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Topic: Question For All--How Many Cruises on the SS NORWAY

DAMBROSI
First Class Passenger
Member # 100

posted 03-21-2004 09:24 AM

have you done??? We managed to get 3 cruises in.....and were supposed to do a fourth.....I am going to miss this beautiful ship....just one more cruise and I would have been satisified. OH NCL!!!!!!!

Posts: 2554 | From: Florida, USA, Where the Legend SS NORWAY sailed from. Moving back to FL next yr. | Registered: May 99 | IP: Logged

mec1
First Class Passenger
Member # 4287

posted 03-21-2004 01:05 PM

I have sailed on her five times and I will miss her too.

Posts: 1675 | From: London, England | Registered: Nov 2003 | IP: Logged

desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 03-21-2004 01:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mec1:
I have sailed on her five times and I will miss her too.

Just once: April 2001

Posts: 5727 | From: Philadelphia, Pa [home of the SS United States] | Registered: Oct 2000 | IP: Logged

linerguy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4289

posted 03-21-2004 01:52 PM

Also just once...Aug. '02

Loved it...and her.

Russ

[ 03-21-2004: Message edited by: linerguy ]

Posts: 1486 | From: Bright, Indiana | Registered: Dec 2003 | IP: Logged

Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 03-21-2004 01:56 PM

You guys are so lucky! Too bad her boiler blew up 4 months too early....

Posts: 6108 | From: Vallejo,CA : California Maritime Academy!!! | Registered: Nov 2002 | IP: Logged

Globaliser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4153

posted 03-22-2004 03:20 AM

Three - and three years in a row, too. October 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Posts: 1869 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2003 | IP: Logged

Frank X. Prudent
First Class Passenger
Member # 1723

posted 03-22-2004 03:27 AM

Two all too fleeting cruises; the last one less than two months before her boiler explosion.

Farewell, Grande Dame!

Posts: 577 | From: Covington, Kentucky, U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 2000 | IP: Logged

Beezo
First Class Passenger
Member # 1505

posted 03-22-2004 10:30 AM

Just once...April 2000....the BEST vacation I have EVER had!

~Brian

Posts: 865 | From: Massachusetts, USA | Registered: Aug 2000 | IP: Logged

Mariposa
First Class Passenger
Member # 4174

posted 03-22-2004 02:13 PM

8 cruises on SS Norway: 1980; 1981; 1982 (2); 1989; 1992; 1997; 2000. Very sorry to see her go from the US market. NCL did very well with her and by her for almost a quarter of a century (typically the lifetime of a liner!) Can't help but think that if she were part of the Carnival family (!), she would have gone the way of the torch long ago. With any luck, we will see her in another chapter of a long & successful life.

Posts: 101 | From: Vermont, USA | Registered: Sep 2003 | IP: Logged

eandjracquet
First Class Passenger
Member # 3558

posted 03-22-2004 02:44 PM

Just one, July 2002.

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tg_lindo
First Class Passenger
Member # 806

posted 03-22-2004 02:55 PM

When I nabbed the brochure from a travel agent as a teenager in 1980, I vowed to cruise on the Norway. It took until Oct 1999 for the dream to come true. It was awesome. So much fun, in fact, that we brought appreciative friends for a second cruise in Nov. 2000.

In hind sight, I should have taken the Rembrandt in '99...I "missed the boat" on that one, but twice on Norway made up for it, once on Norway deck with original mirror vanity LOVE THOSE and once in a sky deck mini-suite.

Posts: 349 | From: San Francisco, CA | Registered: May 99 | IP: Logged

linerlover
First Class Passenger
Member # 3177

posted 03-22-2004 08:08 PM

14 glorious times, including 2 transatlantics (the BEST) and 1 back-to-back. Was supposed to go again 2 weeks after the accident, plus had 3 more cruises booked which were cancelled. I've sailed on 3 other ships, and think that NOTHING compares to the Blue Lady. I still refuse to give up hope of one day again strolling down her elegant 5th Avenue and Champs Elysee, enjoying afternoon tea in the incomparable Club Internationale, gazing up (way up!) at those magnificent funnels, exploring all her mysterious nooks and crannies - I can't go on, because the thought of never experiencing her again is not bearable yet.

