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I figured it would be interesting for us to read everyone’s stories - what cruise that you guys have taken over the years was your most memorable? It could be because of a destination, excursion you took or maybe it was your first cruise - or even unfortunately the last cruise you took with a loved one before they passed. I look forward to hearing some stories! 

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Alaska on miracle. We had a naturalist onboard who told us the night before what to watch for. Whales at 7 am, everyone would be lined up in chairs along the windows of the buffet with their binoculars. I liked that it seemed like a group enjoying things and pointing out stuff to each other. Look over there is a eagle. Oooh whale just jumped. 

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30 foot seas for about 12 hours returning to Baltimore on GR a few years ago.  Other than that, they all have something to be memorable for, whether it's meeting new people, doing fun excursions, etc.  

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I have two:

 

Circumnavigation of Australia on the Rhapsody.  Sydney to Perth, with amazing stops and sights.

 

My 50th wedding anniversary cruise March-May in 2019, but it was 2ships: Jewel and Adventure.  From San Diego through the Panama Canal, Transatlantic, Mediterranean, flew to Fort Lauderdale, Adventure Caribbean cruise plus all the way up to Nova Scotia.

 

Both were trips of a lifetime, and my husband passed away in March 2021, so I am VERY glad we had that anniversary trip together. 

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1979 first cruise Song of Norway. We ran from hurricane David and Frederick. 7 days turned into 8 days made only one stop in St. Thomas and walked thru town with water around our ankles. Still enjoyed the cruise and used our 100% refund and rebooked for 1980.

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3 minutes ago, dbancroft said:

1979 first cruise Song of Norway. We ran from hurricane David and Frederick. 7 days turned into 8 days made only one stop in St. Thomas and walked thru town with water around our ankles. Still enjoyed the cruise and used our 100% refund and rebooked for 1980.

Well, I guess I should also say our first cruise on the Nordic Prince in 1973.  We were sooooo blown away by it.  Little dinky ship, little dinky shows, but oh-so wonderful.  That's when we knew we loved the Caribbean.

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DrewCC2225

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33 minutes ago, pcur said:

I have two:

 

Circumnavigation of Australia on the Rhapsody.  Sydney to Perth, with amazing stops and sights.

 

My 50th wedding anniversary cruise March-May in 2019, but it was 2ships: Jewel and Adventure.  From San Diego through the Panama Canal, Transatlantic, Mediterranean, flew to Fort Lauderdale, Adventure Caribbean cruise plus all the way up to Nova Scotia.

 

Both were trips of a lifetime, and my husband passed away in March 2021, so I am VERY glad we had that anniversary trip together. 

I’m sorry to hear about your husband. How great though the two of you got to enjoy those lifetimes trips together before he passed! Are you still cruising?

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Harmony of the Seas on her maiden transatlantic to the US.  At that time she was the largest ship in the world. We were met by her two sister ships at time - Oasis and Allure.  There was a photo op with the three lined up off the coast of Port Everglades.  Was quite a show! 

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My most memorable was our cruise in 2009.  from Port Canaveral around South America to LA.  It was actually 3 cruises for a total of 46 days on Mariner.  Some of my favorite memories were overnights in Rio and Buenos Aries, walking on Penguin Island with thousands of penguins in Ushuaia, and wine tasting in Chile.  Great cruise! 
 

Second best was a cruise on Radiance across the Pacific from Sydney to Honolulu with a B2B that circumvented the Hawaiian islands and ended in Vancouver.  30 amazing nights!

 

Sherri🙂

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After 80 cruises and still going we have have many enjoyable cruises. However only a few were exceptional. The Sky Princess for one. The Harmony blew us away with the shows' and the ship itself. Two others. Carnival Sensation and Royals Serenade of the Seas.

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The most  memorable  cruise for the wrong reasons  was  the monarch of the seas
Allocated  cabin had a crew member  in it 
Visited guest services and informed them, told to wait  to 5pm  and cabin would be ready,  no,  crew member  still there, just got out of bed. Back to guest services.
Second  cabin had guests clothes  in.
Visited guest  services  5 times to correct.
Still no cabin  at 7pm, finally  received  a cabin upgraded at 9pm when we asked for the ship to return  to port  to disembark us, which we known it would not happen.

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Our first cruise on RC Voyager of the Seas . We were new to cruising and were real happy with our selection. 

Remember a Beatles tribute band that was so good we saw the show twice that night.

Later on , several years later we stepped onto the Oasis , and boy were we wowed . 

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1 hour ago, sjb317 said:

My most memorable was our cruise in 2009.  from Port Canaveral around South America to LA.  It was actually 3 cruises for a total of 46 days on Mariner.  Some of my favorite memories were overnights in Rio and Buenos Aries, walking on Penguin Island with thousands of penguins in Ushuaia, and wine tasting in Chile.  Great cruise! 
 

Second best was a cruise on Radiance across the Pacific from Sydney to Honolulu with a B2B that circumvented the Hawaiian islands and ended in Vancouver.  30 amazing nights!

 

Sherri🙂

 

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Our 10th anniversary Western Med Cruise. We started our day with Mass at the Vatican, embarked on what would have been my Grammie's 97th birthday, and celebrated on our balcony with a special bottle of wine from my cousin's wedding. Plus, my husband was a "celebrity" on the cruise since he won $2500 with a Royal Flush! Oh, and he was won 300 Euro at the Casino de Monte-Carlo! 

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My very first cruise holds a special place in my heart which was an 11 night sailing in the Caribbean on the Celebrity Horizon out of Tampa.  The ship looked so big to me but we had an amazing time.  After that would be a TP on Ovation OTS for our 30th anniversary in 09/2019.  It was a 19 night crossing that embarked in Hawaii ended in Sydney.  We decided to do a B2B on her with a 9 nighter around NZ, staying in the same cabin which was a CLS.  We had an amazing time and were spoiled rotten.

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Royal Caribbean...many (many) years ago onboard the Song of America. We had a table for 8 and a wonderful British couple along with the Staff Captain sat with us every night. The 3 remaining seats were taken by various entertainers and dancers.

 

Special meals and wine every night...with the dancers drinking "shots" and telling wild stories I cannot repeat here on CC. We were addicted to cruising ever since...we didn't know any better.

 

* Non Royal Caribbean ship...Renaissance Cruises. South Pacific cruise out of Papeete. Incredible ship, outstanding crew and amazing food. The sail into Bora-Bora was absolutely breathtaking.

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Hard question after 70 plus cruises but I would pick our brilliance cruise out of Barcelona 6 years ago to celebrate our 25 anniversary, did a couple of days in Barcelona which is amazing, then 12 night cruise with 5 stops in Italy including Venice and Florence, also Dubrovnik and Kotor. Had a beautiful corner aft grand suite #1600. 

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Just now, Cigar King said:

For me it was that last cruise before the Covid shutdown.  Crazy weird to be on a, what seemed to me, an almost empty ship.

 

 

 

We had right at 600 folks on the Allure test cruise. It was kinda creepy some times

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