Peep.Penguin

I've got paper cards from my cruises from 1995 to 1998. First plastic one was for the Grand Princess in 3/2000, the cards had a photo of the ship on the front thru at least early 2002. On my Sun Princess cruise in May 2003 they were similar to the current cards showing your status level and color. In Oct 2004 I got my Black Elite :)

 

 

 

Someone on Cruise Critic had suggested this years ago, I keep them all in a Business card holder in order and its fun to leaf thru them and remember all the fun times aboard ship.

That's really awesome DougH. I have all mine as refrigerator magnets right now, except for the princess ones I can't find. [emoji53]. I was on the Crown Princess in 2000 for the 10 RT Panama Canal trip and then the Golden Princess in 2003 for a 7 day Eastern Caribbean.

Those ships certainly had the current card system by then.

 

I was on the old Regal (twin of the old Crown) in 1998 and it certainly did.

 

 

 

Now I was also on the Sky Princess in 2000 right before she left the fleet and while the cabin door key was a card I'm pretty sure there was no centralized charging system, so there may have still been a paper card for that (as there was on the old Star Princess a few years earlier, which I believe my parents still have in their boxes of vacation memorabilia). What was most out of date on the gone-and-quite-forgettable Sky Princess was the key locked safe.

Thanks fishywood. I'll have to keep looking. I found my card from my first Royal Caribbean cruise back in 1997, and they had a plastic ship card, so I would assume princess did too.

Also, if anyone has a picture of their princess card from the same time period (early 2000's) I'd love to see it.

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I have no idea but I would assume cards came into use as newer ships arrived in the fleet. Our first cruise in 1993 on an old NCL ship had real keys. Next on the brand new Celebrity Infinity in 2001 had cards. Our first Princess cruise in 2006 on Caribbean Princess and all cruises since had cards.

 

Maybe identify the Princess ships if possible.

 

Terry

Thanks Terry.

I was on the Crown (2000) and Golden (2003).

Are you trying to ascertain your status regarding the Captain's Circle membership or trying to find out when credit card style door locks were fitted on this line?

 

 

 

Regards John

Hi John,

I have my membership number for captains circle, but I've been trying to locate my ship cards for a project I've been working on. Then I realized that princess may not have had cards back then. So I'm just trying to find out if I should be looking for a card or a piece of paper.

I cruised with Princess twice, once in 2000 & once in 2003. Does anyone know if we would have had ship cards or did princess not have those yet? It might help to note that I was under 18 during both voyages.

We were on the Carnival Breeze back in September and did Carnival's Dune Buggy excursion. We had a BLAST. Would definitely do it again.