What's the strangest thing you've used your balcony for?

[TonyaJune]

Just trying to get some ideas for some new and exciting things !

 

UNTIL I SET SAIL ON THE JEWEL OF THE SEAS

[lisajoy]

I will get back to you after we back from the EOS on 4-24.

[pieshops]

i usually bring along a fishing poll and try and catch fish

 

Until our Cruise Critic Group Alaska Cruise

 

Come check out the links below for our Cruise Critic group cruise to Alaska - August 2004

 

http://messages.cruisecritic.com/2/OpenTopic?a=frm&s=927093444&f=9693034447

 

http://www.cruisecritic.com/interests/groups.cfm?ID=43

 

Carnival Holiday 1991

Norwegian Sea August 2001

Carnival Triumph August 2003

Celebrity Horizon October 2003

[NeepierRoad]

I like to barbecue on mine. I always bring a cooler of marinating meat...nothing like the smell of charcoal at high sea!

[FOXTROT]

Wife' uses it to lay in the sun nude.

 

Sovereign 598

Sovereign 599

Sovereign 500

Voyager 1100

Explorer 501

Radiance 1101

Majesty 302

Adventure 402

Enchantment 1102

Monarch 103

Legend 403

Navigator 1103

Mariner 304

Sovereign 504

Serenade 1104

[BLUEICE]

I am sure this will get alot of interesting answers.

 

Best thing is breakfast on the balcony. No maybe the second best thing.

 

Grand Princess - Sept 2002

Voyager - Sept 2003

Explorer

until EOS with friends from the VOS

- Sept 2004

[kruz]

I like to throw a party for say...20....we just set our smuggled keg of beer out there...but be sure if you show to bring your own chair saving towel

 

Song of America 1996 spring

Song of America 1996 fall

Song of America 1997

Song of America 1998

Soveriegn of the Seas 1998

Monarch of the Seas 2001

Zandaam 2002

Mariner of the Seas 12/14/2003

Mariner of the Seas in

[the_psycho]

Keggers. Getting the keg through security is somewhat difficult, but once you're through, its a blast. Nothing quite as fun as the looks you get taking a 1/2 barrel keg up the glass elevators in the Centrum.

 

Be sure to bring some tiki torches and fake leis too. They really add to the atmosphere.

 

<color=#8b0000>until Serenade of the Seas Spring Break 2004!!

 

[mbisson]

Foxtrot

Please post a picture of your wife as well as dates, cabin numbers and deck plans that apply to your future cruises.

 

 

the psycho

Use a long rope and have a friend tie the keg on at the dock. Then just haul that sucker up.

 

-Monte

 

some of my cruising photos:

http://community.webshots.com/user/m1bisson

A bad day cruising is better than a good day at work.

 

The worst cruise I ever took was pretty damned good.

 

Platinum with RCI, a couple cruises with NCL and 1 with CCL

 

Who's coming with us on the Norwegian Sun?

[the_psycho]

mbisson,

 

Unfortunatly (for that plan, not for the location), we had an aft cabin on deck 10 on the last cruise, thereby accomidation half of the schooner bar and most of the RCI dancers from the production shows, but making the prospect of hoisting anything up from the pier pretty much impossible. Oh well.

 

<color=#8b0000>until Serenade of the Seas Spring Break 2004!!

 

[Sophie]

As we arrived in Key West the crowd on the pier began to cheer as though we were some ship full of Vikings returning home. My DH was very impressed with all the fanfare until we were informed that some woman on the balcony below ours was butt naked and going through some kind of religous ritual and drying her hair at the same time. By the time he found the camera the show was over.

 

Sophie

[GrannyJ]

Heck, that weren't no religious ritual. Mah bathrobe done got blowed overboard, mah #@&%! husband locked the balcony door and them danged no-see-um's was beginnin' to bite. The good news wuz that Ah did show up on "Old Ladies Gone Wild" on The Geriatric Channel.

[Folgy]

LMGO ,

 

too funny ...Granny

[breal6]

grannyj LOL lol LOL

 

PROUD MEMBER OF THE PPS

 

1 Princess

1 Celebrity

21 Royal Caribbean

 

Mariner 09/04 in

 

Jewel 11/04 in

 

Splendour 01/05 in

[ahoughton]

The balcony comes in handy for smuggling you beer on board. Throw a rope overboard to your friend below in his row boat full of beer.

