Fond memories of Carnival Holiday

For those of you who would like to sail on her just one more time, you could make it a very long cruise, as she is doing a World Cruise next year in her current livery as Magellan with Cruise & Maritime:

Fond memories, not fond enough to go on this trip.

If I win the lottery, I'm there!

Looks fabulous! Wonder if the poor little ship can do it? She was old, years ago. How long can she sail? Did love the cruises, still.:)

The ship looks fantastic. C&M put some money into it.

Interior pictures are beautiful. She must have "good bones!" :) I would love to go!

I'd love to sail on that ship again. She looks wonderful now

Very fond memories of the Holiday as she was my first!! Would love to do that 120 day World cruise, just need to win the lottery! :D

anyone have any pics to share of the Holiday or Mardi Gras?

anyone have any pics to share of the Holiday or Mardi Gras?

How about a Carnival Capers and a Sail & Sign card from 1986?

Wow, how things have changed.

We had fun on our first cruise on Fantasy, but we fell in love with cruising on our second cruise which was on the Holiday.

Wow! A midnight buffet and 2 opportunities for complimentary rum swizzles!!! :D

OMG how I would love to do this. She holds many memories for me. That is how I moved most of my belongings to Cozumel 10 years ago!!

I'm just the opposite....I sailed the Holiday back in the spring of 2004, and while I have great memories of New Orleans and sailing down the Mississippi River into the Gulf, the ship itself left me underwhelmed. I think I sailed that size and age ship once more before moving onto the Conquest class.

We were on one of her last cruises from Mobile. I remember laying in bed listening to her creak and groan, wondering if we'de make it back to Mobile. Two pipes burst in the area of our cabin. We made it and saw her about a year or more later in Barcelona. She was all painted up and named the Iberian Holiday.

We loved our cruise on the Holiday out of Mobile simply because it was such an easy, unpretentious cruise aboard a ship like none of the newer ships. She was small, outdated and old but we loved every minute of it.

I remember sailing back from Cozumel to Mobile on our last sea day and noticing that the ship was visibly listing to one side. If you stood in the middle and looked to one side you'd see ocean and if you looked to the other side you'd see sky! [emoji33] I asked one of the officers and he said that it was perfectly normal since the Holiday was an older smaller ship without modern stabilizers, so her way of dealing with the crosswinds and currents was to sail crooked. [emoji23]

Our first cruise was on the holiday. Not in 1986 though. We loved cruising after that.

The Holiday was my 1st cruise back in 1991 - it was my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary. Such great memories of my family on that cruise.

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Took my first cruise on this nasty old rusty bucket in 1996. We loved it. Have taken 35 since. She looks better now than when Carnival owned her.

Wow! A midnight buffet and 2 opportunities for complimentary rum swizzles!!! :D

That's exactly what I was thinking ... I wish they would bring back both of these:D

I'm just the opposite....I sailed the Holiday back in the spring of 2004, and while I have great memories of New Orleans and sailing down the Mississippi River into the Gulf, the ship itself left me underwhelmed. I think I sailed that size and age ship once more before moving onto the Conquest class.

From your perspective I would agree. When you sailed her she was a 19 year old, very much outdated, very small ship.

From my perspective, I sailed her in 1985 when she was brand new, and believe it or not, when she entered service in 1985, she was the third largest cruise ship. Only the Norway and the QE2 were bigger. After sailing on the Holiday I had no interest at all in sailing on the Mardi Gras, Carnivale, Festivale, or Tropicale, all of which were a lot smaller.

How about a Carnival Capers and a Sail & Sign card from 1986?

 

 

Thanks for posting this stuff! I love looking at the older pictures, capers, etc.

I noticed that the 'gymnasium' was only open for a few hours a day. Do you have pictures from this? I'm sure it was no larger than my family room...

Also I noticed the "P' deck. What exactly was this? Promenade, and they just called it P?

They made it sound as if getting the sign and sail card was not mandatory. Were you able at this time to just pay cash also for your drinks if you didn't want to get the card?

Thanks for posting this stuff! I love looking at the older pictures, capers, etc.

 

I noticed that the 'gymnasium' was only open for a few hours a day. Do you have pictures from this? I'm sure it was no larger than my family room...

 

Also I noticed the "P' deck. What exactly was this? Promenade, and they just called it P?

 

They made it sound as if getting the sign and sail card was not mandatory. Were you able at this time to just pay cash also for your drinks if you didn't want to get the card?

The gym was small, with not that much equipment wise in it. It overlooked the Lido Pool. I do have pics, but the quality is so bad that it's not worth the time to scan them.

"P" Deck was the Promenade.

When I first started cruising everything was paid for in cash. The 1986 cruise was probably the first cruise that I was on that offered the "Sail & Sign" card. The rest as they say is history! :D