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I’m now doing some research for a new project and I am keen to hear your cruising anecdotes etc. about your outstanding (or worst) cruise experience. They could be, for example, about the best port of call you have visited, the most memorable show or entertainer maybe you met your wife or husband on a cruise. The list of possibilities is endless, in fact the odder, funnier, stranger the story the better, even if it’s only funny many years after it happened. I would also like to hear about your favourite cruise line and/or ship, even if they no longer exist. In fact the only thing I’m not looking for are cruise reviews.
Regardless of whether you’re crew, sea of shore based staff a passenger or cruise travel agent whether your stories about your experiences with eccentric passengers or how you sailed through the storm from hell I’d love to hear your story.
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I was a younger man then! Where have the Cruise Talk years gone?
It turns out that she was living on board the ship at the time. She had a small inside cabin and at least one trunk full of formal evening wear.
I think that they would routinely rotate a trunk from storage to provide her with a new set of formal wear. We would see her out and about each evening and she seemed to be having a grand time.
quote:Originally posted by joe at travelpage:On our honeymoon crossing in 1990 on QE2 my wife met an elderly lady at breakfast one day. It turns out that she was living on board the ship at the time. She had a small inside cabin and at least one trunk full of formal evening wear. I think that they would routinely rotate a trunk from storage to provide her with a new set of formal wear. We would see her out and about each evening and she seemed to be having a grand time.
It was Bea Meuller [sp] who died a few years ago. It cost the same to live on the QE2 as it did to be in a retirement home. She did not want 365 days a year of Britain's damp climate. She was a platinum customer and got a special deal not open to the general public. The QE2 was always in warm areas, and got to meet new people every week. Legend has it she did not get along with all of the crew. Ah, different when you only know someone for a week. My retirement gift to myself will be an Cunard World Cruise.
One evening while having cocktails in the Ocean Bar he told the story of his first time as a ship's doctor on the Rotterdam of 1959. The ship had just left port on the first leg of the world cruise and in the middle of the night he got a call from one of the nurses about a passenger who was ill.
He got up and went to the cabin of an elderly lady but when he got there she was dead. He had no idea of the protocol of dealing with a dead passenger and neither did the nurses. Since it was his first time as a doctor he didn't want to wake the captain at 3am so he consulted with the on duty crew who suggested putting the body in the only refregirated place outside of the kitchen - the florist shop.
The plan was to wake up early and consult with the captain about a more long term solution. But before he could awake and do this the new florist (also his first night on the ship) showed up at the florist shop to get things set up and discovered the body.
As it turned out the doctor just barely escaped having to deal with a secind dead body as the florist almost had a heart attack when he discovered the lady in the floral shop refrigirator.
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