 

03/27/04 NCL MAJESTY

 

"BABY LET'S CRUISE AWAY FROM HERE"

[sgttami]

Last month when we were on Radiance we were docked next to Carnival Inspiration in Cozumel. It was almost time to leave port and my husband and I had taken showers and were sitting on the balcony in our RCL robes drinking a cocktail (smuggled alcohol)when a group from Inspiration on the pool deck started yelling over to us about how much they liked our balcony..how much did it cost etc...and I found myself playing sales agent in a bathrobe while dripping wet and yelling over to the other ship.

 

Nordic Empress..*****11/04

Radiance of the Seas****3/04

Serenade of the Seas

Adventure of the Seas

Majesty of the Seas

Century (Celebrity)

Song of America

Monarch of the Seas

[HB Cruiser]

This is not very exciting but "might" be original. Not funny but effective.

 

Last summer on Voyager, every time we took our cameras and video camera out to the top deck or balcony to take pix, our lenses would fog up due to the heat outside and the temp of the lenses from our air conditioned cabin. Our video camera would say "Dew Detected" and automatically turn off. We started leaving our camera and video camera on the balcony, in their case of course, so they would always be warm and never once did we have the problem of them fogging up again.

 

As I said, not very exciting but effective.

 

Tim

[TTCruiser]

I like to repel down from my balcony to the pier when in port. It sure beats waiting for an elevator or taking the stairs down to disembark!!

 

NOTE...please do not repel on days when tendering service is only available.

[stretch]

Flying kites and skeet shooting are favorite activities of ours, along with fishing and hang gliding.

STretch

 

AAYE PARANDAA!

 

Carnival Celebration 08/97

Carnival Fantasy 02/99

RCI Explorer 05/02

RCI Brilliance 04/03 The Barcrawler Legend Begins

RCI Brilliance 03/04 The Return of the Barcrawlers

2005 Princess or Celebrity TBD

 

email address: Stretchcrawler@yahoo.com

[madforcruising]

Bungee Jumping

 

First pics of the undocking of the Jewel of the Seas:

http://community.webshots.com/album/125049819TVWuuS

 

Jewel of the Seas left Meyerwerft Shipyard

See Photos of River Ems passage

http://community.webshots.com/album/131001309cIkOdH

Jewel of the Seas - 05/28/04 Scandinavia / Russia / Baltic

 

Jewel of the Seas - 09/28/04 Canada / New England

 

 

09/2003 - Legend of the Seas Hawaii

06/2003 - Norwegian Dawn Florida and Bahamas

2002 - MS Columbus - Cruise to nowhere

2001 - Grandeur of the Seas Mediterranean and Transatlantic

2000 - Splendour of the Seas Transatlantic

2000 - Viking Star on the Danube River

1999 - Vision of the Seas Panamacanal cruise

1998 - Vision of the Seas Transatlantic

1997 - Crystal Symphonie to Mexican Riviera

1996 - Delta Queen on the Mississippi

1995 - Legend of the Seas to Alaska

[cprincess]

This has to do with the balcony;

 

We were on Voyager last year docked at Labadee(ok, close to it anyway). Got back up to our room and took my shower after being out in the hot sun, sand and water. When I step out of the bathroom, DH had the curtains open to the balcony. And naturally there just happen to be a WINDOW WASHER there on scaffolding. Needless to say he didn't stick around to get a better look. And neither did I for that matter. Back in the bathroom I went as quickly as possible.

 

 

Viking Serenade 7/91

Enchantment of the Seas (2 Back to Back Cruises) 9/02

Voyager of the Seas 11/03

Brilliance of the Seas 11/03

Mariner of the Seas 5/04

 

[childsplay]

That does it. When I retire I'm applying for a job as a window washer on cruise ships.

 

[megalyce]

HBCRUISER,

 

Just read your post about your camera. If you pack them and store them in Ziplocs when you aren't using them...it usually helps the climate changes...

 

Meg

 

Carnival Imagination 4/00

Holland America Veendam 3/03

[HB Cruiser]

Megalyce

 

DO you mean store them in your cabin in zip lock bags? Not sure what you are trying to tell me. Please explain.

 

Tim

[bobbie0253]

We had a window washer catch us ...ummmm... well, yeah....

 

You have to wonder just how many people have sex in the middle of the day on a cruise ship. I guess it was more than I thought!

 

By the way we were in port in Aruba

 

Bobbie

 

Voyager of the Seas in....

 

 

Adventure of the Seas 2-03

Enchantment of the Seas 3-03

Majesty of the Seas 5-03

Adventure of the Seas 9-03

Sovereign of the Seas 11-03

Sovereign of the Seas 1-04

Grandeur of the Seas 3-04

 

My albums can be viewed with this link...

http://public.fotki.com/bobbie0253/