Do you remember when??

[knuterock8]

We remember when our daughter was two years old and we were sailing on Fairwind (Sitmar). Sitmar supplied all diapers and baby food it was amazing. I do remember the plates and the constant moving and adding silverware. Great memories.

[Astro Flyer]

We remember when our daughter was two years old and we were sailing on Fairwind (Sitmar). Sitmar supplied all diapers and baby food it was amazing. I do remember the plates and the constant moving and adding silverware. Great memories.

 

Ah...Sitmar's Fairwind which we sailed in 1988. Not the best cruise ship we've sailed but easily the very best cruise "experience"! :D

[solle1]

shot skeet off the side at 13 yrs of age

[rp23g7]

The ships were smaller - much smaller!

 

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article about the Dawn Princess (aka RMS Sylvania) that I sailed on.

 

General characteristics (after 1971 refit)

Type: cruise ship

Tonnage: 24,724 GRT

Decks: 11 (I think they counted all the ones the passengers were not allowed on also)

Capacity: 925 passengers

Crew: 330

 

The Ship

 

Note the lifeboats hanging out

 

 

At every port, what was not white, was painted. It seemed like the sailors had pride in their cruise ship, or at least, very strict officers.

I think I saw her or another early princess ship in Mazatlan in 1992

[bbum]

I remember when the lobster tails were bigger than the shrimp!

[rp23g7]

We stayed on the Queen Mary for my birthday around 1993, it was a yr after our first cruise on the Jubilee. What a eye opener, when the focus on a cruise was style and class and relaxation instead of being on a "fun ship" with tons of activities and shore stops and things, not that there probably wasn't a lot on the Queen Mary.

 

I heard it actually did the Caribbean the last yrs of its cruising life. I guess that's what the movie Assault on a Queen was about. Holding up the Queen Mary for ransom off of Nassau.

 

We stayed in one of the suites which was maybe twice as big as a balcony cabin these days, it had a full bathtub, sitting area and bed and sitting table.

 

The bathtub was about a foot wide on the flat part on the bottom and about 3 feet high on the sides, guess they didn't want water sloshhing around.

 

alas no pictures available, this was before digital stuff

 

Anyone got pictures of it when it was sailing?

[Astro Flyer]

The ships were smaller - much smaller!

 

 

 

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article about the Dawn Princess (aka RMS Sylvania) that I sailed on.

 

 

 

General characteristics (after 1971 refit)

 

Type:cruise ship

 

Tonnage:24,724 GRT

 

Decks:11 (I think they counted all the ones the passengers were not allowed on also)

 

Capacity:925 passengers

 

Crew:330

 

 

 

The Ship

 

 

 

 

Note the lifeboats hanging out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At every port, what was not white, was painted. It seemed like the sailors had pride in their cruise ship, or at least, very strict officers.

 

 

 

In between being the Sylvania & the Dawn Princess (1989) this ship was Sitmar's Fairwind which we sailed in 1988 & then again in 1989 as the Dawn Princess minus the great pizzeria.

[jcc1025]

This is a great topic, we loved reading and remembering everything. We have sailed for over 35 years, but only on RCCL. Remember some of the good old days were not all that good. Long lines to check in and out, only one pool on board, and don't even start with the muster drills....lol. When we first sailed it was all cash on board and as someone mentioned the difference in price even without inflation figured in. Do problems come up, tell me the business you deal with where that doesn't happen? We think it's the best vacation going and looking forward to Allure again in December.

 

 

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[fishin' musician]

Great thread, albeit recycled. My history with Princess only goes back about 15 years. But we began packing crab crackers to take full advantage of the lobster claws on the first night's buffet! Far better than the warm water tails served in the MDR.