plettza Posted February 4, 2019 Wow. Nice snaps. I'm just wondering where I'd mount my 50 cal. These vessels almost have a destroyer design to them 😎 Thank you for sharing. 2 1 Link to comment
philbob84 Posted February 7, 2019 I wish there were more good quality photos of these great ships of this era 1 Link to comment
Aplmac Posted March 14, 2019 As I come across them, I Save them like crazy - they're rare as hen's teeth! 1 Link to comment
Cruiser Jane Posted March 15, 2019 On 2/3/2019 at 10:04 PM, plettza said: Wow. Nice snaps. I'm just wondering where I'd mount my 50 cal. These vessels almost have a destroyer design to them 😎 Thank you for sharing. You are right! And not tall enough to have balcony rooms. I wonder how many passengers on these early ships! Cabins must be very small. Wow, we've "come a long way baby"! 2 Link to comment
schazzy Posted March 15, 2019 I love this album, it really shows how much cruise ships have changed. 1 1 Link to comment
Jim Avery Posted March 15, 2019 Cabins on Carnivale were very comfortable. Food was good too. In fact we were married on Carnivale. Everyone seemed to want to buy us champagne so some parts are a bit fuzzy but definitely pre-Farcus.🍸 1 Link to comment
Ragnar Danneskjold Posted March 15, 2019 Somehow this history of the ship missed that important milestone: https://www.midshipcentury.com/carnivale 1 Link to comment
Jim Avery Posted March 16, 2019 18 hours ago, Ragnar Danneskjold said: Somehow this history of the ship missed that important milestone: https://www.midshipcentury.com/carnivale Haha, I missed a bit of it myself...😳🍸 1 Link to comment
cruise_mojo Posted March 20, 2019 our first carnival cruise was on the Carnivale! 3 nights out of Miami where we overnighted at Nassau our 3rd cruise after two on NCL's Sunward II with their Bahamarama Monday hangover kits they'd hand out when you got off the ship and headed home on Mondays! Link to comment
colorful girl Posted March 20, 2019 Wow! Great pictures! My first carnival cruise was on the Jubilee. 1 Link to comment
Aplmac Posted March 20, 2019 On 3/15/2019 at 5:49 PM, Ragnar Danneskjold said: Somehow this history of the ship missed that important milestone: https://www.midshipcentury.com/carnivale . Many thanks for that interesting history!! Gosh .. so many name changes!! 1 Link to comment
KinCityKitty Posted April 18, 2019 (edited) Honeymoon cruise on Madi Gras July, 1983 to Cozumel, Grand Cayman and Ocho Rios. Many years later, Carnival wouldn't give us credit for the cruise because we didn't have the room key. 🤔 Back then, they used real, brass keys, not plastic cards. Edited April 18, 2019 by KinCityKitty 1 Link to comment
JimnKaren Posted June 9, 2019 My first Carnival was Carnivale. Dining room was low with no windows, lots of dark paneling. That was my first adventure with midnight buffets! Our cabin was large, with fixed beds. Fortunately, there was lots of open floor space!! Jim Link to comment
cruisinsince75 Posted November 12, 2019 Our very first cruise was on the Mardi Gras in 1975. It was 7 days, Miami, Nassau, San Juan, St. Thomas. We had an inside cabin with folding upper berth. The bathroom consisted of a commode with a shower head directly above it. To dry your hair, you had to go down the hallway to a room that was wired to handle it. Two of the shipboard activities, which you couldn’t do today, were skeet shooting and a golf ball driving contest off an aft platform, with a tether line to mark distance as you drove your ball into the sea. The cost was $399 pp and that included airfare from LAX as well as a day room in Miami. At 22, that was not just our first cruise, but our first flight. We are now on our 38th cruise and hope to do our 40th cruise by our 50th anniversary. The ships have gotten bigger, but we still prefer smaller ships, with a bit more luxurious accommodations than we experienced back then. LOL 2 Link to comment
sasset Posted November 14, 2019 Honeymooned on Mardi Gras March 1976. Lucked out and got one of the few double bed cabins. 1 Link to comment
davidjplatt Posted November 15, 2019 (edited) Cruised on the Mardi Gras out of Baltimore in December 1975 for 8 days to Norfolk, VA, San Juan P.R., St. Thomas V.I., St. Croix V.I. and then ending in Nassau with a charter flight back to Baltimore for $399. I was only 24 years old and most of the passengers that got on board in Norfolk, VA were college kids that had just started winter break so I had a good time and back then part of the draw of a cruise was the cheap drinks. But the food was abysmal, the ship was dirty, the service was absolutely horrible and I knew then that Carnival was not a cruise line for me. That was my first and only cruise on Carnival. I guess part of the problem was I had done a 2 week cruise earlier in April 1975 on Royal Carribean's Nordic Prince and it was top notch - RCCL before they lowered their standards to compete head to head with Carnival. When I went on the Nordic Prince RCCL was the reigning World's Best Cruise Line based on their passenger's reviews. Of course, RCCL in the 70's had all of the things cruise passengers expected at the time including nightly midnight buffets and breakfast, lunch and dinner at your assigned table in the dining room every day. Edited November 15, 2019 by davidjplatt Link to comment
zdcatc12 Posted November 17, 2019 Was on the Carnivale in March of 1990. Aplmac, do you remember if Malcolm Kennedy was still the CD when you went in September? I will always remember him as the CD of my first real, i.e. not SeaEscape, cruise. Link to comment
Aplmac Posted January 9, 2020 On 11/16/2019 at 9:28 PM, zdcatc12 said: Was on the Carnivale in March of 1990. Aplmac, do you remember if Malcolm Kennedy was still the CD when you went in September? I'm a rank beginner compared to you! My first cruise was a quick 3-day charter on DESTINY ex Barbados, in May 2007 -decades after you started!! Link to comment
zdcatc12 Posted January 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Aplmac said: I'm a rank beginner compared to you! My first cruise was a quick 3-day charter on DESTINY ex Barbados, in May 2007 -decades after you started!! OK, sorry. I saw your name on the picture credits and I thought that meant that you took them on the date on the picture. 1 Link to comment
nimiq Posted January 9, 2020 OMG !!! I just love old pictures 🙂 Thanks for sharing Sea ya Eric 2 Link to comment
SmoothFlying Posted January 15, 2020 Boy !! I love, LOVE those old pictures (esp the Mari G !!) She was my 'first' !! Yup, I was a cruise 'virgin' wayyyy back in '89. I even looked her up a couple of years ago and see she's called the Magellan now but still hasn't been scheduled for razor blade factory. These pictures bring some GREAT memories ! Mac Link to comment
hawk/hornfan Posted January 16, 2020 I love seeing these pictures. My 1st cruise was on the TSS Festivale in April of 1983 with 1st wife. Cabins were small and bath was smaller. Think small closet size. What a great ship and time. th e wait staff and dining room were over the top. Next cruise was 15 years later on The Big Red Boat with 2nd wife and child. This November will be # 11 with 3rd wife, her 9th, on the Celebrity Reflection on 11 day Southern Caribbean. Link to comment