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About snaebyllej
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Cool Cruiser
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Edina, MN, USA
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Ships, travel, historic houses, trains, playing tennis, reading science fiction & mysteries.
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Favorite Cruise Line(s)
Holland America, Princess
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Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
Transatlantic
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Hot of the press! I see no cruising until 2022
snaebyllej replied to Greg4502's topic in Royal Caribbean International
All of the major U.S. legacy airlines went through bankruptcy not too many years ago, and they're still flying. Bankruptcy just allows them to shed debts. Of course the cruise lines aren't all U.S. companies, so I don't know how it would work for them. I'm rather surprised that it hasn't already been tried by at least some of them. -
Who remembers strolling musicians in dining room?
snaebyllej replied to jsf's topic in Royal Caribbean International
I know we had them on the Mardi Gras in '83 and the Song of America in '84. -
View of Cruise Ships from Mt Roberts, Juneau
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Great Cruising Memories
snaebyllej replied to rkacruiser's topic in What Ever Happened To........???
We went Tourist Class on the Raffaello, and I'll never forget the Italian guy who thought that a tank top style undershirt was appropriate attire for the dining room. -
Great Cruising Memories
snaebyllej replied to rkacruiser's topic in What Ever Happened To........???
In Tourist Class or Cabin Class on a classic liner? I doubt very many of the passengers owned a tuxedo. -
'88 Transatlantic on Navigator of the Seas
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SOA had the first wrap-around lounge, and it was the first where they let an eventual purchaser keep it.
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Ships we've sailed that no longer exist.
snaebyllej replied to mek's topic in What Ever Happened To........???
With year first sailed on them: 1969: SS France 1969: SS Nieuw Amsterdam (II) 1974: MS Mikhail Lermontov 1974: SS Raffaello 1981: SS Emerald Seas 1981: MV Adzhariya 1983: SS Mardi Gras 1984: MS Mikhail Kalinen 1984: MS Nieuw Amsterdam (III) 1987: MS The Victoria 1988: SS Regent Sun 1994: SS Pacific Princess 1999: SS Island Breeze Also Queen Elizabeth 2 (1986); not exactly gone but not sailing any more. Also a couple of little ones, which are hard to find info on: HS Tut (1981, Sheraton Nile Cruises), MV Santa Cruz (2006, Metropolitan -
Interesting to think about, but kind of sad, too; I hadn't realized that the Marella Spirit (Nieuw Amsterdam III) had been scrapped. With the current situation, can't help but think that others will follow. Ones that I can think of, with first year I sailed on them: 1984: Song of America -> Celestyal Olympia 1985: Noordam -> Marella Celibration (?) 1991: Royal Princess -> Artania 1992: Royal Majesty -> Crown Iris 1996: Norwegian Crown -> Balmoral 1999: Norwegian Sea -> SuperStar Libra 1999: R Three -> Pacific Princess 2000: Crown Prin
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Majesty: Will Cuba cruises save her?
snaebyllej replied to gkbiiii's topic in Royal Caribbean International
On the ship they said that she turned out to be in much worse condition than expected when they got her back. -
Is there one ship you'd love to cruise on?
snaebyllej replied to sprint180's topic in Ask a Cruise Question
Marco Polo. Sailed transatlantic on her sister Mikhail Lermontov back in 1974, in rather more primitive conditions (hopefully). Shared facilities, and the East Germans seemingly didn't know how to make proper plumbing. Pretty much any classic ship; every time one is scrapped I'm mad at myself for not trying harder to go on it.