look like Pacific and Tahitian Princess, so I'll give you the Princess web site for reference: http://www.princess.com/ships/pa/index.html
Princess Patricia Princess Patricia (2) 1949 1963 converted for Alaska cruising, 1966 chartered to Princess cruises for Los Angeles - Acapulco service. http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/cp.html
Prince George
Can't seem to find much on this ship - I do know it retired and was moored in Vancouver (I think) for conversion to a floating hotel, caught fire and was scrapped . . . early 1970s.
AirCop From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 4170 times:
Royal Clipper (copy of the old clipper ships - 5 masts a real beauty)
Star Clipper - 170 passenger sailing vessel
Carnival - Tropicale, Ecstasy, Jubilee, and Valor
Holland American Amstedam
Costa Mediterranea'
Dolphin IV
RCL Sovereign of the Seas
KFLLCFII From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3262 posts, RR: 33 Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 4165 times:
Carnival
-Fantasy
-Carnival Victory
Norwegian
-Leeward
"About the only way to look at it, just a pity you are not POTUS KFLLCFII, seems as if we would all be better off."
Usnseallt82 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 4891 posts, RR: 55 Reply 4, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 4154 times:
KFLLCFII From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3262 posts, RR: 33 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 4153 times:
Usnseallt82 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 4891 posts, RR: 55 Reply 6, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 4149 times:
Aa757first From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3338 posts, RR: 9 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 4126 times:
Celebrity Zenith - Needed to be retired or seriously refurbished.
Royal Carribean Explorer - Very nice.
Norwegian Sun - Okay.
TuRbUleNc3 From United Kingdom, joined May 2006, 519 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 4109 times:
MV Azur x1 (Ex Festival Cruise Lines . Company now bankrupt)
MV Bolero x1 (Same as above, ship was leased to First Choice holidays)
MS Seawing x 5 (Left Mytravel fleet)
M/V Aegean 1 x1
TSS The Topaz x7 (Left Thomson fleet, whereabouts unknown. Apparently it was gonna be turned into a gambling ship and sailed out where it was legal to gamble as in the country its in, it wasnt.)
The Carousel x1 (Left MyTravel fleet)
The Emerald x1 (Still with Thomsons)
Michael Lermentov (sp) x1 (Sunk off the coast of new zealand)
Azerbiijaan x1
MV The Destiny x1
MV Spirit x1
Island Escape x1
Island Star x1
Fred Olsens Black Prince x1
'' '' Black Watch x1
Island Breeze (ex Thomsons) x1
Amerikanis x1 (Out of commission a long time ago, status now unknown)
Costa Europa
Not bad for a 19yr old eh i sure do love my cruises
AdamTStarFlyer From United Kingdom, joined May 2005, 64 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 4107 times:
TuRbUlNc3,
How was the island escape? Im booked on a cruise on that this month, have heard that is a good ship to start of your cruises on? Never been on one before!
Any feedback would be cool, if u can differentiate between all the cruises you have been on!
SmithAir747 From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 1599 posts, RR: 33 Reply 11, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 4103 times:
I have taken one cruise--in 2001 on Carnival's Fascination.
In June 2001, Mom and I took a mother-son bonding trip to Florida (which included a 3-night Carnival cruise to the Bahamas), courtesy of a promotion by a timeshare company (RCI) who operates in Florida. We flew TWA (DAY-STL-MCO) roundtrip, spent a few days in Orlando and then a few days in Fort Lauderdale before boarding our ship, Fascination, at the Carnival pier in the Port of Miami.
Mom and I had a great time aboard Fascination, and had an interesting table waiter in the Sensation restaurant and interesting tablemates. We have a photo album full of photos from the trip, and I have the most unusual photo--a photo of me taken next to a feather-clad Vegas-style show girl!
(Ever heard of RCI? They operate promotional sweepstakes prize trips to Florida, where they try to sell you a timeshare condominium on the beach in Fort Lauderdale. We won one of those trips, and they tried to sell me a timeshare!)
