Home Lines employees/memories?

[crusinsue]

Hi Sue thanks so much for your good wishes I sure will let you know I was on the Caribbean Princess last year and I loved it (not as much as I loved Home Lines) If I get the chance I will e mail you from the ship I have free internet service. Talk to you soon Sue

[NONNIE58]

hi girls, how are you all?? isn't it a little mysterious how the oceanic keeps sailing? even though she has already been sold to several different cruise lines:) and while they were towing the doric to be scrapped, she broke away from her tow and sank, which really doesn't sound too consoling:( but, if you look at it from a different perspective, she still lives on, even though she is at the bottom of the sea, the sea is the place where she brought so much joy, happy memories, romantic memories;)the oceanic sails on!!! and the doric lies sleeping at the bottom of the

ocean:) for those of you who are 45 years+:rolleyes: it reminds me of the song

"Love is kinda of spooky, with a spooky little girl like you" by the CLASSICS FOUR.:D

CIAO LADIES

TAKE CARE

NONNIE 58

[CroozinFamily]

Was at my mother's today looking through old photos. Found some from Home Lines cruises. Pictures of some waiters and cabin stewards whose names I can't remember. Quite a few pictures of my waiter Carmine from my first cruise. And also pictures of Dino Vecchio, who has been discussed on this forum by many who knew him well.

 

Lots of pictures of waiters, cabins stewards and the like whose names I have no clue.

 

Was nice strolling down memory lane!

[crusinsue]

:)hello everyone hope all is well had a really great time on the caribbean princess sueseq when are you booked in july of 2010 i booked again on board for the last caribbean cruise july 29 hope it is the same one best to all take care sue

[SueseaQ]

:)hello everyone hope all is well had a really great time on the caribbean princess sueseq when are you booked in july of 2010 i booked again on board for the last caribbean cruise july 29 hope it is the same one best to all take care sue

 

So glad to hear you had such a wonderful time. I'm booked for July 11. OOOOHHH, can you change your date????

[crusinsue]

What a shame you wont be there when im there and vice versa i cant change that is the only time in july that i can take my super always take that week in july actually from the 4th on what an awesome adventure to meet you in person two home line sister on the princess. Talk to you soon. Take care sue:)

[NONNIE58]

hello ladies:)

does anyone remember waiter vincenzo santalucia, fireman giuseppe messina, and room steward pedro hernandez????:rolleyes:

 

 

keep sailing

nonnie58

[SueseaQ]

How have you been Nonnie? Here we go again with the waiter, Vincenzo...LOL. I never knew the last name of the Vincenzo I met on my first cruise, just kind of hung out and went dancing with him a couple of times at Disco 40. My "more involved" relationship was with a waiter named Sergio, who I met on my second cruise.....but what a cad he turned out to be..... I don't recognize either of the other 2 guys you mentioned, though.

Hi crusinsue, that's too bad, it would have really been awsome to actually meet another Home Lines girl, where else but on a cruise....Oh well maybe someday. Sandytoes is on the cruise on July 11, did you meet her on the cruise you were just on? I know she was on that same sailing.

[NONNIE58]

hi sue, it so nice to hear from you again!!! i wish i had known "sandy toes" was on the same cruise, i would have loved to meet her, love her name too:D we probably would have talked about home lines through the whole cruise, Lord knows there would have been plenty to say;) i know that name vincenzo has staying power at least for me!! I'm reading a book (not a new one) by an Geraldine Saunders, called THE LOVE BOATS, i kind of just started it, but, it does take me back to home lines days,:cool: it's about her adventures on a cruise ship when she worked as a cruise director, it's a true story.

 

hope all is well with you and your family

home lines 4-ever

take care

nonnie58

[cruisin'since'75]

I'm reading a book (not a new one) by an Geraldine Saunders, called THE LOVE BOATS, i kind of just started it, but, it does take me back to home lines days,:cool: it's about her adventures on a cruise ship when she worked as a cruise director, it's a true story.

 

 

You are reading the book the television series "The Love Boat" was based on! Have fun with it. It may be and older book, but ya know, the stories are still the same after all these years! :)

[NONNIE58]

hi cruisin since 75, how are you? yes, you are correct that book The Love Boats, is what the tv show the Love Boat was based on. I miss those days of cruising:( If all the home lines girls got together and told their stories, i bet we would have enough material for a book, we would have to change our names:rolleyes: but, what a book that would be!!!!!!!!:D

 

take care ladies

nonnie58

[cruisin'since'75]

Ha! We'd make millions! I honestly believe that we would have a best seller on our hands. Think of it! Sneaking on and off "crew deck" in every way imaginable; up on the bridge, down in the engine room, everywhere we got to visit and "do things" that other passengers didn't have a clue about. It was so very cool to be us, wasn't it? I just LOVED being on the ship w/my crew guy after all the passengers had disembarked and before the hoards of the new week's passengers would board around 1 pm. It was quite delicious to live for a little bit each week like such a diva!

