Spent a lifetime building them, but never sailed on them. Just thought of them as being too structured - deck quiots at 9:30, wakey wakey cruisers etc.
Finally took the plunge out of our home town of San Diego knowing that we could drive home if we hated it. In truth, did not want to get off when we got back to San Diego. Loved it and return as often as we can, which is not often enough.
The other messages remind me of many things. Seeing the Empress boats at the Landing Stage in Liverpool, converting the Viking Serenade, building the Disney Magic, etc.
I believe that the Empress boats were the first Carnival boats, bought cheap and converted to cruisers by Mr Arison.
I also have some cruise brochures for Royal Mail Lines - 14 days in the Mediteranean at a cost of 29 UK Pounds ($120). It was in 1939 and not the best of years to be cruising the Med I suppose given all that went on that year!!!
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Spent a lifetime building them, but never sailed on them. Just thought of them as being too structured - deck quiots at 9:30, wakey wakey cruisers etc.
Finally took the plunge out of our home town of San Diego knowing that we could drive home if we hated it. In truth, did not want to get off when we got back to San Diego. Loved it and return as often as we can, which is not often enough.
The other messages remind me of many things. Seeing the Empress boats at the Landing Stage in Liverpool, converting the Viking Serenade, building the Disney Magic, etc.
I believe that the Empress boats were the first Carnival boats, bought cheap and converted to cruisers by Mr Arison.
I also have some cruise brochures for Royal Mail Lines - 14 days in the Mediteranean at a cost of 29 UK Pounds ($120). It was in 1939 and not the best of years to be cruising the Med I suppose given all that went on that year!!!