Carnival Victory 11-2 / 11-9 Review

[Aplmac]

No, not a Marine; just cheap! :D

===> No wonder we're buddies! :D:D

 

We've sailed through a hurricane before; well actually the captain was busy trying to outrun it.

Our ship tilted about 15 degrees from around noon until 7pm that night!

But...we outran it, or it outran us in the opposite direction...or something!

This was our cruise in Fantasy in '05!

Can't remember the name of the hurricane but we almost missed it.

We left port on a Sunday and it caught us by noon on Monday! :eek:

CD, here's the NOAA track chart of Hurricanes for 2005

complete with names and dates.

 

You may be able to figure out which Hurricane it was, by following the lines, etc.

Black dots along the lines are position-at-midnight

white dots are position-at-mid-day..

-takes a bit of figuring out,sometimes!

 

Hope this helps jog the memory!?

 

 

 

 

Whoaa! Lookit THAT!

[Cigar Dude]

Looks like it was Wilma; that sounds familiar too.

[Aplmac]

When you get your hands on these puppies...

 

you know your cruise is officially underway, baby!

[Aplmac]

Looks like it was Wilma; that sounds familiar too.

And Wilma's dates fit right in with these, extracted from your signature block..

 

10/23/05 Carnival Fantasy, Freeport & Nassau

[padre]

In St Lucia we did the Aerial Tram and Zip line tour

 

the is the Tram

 

 

and a view from the Tram of a group on the way to the 1st zip line platform

 

 

The Platform

 

 

zipping along

 

 

the view from the top of the jungle we zipped and Trammed in

 

 

a random photo on the way back to the ship

 

[tiggerman101]

Wow, this will be my fourth cruise and I think I am more excited about this one then i was for any of the others. Love the pics guys.

[NMCruiser55]

Yes we do!

 

I'm so jacked up about this friggin' cruise and I still have to wait until September 6th! I'll make it, but it sure is nice to see where we're going! :)

Heck at least your cruise is this year! Mine's not until 2010. These photos are great, I can hardly sit still now. :eek:

[Aplmac]

Heck at least your cruise is this year! Mine's not until 2010.

These photos are great, I can hardly sit still now. :eek:

There's going to be so many cruise-deals before then

you're almost certain to be cruising before 2010

[cat22]

Thanks APLMAC for all of the beautiful pictures. We will be on the Victory on Jan 18th - can't wait.

 

cat22

[NMCruiser55]

There's going to be so many cruise-deals before then

you're almost certain to be cruising before 2010

Most likely ;) But my Victory cruise is a CC group (my first group) so I can't possibly change that. :D

Sounds like I organized it. I didn't..just going as a member

[ilovethesun]

Just booked this trip for next year's New Year's trip! Padre, I'd love to hear how it was this year! Was the ship totally full? What did they do for New Year's? How was the weather? All these pics are awesome and makes me so excited!!!

[Aplmac]

.. my Victory cruise is a CC group (my first group) so I can't possibly change that. :D

Sounds like I organized it. I didn't..just going as a member

Both you and Cat22 owe this thread pictures, when you get back! :D

[padre]

Just booked this trip for next year's New Year's trip! Padre, I'd love to hear how it was this year! Was the ship totally full? What did they do for New Year's? How was the weather? All these pics are awesome and makes me so excited!!!

 

I dont know how to know when the ship is fully sold out, but it was crowded everywhere we went. Maybe one of the ways is to look around the dining room and see if there are empty tables. we did have some empty tables near us, but we also had the early seating so that may have been part of the reason. It sure seemed full.

 

We were given party favors and free champagne up on the Lido deck on New Years Eve. The party started at 8 PM, but most of us went to the Caribbean Lounge for the show at 8:45 and then headed up around 10 or 10:30 for the party. I am pretty sure by midnight (which is an hour before the ball drops in NY because of the time zone difference) that every single person on that ship was on the Lido deck, it was packed! The waiters were walking around with free glasses of champagne, but we ended up buying a bottle of Asti because we like that better. It was a very festive time and we stayed partying until after 1 to see the ball drop in Times Square. Those people sure did look cold! The Victory Singers and Dancers came out on the Lido deck to help us ring in the New Year and the captain came and wished us Happy New Year in at least a dozen different languages.

 

here are some party favors

 

some partying by some guests that attracted lots of attention where ever they went!

 

this shows you how crowded!