 

We were the originals, Ms. Nonnie58, and frankly its not anything I ever want to forget or deny. I'm going to use my own great name in this book we write, ladies, and be damned proud of it and all that it ever stood for, and which so many remember quite fondly, I would imagine. How about you all?

[CroozinFamily]

Imagine if THE CREW wrote a book!!!!!! Now, there would be some stories!!!

[NONNIE58]

hello ladies

 

Let's do it girls, maybe it's not that far fetched in the idea department:D

we "the homelines girls" were part of a special era, that i think even the younger girls of today would raise an eyebrow to;) if you were a young, single girl in the 1970's and early to mid 1980's and you stepped aboard a homelines cruise ship, this experience, was a better high than any drug that was ever invented could give to you:rolleyes: the memories lasted a lifetime!!!:)

 

to the CRUZIN FAMILY i totally agree, those crew members, would be the envy of every male in the universe if they wrote about their "romantic adventures" aboard those ships

 

p.s. i'm not a druggie, just trying to prove my point!!

 

take care ladies

nonnie58

[crusinsue]

HI TO MY HOME LINE SISTERS I AGREE WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU LADIES IT WAS SO MUCH FUN SNEAKING AROUND THAT CRUISE SHIP WE USE TO HIDE ALOT OF OUR CREW GUYS UNDER OUR BEDS CAN YOU IMAGINE I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW THEY CONTUNUED TO BREATH AND WHEN DOCKING IN BERMUDA WAITING OUTSIDE IN THE TERMINAL FOR THEM TO GET DONE WORK AND GOING TO 40 THIEVES AND THE CLUB LITTLE ITALY EVERYTIME I TALK ABT IT I GET CHILLS I WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE TIMES IN MY LIFE. TAKE CARE SUE:o

[SueseaQ]

Oh my goodness, the sneaking around!!!!!!! It was soooooo exciting back then, and I, too, still get chills and that exciting feeling in the pit of my stomach when I think about it. I'll never forget the look on the faces of a middle aged couple as they saw me emerge from a door marked "CREW ONLY" at about 3 AM !!!!! I just about died, I was so embarrased :o:eek:;):D!!!!!

I think we all need to go on a cruise together to put together all our stories for our book, which of course, would one day become a screen play, and then a smash hit movie!!!!!!:D

Unfortunately, I don't think many of the "guys" would ever write a book, and if they did, they would have to change their names to protect the innocent and of course themselves. ;)...LOL!!!!

[CroozinFamily]

3am? You called it an early night! LOL! Yes....I can only imagine what they were thinking....our hair a mess, shoes in hand, make-up likely a little smudged.

 

I worked on a cruise ship for a few months in 84.....one story I'll never forget was that it was time for everyone to get off the ship and after everyone was pretty much off, there was this guy hanging around who didn't seem to want to get off the ship. We finally told him he needed to leave......he said he couldn't because he couldn't find his daughter. We discovered that his daughter was 16. He hadn't seen her since 10pm the night before when he left her talking to one of the bartenders in a certain lounge. We cringed when we heard that because we knew his reputation with the ladies. Well, the Staff Captain went to talk to him and he said he finished up with her about 1am and the last he knew she was with so and so. Well, 4 guys later, they finally found her! You should have seen what she looked like when she emerged. The father was MORTIFIED! Now....why in the world he didn't say anything is beyond me! He last saw her at 10pm and it was NOON the next day before he finally said something to the officers....and only because we were trying to get him to leave the ship!

 

The Cruise Director on our ship could have written a entire book on his experiences just in the 2 months of activity that I saw going in and out of his office/cabin.

[cruisin'since'75]

3am? You called it an early night! LOL!

 

Traveling with the Aunt & Uncle of one of my friends who was also my roommate, I ran into the relatives coming back from their lucky night in the casino and one of my lucky nights on crew deck! They were asking all kinds of questions about where did that door I came through lead to? Did I notice it said "Crew Only"? Is there a bar or "a disco" they had missed all week? I mumbled something brilliant about it "just being downstairs, below sea level, and I guess I fell asleep " and they thought that was hysterically funny. Then they asked if they took the ship tour tomorrow (you know, that one the last day at sea where some newbie sailor brings you through the kitchen and up to the bridge to gawk at the officers and crew), if they'd get to go "downstairs" as well. I said something about that being the "Unauthorized" ship tour, and then we parted ways.

