Our very first cruise was on the Mardi Gras in 1975. It was 7 days, Miami, Nassau, San Juan, St. Thomas. We had an inside cabin with folding upper berth. The bathroom consisted of a commode with a shower head directly above it. To dry your hair, you had to go down the hallway to a room that was wired to handle it. Two of the shipboard activities, which you couldn’t do today, were skeet shooting and a golf ball driving contest off an aft platform, with a tether line to mark distance as you drove your ball into the sea.
The cost was $399 pp and that included airfare from LAX as well as a day room in Miami. At 22, that was not just our first cruise, but our first flight.
We are now on our 38th cruise and hope to do our 40th cruise by our 50th anniversary. The ships have gotten bigger, but we still prefer smaller ships, with a bit more luxurious accommodations than we experienced back then. LOL
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Our very first cruise was on the Mardi Gras in 1975. It was 7 days, Miami, Nassau, San Juan, St. Thomas. We had an inside cabin with folding upper berth. The bathroom consisted of a commode with a shower head directly above it. To dry your hair, you had to go down the hallway to a room that was wired to handle it. Two of the shipboard activities, which you couldn’t do today, were skeet shooting and a golf ball driving contest off an aft platform, with a tether line to mark distance as you drove your ball into the sea.
The cost was $399 pp and that included airfare from LAX as well as a day room in Miami. At 22, that was not just our first cruise, but our first flight.
We are now on our 38th cruise and hope to do our 40th cruise by our 50th anniversary. The ships have gotten bigger, but we still prefer smaller ships, with a bit more luxurious accommodations than we experienced back then. LOL