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Topic: What was your 1st Cruise?

nycruiser
First Class Passenger
Member # 960

posted 04-29-2007 11:18 AM

Not sure if we ever discussed this here but what was everyone's 1st cruise?

Mine was the Oceanic - Priemer Cruise Lines - 3 night Bahamas cruise from Port Canaveral back in 1987!

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Linerrich
First Class Passenger
Member # 4864

posted 04-29-2007 11:22 AM

Mine was also the OCEANIC, with Home Lines then, in 1980. Seven nights New York to Bermuda and Nassau. (I'm booked to sail on her again this November!)

Rich

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Jekyll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1878

posted 04-29-2007 11:28 AM

Mine was QE2 - October 1999 (during Canadian Thanksgiving). 5 night crossing from Southampton to New York. My second cruise was the same in September of the following year. My first cruise on a cruise ship - was Sovereign of the Seas in 2001. My... what a contrast !

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 04-29-2007 12:06 PM

Andrea C. 1979.

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Karsten
First Class Passenger
Member # 1509

posted 04-29-2007 12:11 PM

FEDOR DOSTOEVSKIY , now ASTOR.

Bremerhaven - Hellesylt - Geiranger - Bergen - Oslo - Bremerhaven. August 1993

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Willem
First Class Passenger
Member # 3005

posted 04-29-2007 12:16 PM

'Around South America' in 1959/1960 and 'Four Continents Cruise' in 1960, both as crewmember on Rotterdam V.

Bur seriously, in 2003 I finally persuaded my wife to make a cruise and we did a six-day on Caronia.

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OceanVoyager
First Class Passenger
Member # 5585

posted 04-29-2007 12:30 PM

SS Canberra July 1992 to the beautiful Norwegian Fjords.

What a ship, and what a cruise!

The memories of seeing a whale, lunch out on deck in Hardangerfjord and walking on Briskdal Glacier are still some of my fondest...

Andrew

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Grant
First Class Passenger
Member # 1000

posted 04-29-2007 12:53 PM

For me it was SS Oriana from Vancouver to Fort Lauderdale.

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eroller
First Class Passenger
Member # 1649

posted 04-29-2007 12:58 PM

LEONARDO DA VINCI. 1978. I was only 11 at the time but I still remember so many details.

Ernie

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6263866
First Class Passenger
Member # 5115

posted 04-29-2007 01:30 PM

Celebrity Mercury, 7 night Inside Passage, 6/15/2003, I was also 11 at the time, but remeber just about everything, un forgetable journey.

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 04-29-2007 02:46 PM

Shamefully my first cruise, and nothing to brag about or be proud of, was a simple 3-night cruise out of Miami on Carnival's Ecstasy in 1993.

It took almost 20 years from the first time I was introduced to ships via a Sea Classics magazine with Titanic on the cover. I followed cruises ships by making friends with the lady at the local travel agency and begging brochures of QE2 and France from her. I wrote the cruise line head offices and begged posters of their ships.

Like most of use I built models (albeit horribly) of all the great liners, over and over again for 30 more years.

When I became a TA I took 3-4 cruises a year, some comp'd and some at my own expense.

I havent been on a cruise now in over 3 years. I am grateful to have had the opportunity, when I did, to cruise that much. I dont suspect I will cruise again for a long time. I live the life of an 'armchair passenger' through all of your tales adventures and pictures.

I miss the sea.

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 04-29-2007 02:52 PM

My first was an 12 day East Sea cruise a/b Costa cruise Line m.s. Costa Romantica august/september 2000. Amsterdam, Bornhölm, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Visby, Copenhagen. Amsterdam.

Video 1 Costa Romantica
NASM 1873 Video Page. Scroll down to the Costa section of this page.

Greetings Ben.

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sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 04-29-2007 05:43 PM

First was on the Volendam II in 1981 for our 25th anniversary and now #'s 47 & 48 are coming up at the end of the year. You can tell I love HAL.

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Normandie-BCN
First Class Passenger
Member # 5780

posted 04-29-2007 05:47 PM

My first was on QE2 on July 2001. We went to the Norvegian Fiords.

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Linerdan
First Class Passenger
Member # 4719

posted 04-29-2007 06:06 PM

My 1st was Achille Lauro in 1992 aged 19 and a single traveller.......wow what a ship to explore and learn about

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jeremya
First Class Passenger
Member # 5699

posted 04-29-2007 08:14 PM

I sailed aboard the S.S. Dolphin IV from Miami to the Bahamas with my parents. We had a quad cabin. I loved that little ship. I must have been in High School, circa 1982-1985...

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LeBarryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 5308

posted 04-29-2007 09:22 PM

For my first cruise in 1984, I was a stow-away on the Carbe I from St Thomas to San Juan. The first cruise I paid for was in 1985, a three-night cruise aboard the Azure Seas out of San Pedro, California.

It would be tough to be a stow-away these days with the high-tech security systems in-place.

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Atlcruiser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4586

posted 04-29-2007 10:27 PM

May 1986 to the western Caribbean for seven nights on Norwegian Caribbean Lines Starward to Ocho Rios, Grand Cayman, Cozumel and Great Stirrup Cay. Fond memories of that cruise and ship.

Gordon

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Tim Agg
First Class Passenger
Member # 3185

posted 04-29-2007 11:15 PM

Our first cruise was the 12-night round trip Hurtigruten on the former Finnmarken in 1990, followed by the Regent Star to Alaska in 1992.

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Brian_O
First Class Passenger
Member # 3910

posted 04-29-2007 11:22 PM

1955. Farrell Lines' African Enterprise: New York to Durban with stops in St. Helena, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East London.

Brian

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ocngypz
First Class Passenger
Member # 1555

posted 04-29-2007 11:26 PM

1956 HAL Ryndam transatlantic to Rotterdam

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jeffrossatsea
First Class Passenger
Member # 2962

posted 04-30-2007 01:02 AM

nieuw amsterdam 1988 down the coast from vancouver to LA.....total fog....jeff

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mike sa
First Class Passenger
Member # 5957

posted 04-30-2007 03:07 AM

Windsor Castle Soton to Cape Town 76.
Pendennis Caste Durban to Cape Town 77.

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Steve Read (sread)
First Class Passenger
Member # 788

posted 04-30-2007 03:32 AM

Feb 1971 (age 14): A school educational cruise in UGANDA.
Aug 1985: A run around the med in CANBERRA.
Then in July 1999, #3 - a trip in SUNBIRD which truly got me hooked.
Just completed #40, in LIBERTY OF THE SEAS.

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 04-30-2007 04:27 AM

1965, aged 5, Southern Cross RTW.

Pam

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