Usually, our family "cruise" is a canoe trip down the channels at Chain-O'-Lakes State Park in Indiana!
SmithAir747
[Edited 2006-07-01 22:57:20]
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made... (Psalm 139:14)
TuRbUleNc3 From United Kingdom, joined May 2006, 519 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 4070 times:
Quoting AdamTStarFlyer (Reply 10): TuRbUlNc3,
How was the island escape? Im booked on a cruise on that this month, have heard that is a good ship to start of your cruises on? Never been on one before!
Well its kinda 'informal' for those people who dont want to dress up, we found it bad as everything basically came at a charge, even to eat in the proper a la carte restaurant which was a disgrace.
We wouldnt go on that, nor the Ocean Village as they are informal, and we pay the same price for cruises that include everything.
End of the day its up to you which you choose, i myself, prefer the more formal ships which include everything, and you get what you pay for, rather than having to pay extra for things that with other ships, you get included
TuRbUleNc3 From United Kingdom, joined May 2006, 519 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 4062 times:
Ahh the M/V Funchal too, horrible tiny ship which nearly sank when i was on it due to sailing in the bay of biscay when it was a force 12 sea with 20 meter high waves, purely a miracle how it didnt go down!
CVG777 From United States of America, joined May 2000, 1251 posts, RR: 6 Reply 14, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 4057 times:
Royal Caribbean
Jewel of the Seas (12 night Scandinavia and Russia cruise, July 2005)
Harwich - At Sea - Oslo - Copenhagen - At Sea - Stockholm - Helsinki - St. Ptersburg x 2 - Tallinn - At Sea - At Sea - Harwich
This was an awesome vacation, especially since my family used miles to fly Virgin Atlantic Upper Class JFK-LHR round-trip, and we spent a few days in London before the actual cruise. My dad also knew the captain, so we got a few perks as well. Can you say free wine and a trip up to the bridge as we sailed out of Tallinn?
Celebrity
Constellation (7 night Southern Caribbean, March 2003)
San Juan - Catalina Island/Casa de Campo - At Sea - Barbados - St. Lucia - Antigua - St. Thomas - San Juan
Carnival
Sensation (7 night Eastern Caribbean Christmas Cuise, December 1997 I think)
Miami - At Sea - San Juan - St. Thomas - St. Marteen - At Sea - At Sea - Miami
Actually, I have been on a lot more ships than that too. My dad is a Harbour Pilot in Key West, Florida, so were were regularly invited by the captains of the the ships to come on board while it was in port to get a tour of the ship, eat, and look around on our own. I have boarded RCCL, Celebrity, Holland America, Princess, Disney, and Norwegian ships, just to name a few. There were many that I didn't want to get off...
Substitute Aurora with Canberra in the same location and that's my experience. I didn't go anywhere, I just spent a day on board on a school trip while it was berthed at the Ocean Terminal in Hong Kong in 1970.
Airdolomiti From Italy, joined May 2003, 680 posts, RR: 10 Reply 18, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 4014 times:
My first cruise was on Aegean Dolphin. Don't remember much about it, except that my mum and I were trapped in an elevator for hours due to a power outage!
Later, I went on a good part of Costa's fleet 1992-1997:
Eugenio Costa 2x (Greek Islands - from Venice) Daphne(Spain, Morocco, Canary Islands - from Genoa) Costa Allegra 3x (Norwegian Fjords up to the Svalbard Islands, and Baltic Sea, all from Amsterdam) Costa Classica (Greek Islands - from Venice) Costa Riviera (Eastern Mediterranean Sea - leaving from Savona)
JBLUA320 From United States of America, joined May 2002, 3160 posts, RR: 21 Reply 19, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 4005 times:
Edelag From Mexico, joined Dec 2005, 329 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 3994 times:
Norwegian Pride of Hawaii (Hawaii)
Norwegian Windstar (Alaska)
Celebrity Zenith (Caribbean)
I embarked on the Pride of Hawaii's 3rd commercial trip about 2 weeks ago. It was great a brand new ship with a few good amenities. The guys over at Norwegian were kind enough to allow us to see the Mexico-Argentina game in a bar where they have a big screen. We were 10 Mexicans out of 2200 passengers.
ArmitageShanks From UK - England, joined Dec 2003, 3362 posts, RR: 16 Reply 21, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 3988 times:
Goingboeing From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4875 posts, RR: 19 Reply 22, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 3964 times:
Notar520AC From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1606 posts, RR: 4 Reply 23, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 3941 times:
Coral Princess
Docked in Juneau
I forget where this is...
God, that was the best vacation. Was our first cruise- perfect destination & perfect ship! Service was impeccable. Never thought I'd enjoy a cruise (or Alaska) that much. Want to go again so bad!
You're docked in SKAGWAY, ALASKA in that photo. Zip Code 99840. Telephone prefix: 907-983
How do I know . . . .well, ermmm, I grew up there.
Please note the famous White Pass and Yukon Train to the extreme left of the photo . . . the paint on the rocks on the hillside just above the train are the names and crests of Cruise Ships and lines that stop in Skagway. The ship is moored at the White Pass dock . . .
I am really glad you enjoyed the trip to Alaska . . . we have a beautiful place here . . . I, for one, enjoy sharing it . . .
[Edited 2006-07-04 07:20:30]
25 AFC_Ajax00: I've only ever been on the QE2 for 1 night and a day, departing from the cruiseship piers in NYC. The ship basically just had to leave US Coastal wate
27 Myt332: I hate boats with a passion so I don't intend to go on any cruises, ever. I too have been on this dam thing, early morning crossing with high school i
29 YooYoo: Sea Princess. It was a nice ship, my first cruise and it was only a year old at the time. Sun Princess, It is a sister ship to the above but this time
30 CVG777: The Jewel of the Seas, which I was on for my Scandinavia cruise, is basically the same thing, and I agree wholeheartedly about the layout being excel
31 YooYoo: yep, very nice and it had a nice smell to it. i never played but it was interesting to see. i'm long overdue for another cruise !!
32 WrenchBender: T/SS Stefan Batory (Polish Ocean Lines) 1975 Trans Atlantic, Tilbury to Montreal. In the same vein as Usnseallt82, HMC Ships Protecteur, Provider, Iro
34 Notar520AC: Dangit! I knew it! I need to label the folders on my computer! Good catch ANCFlyer. We took an excursion with TEMSCO Helicopters there. They have a r
35 SGSPL: In February/March 2005 I went on a 5 day cruise. MS Fascination from Carnival Cruiseline. Miami - Key West - Cozumel (Mexico) - Miami.
36 Vaporlock: None......I have this I guess you could call it a phobia.....I don't want to go on a cruise ship as I can't handle the thought of being out in the oce
37 EA CO AS: NCL: S/S Norway M/S Skyward M/S Starward M/S Seaward (twice) RCCL: M/S Sovereign of the Seas M/S Rhapsody of the Seas M/S Adventure of the Seas (comin
38 ANCFlyer: Update on the current status of the SS Blue Lady (Nee Norway, nee France). Sad state indeed. http://www.maritimematters.com/shipnews.html Image of BL
39 EA CO AS: Ugh, it's a travesty. I knew she probably wouldn't return to service after the boiler explosion, but I had hopes she'd become a seaside hotel somewhe
40 BananaBoY: Update on the Norway.... Saw an article in a newspaper (can't remember which one though) which stated that the local government doesn't want to accept
41 Adam T.: Took a trip with my family back in 2000 on a Disney Cruise . We went on the Disney Wonder....beautiful ship and I have to say that I was very impresse
42 ANCFlyer: I thought they'd had that worked out? That's why the ship was towed to the coast off Alang . . . . Now what I wonder? Maritime Matters won't have an
43 BananaBoY: Organisation in the Middle East may be buying the ship and turning into a floating hotel. Apparently it was all over the papers in Dubai.... Mark
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