Silly question for cruise-related gifts

[mamasylvia]

My husband, his brother and SIL, our 2 adult children, and I are cruising next May. The 2 kids have never cruised, the rest of us have 1 cruise each. I have picked up a few cruise-related items I am giving as Christmas gifts.

 

We have a family tradition of putting a "from" name on some gift tags that is related to the purpose of the gift, and I am stumped on coming up with a clever name for the cruising gifts to be "from." All I could think of was Pearl, since that is the ship we will be cruising on. But if anyone wants to chime in with a better suggestion, I'd be delighted.

 

And those of you who like criticizing others: I said this was a silly question. The world will not come to an end if I don't get a great answer. Feel free to ignore the thread.

[Atomica]

Maybe they could be from "The Captain", or something like that? Sounds like a great Christmas gift!

[reedl]

I concur with 'The Captain' He or she is the head of the ship, and to get a present from that person would be cool.

 

Perhaps if you could find out the captain's name, you could even use that.

[Viv0828]

Gifts could be signed from Captain Hook or the character Johnny Depp played in Pirates of the Caribbean or Black Bart or other famous pirates?

 

 

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[Dayenu]

From Captain Pearl? :)

[FlyerTalker]

King Neptune is another possibility. Or you could use Poseidon.

[lola2013]

How about Captain Stubing (on the off chance they know he was the captain of the Love Boat)!!!

[mamasylvia]

Great ideas! My BIL and SIL would definitely recognize Capt. Stubing. ;) And everyone would recognize the Pirates of the Caribbean character (Jack Sparrow).

 

I'm probably the only one who would recognize Neptune or Poseidon. :(

 

My local WM had some very nice double-wall insulated steel tumblers in 6 colors,l so we each will have a different one. Will make it easy to bring along drinks and keep track of which belongs to whom! It's an idea someone here recommended and it sounded practical. I was balancing styrofoam cups of tea all over the ship on our last cruise. Not fun!

[SteveH2508]

Jack Sparrow's ship was the Black Pearl IIRC so there should be some mileage in that.

[Cruisin'Christine]

What about signing it from Molly Brown (as in the unsinkable Molly Brown from the Titanic)? Or sign it from the Lido Deck, Purser, or "the crew".

[Bonnie J.]

how about the name of the ship?

[beachbum53]

I guess "From Ensign Parker" (McHale's Navy) might be a bit obscure? (I'm a big Tim Conway fan. :D)

[Bonnie J.]

We were on Princess a year or so ago and the original Doc (he's 80 something) from the "Love Boat" was on board. He spoke to everyone once and we learned they actually filmed ON the ship for 6 weeks in the summer, during regular cruises! That would have been fun to be cruising when they were there. Would anyone know about the Love Boat if you signed cards that? You can probably show them the Love Boat on Google!

Edited November 19, 2016 by Bonnie J.

[mamasylvia]

I'm torn. Everyone would recognize Jack Sparrow but the Love Boat characters are directly cruise-related. I'll probably waffle until I actually apply the labels. ;)

 

Thanks for the ideas!

[ekajun1957]

For a female Disney fan can be from Ariel. Man could be Nemo or Crush. Depending on number in total group could use Captain Hook and his whole crew from Peter Pan, could make the gift tags with the picture of the character with the name. Also could print tags with Posiedan or Neptune or other less known characters to give the recipriant a hint. Or use the characters from Pirates of the Caribbean and match the personality of person getting the gift and put on the pictures for those not real familiar with the movies.

Edited November 20, 2016 by ekajun1957

[sparks1093]

Why limit yourself to them being "from" only one person? Lots of great suggestions here, use them all (and if you use one that someone doesn't recognize it will be up to them to research who it is and tell the group).

Edited November 20, 2016 by sparks1093

[NMLady]

How about from Steward or from Pearl Steward, asvin cabin steward.

[Cruisin Broad]

If you're giving the glasses you mentioned, what about Maitre D'?

[mamasylvia]

I may have to send them from different people to make use of all the great suggestions here! lol

[Nanny8]

My husband, his brother and SIL, our 2 adult children, and I are cruising next May. The 2 kids have never cruised, the rest of us have 1 cruise each. I have picked up a few cruise-related items I am giving as Christmas gifts.

 

We have a family tradition of putting a "from" name on some gift tags that is related to the purpose of the gift, and I am stumped on coming up with a clever name for the cruising gifts to be "from." All I could think of was Pearl, since that is the ship we will be cruising on. But if anyone wants to chime in with a better suggestion, I'd be delighted.

 

And those of you who like criticizing others: I said this was a silly question. The world will not come to an end if I don't get a great answer. Feel free to ignore the thread.

depending on the ports you visited, you could always use one of the famous names (Blackbeard) or something related to a famous person from that port (fictional or real).

I like the Captain Stubbing and other characters related to the Love Boat as well. Fun question to post :)

[sail7seas]

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Or Bar Manager? :)

Edited November 21, 2016 by sail7seas

[mamasylvia]

It's an Alaska cruise so I could make some gifts from Jack London. ;)

[MicCanberra]

What about from Juneau, Skagway or Ketchikan.

Perhaps from the Wolves or Bears or Sea Otters.