 

[Aplmac]

some partying by some guests that attracted lots of attention where ever they went!

 

 

Love the dude (dude?) over on the right!

Looks like he was having a gay old time!:D

[padre]

Both wore dresses most of the cruise!

[Cigar Dude]

Both wore dresses most of the cruise!

 

 

:eek: What tha...!!!! :eek:

 

 

Oh well, whatever floats yo' boat! :D :p ;)

[Kaboochi]

Aplmac,

 

Do you have any great pics of St. Kitts or St. Lucia beaches or recommendations on beaches to visit when we are there? Great thread, thanks Kaboochi

[Kaboochi]

Love the dude (dude?) over on the right!

Looks like he was having a gay old time!:D

If you've cruised with Costa, this pic is not even a warm up!!!! NOT THREAD HYJACKING, just replying to the comment:o Can't remember the ports but I remember the people (didn't even need a camera to always remember those Kodak moments).

 

Thanks to APLMAC I have a picture to go by for the wonderful Barbados beach we will be on in 27 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kaboochi

[Aplmac]

Do you have any great pics of St. Kitts or St. Lucia beaches

or recommendations on beaches to visit, when we are there?

Sorry...can't tell you much

other than Reduit Beach on St.Lucia

is not too far from the Point Seraphine Cruise Complex where your ship will dock

and I've heard a few ppl say nice things about Reduit.

 

Despite living in these islands, I haven't visited St.Lucia since 1986

(other than a brief May 2007 stop on Destiny,when I didn't do much:

hangover from Stugeron,the night before).

 

St.Kitts... only ever bin there once and we did a quick half-day (non-beach) tour to Brimstone Hill Fortress

but there's a nice hotel and beach out in their South-Eastern section,I'm told.

St.Kitts is not much of a beachy island.

 

Antigua and Barbados are the beachy islands

i.e. not all Caribbean islands are beachy islands.

 

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Hope this smattering of info helps, but I doubt it.

get over to the Ports-of-Call section at URL..

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5

and start plowing thru the various island-destination threads there.

There's a ton of individual-island info there!

[Aplmac]

If you've cruised with Costa, this pic is not even a warm up!!!! ===> We'll take your word for it!!

 

NOT THREAD HIJACKING, just replying to the comment:o ===> U can't possibly hijack this thread

- it's been crazy with Thread Drift almost since the beginning, and we like it that way!:D

 

Thanks to APLMAC I have a picture to go by for the wonderful Barbados beach we will be on, in 27 DAYS!!!!

Glad to help whet your appetite for the island/s :)

Which Barbados beach did you decide on, again?

Accra/Rockley

 

 

 

 

Now...more thread drift, please. :D

 

 

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Only thing you can't post here

is Alaska and Med. pics

but certainly any Eastern Caribbean pics

from either Destiny or Victory cruises is welcome

- they did the same route ..those 2 ships.

[Kaboochi]

Glad to help whet your appetite for the island/s :)

Which Barbados beach did you decide on, again?

 

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Only thing you can't post here

is Alaska and Med. pics

but certainly any Eastern Caribbean pics

from either Destiny or Victory cruises is welcome

- they did the same route ..those 2 ships.

 

Decided on Accra/Rockley

 

We're set on Antigua, great friends have lived there since childhood and they are going to spoil us (all 20 of us, we're traveling herd style this cruise:D) Kaboochi

[marniegirl]

That Sigma 10-20 lens I use on the D60 ..is more in the $500-600 range, I think...

 

I paid GBPounds 325 for it in the UK, back in Sept.

and it may be offered for a bit less as the crunch continues, so keep an eye out.

 

Check B&H in NYC for best prices and prompt delivery.

 

Just ordered this lens!! Thanks for the heads up aplmac! Priced very reasonably too.

 

Nice pict's padre. What are you shooting with?

[Aplmac]

Just ordered this lens!!

Thanks for the heads up aplmac! Priced very reasonably too. ===> Thought so! ;)

Wonderful news. Join the club.

 

There are several of us who own this amazing optical accessory,now

and there's been a thread going to this effect over at the CC Photo Discussion Area at URL..

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=118

where there are actually two threads now related specifically to the Sigma 10-20 superwide lens

which you might want to check out.

[padre]

Docked in Antigua

 

 

 

 

 

[padre]

I have never heard of this cruise line Amadea, but my wife was on the pier and she saw a hearse drive to the ship and they took a body off and loaded it into the hearse!:eek: