What do you collect from cruise ships

[ryano]

I like their pens. Im sure they pay next to nothing for them but I like the way they write. And they look neat too, lol

 

Ive got my seapass cards from past cruises too

[tactic]

Fantastic memories and photographs. I'm not a collector of things which attract dust... Therefore a need to book more holidays to blow away the cobwebs ;)

[diecastaussie]

Have you tried EBAY they seem to sell anything and everything there!

 

Thanks for the response but surprisingly they don't seem to appear all that often on Ebay

[ALSEAU]

I started out collecting drink glasses until they became generic cruise line glasses. I also collected their deck of playing cards which is also generic for cruise lines. I do have a collections of playing cards for all the port-of-calls we have visited. I find it strange that no one has mentioned what I primarily collect. I have a key chain collections for 27 cruise ships and a key chain of every port-of-call.

[Artemis908]

I try to get a christmas ornament for every place I go to. Typically that's cruise ship shaped ornaments when I am on a cruise.

[grand isle joe]

credit card bills.....:eek::D

[ktbr11crs]

Cruise points, photographs, wonderful memories and great new friends!!

 

We also love to get vintage Royal Caribbean collectables from ebay. (e.g., Song of Norway ashtrays, Nordic Prince glasses, old maps from when there were only a few ships).

[FOXTROT]

Magnets from the ports of calls. Also collect sand from the beaches.

[Cindy]

sea pass cards and credit card bills:eek::D

 

Ditto.:rolleyes:

[KMagz]

A baby. (Technically we didn't "collect" the "souvenir" 'til 9 months later, but you get the idea...!)

[Scotty G]

Ship models, Crystal blocks, hats and T shirts, all documentation since Song of America. Memories galore and many friends!!!

[dogsambam]

Luggage tags dating back to my original Nordic Prince, t-shirt, ship models, hats.

[suezyq50]

Christmas ornaments and a t-shirt.

[cruiseorbust]

The usual...hats, gifts from C & A, casino points, sail & sign cards, christmas ornaments,drink glasses, email address from newly made friends, and email address from staff members! The staff has become my second family and it is so fun to stay in touch until we see each other again!

[tiger belle]

mainly I just make sure I get the embarkation photo and the one they take when you leave the ship at each port of call...I have kept my ID card and the daily schedules from each cruise I've been on so far but not sure I will keep them always

[Eng23]

Large bar tabs on the Seapass! :D

[Ren1216]

From the cruise ship, my Seapass. Also, I collect postcards from every where I visit, I date the back and keep them all in a photo album. So I always make sure to get a postcard with the ship & name on it.

 

My mom is big into scrap booking, so she saves the Compasses, ticket stubs, a luggage tag, stuff like that.

[BBT]

Magnets from the ports of calls. Also collect sand from the beaches.

 

I almost forgot this as well. Sometimes have to frantically search for a beach spot to get the sand if I don't do a beach day/excursion.

[whyrlygig]

Glass fish paperweights from the shops on board and post cards from each port stop.

[mardibc]

From every port we hit, I get a shot glass, t-shirt, coaster from any local bar with island name on it, christmas ornament (we have a cruise tree seperate from the traditional tree) a chunk of corral and or sea shells.:cool:

[dnwside]

Mostly it the seapasses credit card bills and lots of pictures. The only purchase items are the pocket beer bottle openers with the ship name and pic etched into it. That was the second purchase on a ship. The first being bottles of beer without twist off tops.:cool:

[lady_mac]

Magnets, t-shirts, and sea pass cards. My first few cruises I threw out the sea-pass cards. Never again!

[SewMuch]

Magnet with the ship's name to hang on the fridge, and some local coins. I've got a pretty good coin collection going and some of them are beautiful.

[briscogun]

Started with $1 casino chips. Now it's the ship magnet. :rolleyes:

 

Christmas tree ornaments from the ship and ports of call, DH also collects Hard Rock T shirts from the ports.

 

Julie

 

Ditto here! We have the ship magnets from all our cruises (save the first one in 1995) as well as Christmas ornaments from each ship, and even most ports of call.

[Sequim88]

Things we also collect (that others have mentioned):

• Sea Pass cards
  
• Cruise Compases
  
• RCI logo T-shirts (on the day they are on sale)
  

Things I did not see mentioned:

• Plastic swizzle sticks from drinks - with enough you can make a cool looking star/circle
  
• Paper drinking glass covers with logo - for my Mom who uses them in her guest bathroom
  
• Photos of MDR menus on wall at lunch time
  
• Photo of the ship name sign above the pool
  
• Maps of port areas visited - the older looking the better, especially nautical or navigation maps (reproductions of course) 1800 or older.