Marilyn

Posts: 43 | From: Florida | Registered: Jul 2002 | IP: Logged

SpiritSailor
First Class Passenger
Member # 4355

posted 03-22-2004 08:38 PM

Double post

[ 03-22-2004: Message edited by: SpiritSailor ]

Posts: 31 | From: Riverview, New Brunswick Canada | Registered: Jan 2004 | IP: Logged

SpiritSailor
First Class Passenger
Member # 4355

posted 03-22-2004 08:40 PM

We had one wonderful trip in either January 1980 or 1981, her first season. We had cabin NO76 on the Norway deck and ate in the big round dining room. Our cabin had an etching of some French castle on the wall.

It was a great and exciting trip, with a brand new Norway before she added top decks. I would stand at night on top of the bridge and have a conversation with the Norwegian officer on watch when he was out on the portside bridge wing.

Everything seemed new, so clean, well designed and simply huge. With the band playing at the after pool whenever we departed, other cruise ships would come in close or circle to get a good look. We were considered superstars by those in their little puddle jumbers. My how time humbles us all.

SpiritSailor

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Posts: 31 | From: Riverview, New Brunswick Canada | Registered: Jan 2004 | IP: Logged

Cambodge
First Class Passenger
Member # 906

posted 03-22-2004 09:22 PM

I think you should add voyages on "France" to the menu to make it complete.

Wife and self:
1 6 day westbound crossing on "France" - 1969
1 15 Day NY-NY Carib cruise on "France" - 1972

Same hull and engines, but a world of difference, in decor, service, food, and ambiance. Which is why we could not bring ourselves to sail on "Norway." There are some here who will understand.

Posts: 2149 | From: St. Michaels MD USA , the town that fooled the British! | Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged

Kelly D Payne
First Class Passenger
Member # 4205

posted 03-23-2004 12:41 AM

I had finally booked a cruise on the norway but 2 days later the boiler blew.Now 'ill never get the chance.

Posts: 57 | From: louisville ky | Registered: Oct 2003 | IP: Logged

jake14
First Class Passenger
Member # 602

posted 03-23-2004 04:12 AM

i went in april of 2003

Posts: 136 | From: susanville ca us | Registered: May 99 | IP: Logged

DAMBROSI
First Class Passenger
Member # 100

posted 03-23-2004 03:38 PM

Our first cruise on her: Sat. Aug. 22, 1992. Two days later.....Hurricane Andrew blew in. Most of the pax. were from that area where Andrew came in. I'll never forget seeing pax. trying to get home. Their luggage in the lifeboats, hoping to catch a flight home to their homes....what was left of them. They had the big screen TV sent up to what was Checker's Lounge, you could have heard a pin drop. The room was full of pax. seeing the devastation. We saw how big the hurricane was, when we saw the Weather Channel being shown on the TV screen in the Monte Carlo Casino. I recall tugging at my husband's saying: "This is bigger than Camille of '69." I had'nt been through Camille, but the shear size of Andrew told me it was a Cat. 5 hurricane. Missing the BIG BLUE LADY.
BTW, I was able to sail the REMBRANDT in Jan. 2000, it was wonderful, took lots of photos of her inside and out.
I hope to get those posted on here too. That was a response to someone who did'nt sail the REMBRANDT...can't recall who did that post.

Posts: 2554 | From: Florida, USA, Where the Legend SS NORWAY sailed from. Moving back to FL next yr. | Registered: May 99 | IP: Logged

Beezo
First Class Passenger
Member # 1505

posted 03-23-2004 03:56 PM

Hey sorry I know this is completely off topic, but I remember when I was on the Norway, someone working on board, MIGHT have been an officer, said that the ship normally does 18 Knots, but said that during hurricane Hugo (or maybe a different one) they got the ship upto 25 Knots to avoid the storm!!!!!

~Brian

Posts: 865 | From: Massachusetts, USA | Registered: Aug 2000 | IP: Logged

Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 03-23-2004 04:18 PM

Eight times for me.

Posts: 1851 | From: Bloomington, Minnesota (Home to the Mall of America) | Registered: Mar 99 | IP: Logged

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