Nostalgic for Tropicale?

[Essiesmom]

Tropicale now sails as the Peace Boat/ Ocean Dream. Here she is in the Gatun Locks today:

 

 

 

 

Gaillard Cut heading for Pedro Miguel Locks:

 

 

 

Edited October 30, 2015 by Essiesmom

[Essiesmom]

At Pedro Miguel

 

 

 

Entering Miraflores Locks

 

 

 

 

[Essiesmom]

You can still see the slanted base of the original whale tail funnel

 

[Linda the Book Lover]

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I remember our excitement on embarkation day. She looked so large then!

[Tapi]

My first Carnival cruise in 1994 from San Juan.

[Seabreez]

Its where it all started - April of 1994 - out of San Juan. How those 37,000 tons seemed so large at that time. We were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary and were "upgraded" to the Empress deck. I was so excited until we opened the cabin door. Lower & upper bunks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Still laugh about it. I cried when we left the ship - thought we would never cruise again. Ha On #30 or so. The bug bit us and keeps on biting

[DebJ14]

Its where it all started - April of 1994 - out of San Juan. How those 37,000 tons seemed so large at that time. We were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary and were "upgraded" to the Empress deck. I was so excited until we opened the cabin door. Lower & upper bunks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Still laugh about it. I cried when we left the ship - thought we would never cruise again. Ha On #30 or so. The bug bit us and keeps on biting

 

We sailed on her in May 1994 out of San Juan for our 20th anniversary. We loved having an oceanview on Empress - so easy to get back to the cabin after the show. She was our 5th Carnival cruise, the first being the Carnivale back in 1987. We had such a good time in 1994 that we took the entire family for Christmas 1995 out of New Orleans. We board #34 Carnival (#55 overall) on Monday.

[Linda the Book Lover]

We spent a few wonderful days in San Juan and we booked a guarantee which landed us on the Empress deck as well. In '92 we went on a day cruise to Mexico and decided we really needed to up the ante and chose the Tropical. We took a little break and returned quite happily to cruising.

[brookeq]

The Tropicale was our first cruise back in 2000. It was a short cruise for our honeymoon. Got us hooked!

[i_love_cruising]

My husband and I sailed on her as Pacific Sun with P&O Australia. Such a lovely ship - it felt like coming home when we boarded her. Great to see she is still in service.

[TEXASMUNK]

you were referring to the original Tropicale

[CaptBob]

Tropicale was our very first cruise in 1996 and is still my favorite of all the ships that I have been on.