 

Good thing it was the last day of the cruise, 'cause everytime I left the group, even just to go to the bathroom, for heaven's sake, all my cruise mates would ask if I was going on an "Unauthorized" tour of the ship, or pehaps going to take a nap? All day. It was so sad. Nothing else to talk about besides my middle-of-the night antics! Oh well, my goal in life has always been "let's giv'em something to talk about", and I guess I always have. Too bad I didn't have you nice ladies way back then to back me up. We really would have given them something to talk about, heh?

 

Ya know, perhaps we could really collaborate on a book about all of this. I've already had one book published, back in 2000, so I kind of have the idea of what all this publishing stuff might be about, vaguely. All of us sailing together out of NYC to anywhere for a week could be a good way to pull it together so that it might become a reality.

 

I hope this plan works better than the reunion idea, which kind of fizzled after a bit. Somebody has to be made the "in-charge" person, otherwise we just keep tossing the thought around and around and nothing happens. Any volunteers to head up the project to produce the next Pulitzer Prize in Literature?

Edited September 10, 2009 by cruisin'since'75

[NONNIE58]

hello home lines ladies:D

 

cruisin since 75, you are correct, i would love to do that, but, only we, the home lines girls, have the power to make that happen, we have to make a plan, and since you already published a book, you can give us some good pointers, i would love to organize a cruise, but, would it be ok to take your hubby if you wanted too:cool:???, we should plan the cruise now, because how can we get everyone together? that in itself will probably take close to a year, people have to get ready financially, ask for the time off from work, i'm so excited just thinking about it:D i always told my cruise mates, our cruises would make a good movie, imagine all our stories combined.:rolleyes:

 

WARNER BROTHERS HERE WE COME!!!!!!

 

TAKE CARE LADIES

NONNIE58

[CroozinFamily]

Taking the hubby along? How would that work? "hey, honey, would you like to come on a cruise with me and a bunch of other girls while we reminisce about our sexcapades on the Home Lines ships?" LOL!

[SueseaQ]

taking the hubby along? How would that work? "hey, honey, would you like to come on a cruise with me and a bunch of other girls while we reminisce about our sexcapades on the home lines ships?" lol!

 

roflmao!!!!!!:d:d:d

 

 

Well, I'm going on the Caribbean Princess for a 9 day on July 11, 2010.....anybody else available for that cruise!

Edited September 12, 2009 by SueseaQ

[NONNIE58]

I was serious, because, we don't have the type of a relationship, where we go our separate ways, i'm not trying to be obnoxious:( of course, he would be in the casino,or elsewhere, while we talked about our "romantic adventures" aboard the homelines ships, where there's a will there's a way!! that was the past;) if that's a problem, i'll have to find another way to get together with you girls, if that's ok? i'd still like to be involved

 

take care

nonnie58:)

[SueseaQ]

Hi Nonnie, I'm really sorry. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings, it was just the way cruzinfamily worded her comment that just struck me very funny . I definitely respect your feelings about your relationship with your hubby. I would have to be the last person to criticize anybody, speaking as a divorced person. Again, so sorry........:o.

[cruisin'since'75]

The way I feel about it, one of the greatest charms of a cruise is that you can get a whole bunch of friends, family, kids, husbands, wives, whatever, all together in the same place and at the same time, and STILL do all the things you want to do individually, as part of a group, with just a few friends, or be alone. It is the best way to travel with "mixed groups", and if anybody's travel companions wanna sit around and listen to our tales, well, then, as long as you don't mind, then who am I to even care? The more the merrier. We could probably use a few good critics; to kinda filter out a lot of the stuff that we're just dying to talk about because its special to us, but that other, "non-Home Lines people" would consider just plain boring or ridiculous to mention!

 

I'm betting most guys might want to hear what all the "talk, talk, talk" is about, but then I'm guessing they'll get really "bored, bored, bored" and find something else to amuse themselves during the times we Home Lines girls are strolling down the Oceanic Memory Lane, so to speak. They may have a few questions later on, but mostly I'm guessing they'll wait for the best seller to get published and get themselves a signed copy of the book!

 

I'm hoping to make some new friends from within the crowd that my Home Lines ladies tote along with them on this "brainstorming" adventure at sea!

 

I'm sailing on the Emerald Princess January 10, 2010, for my friend's 60th Birthday. She's a Home Lines alumni, and we're traveling with 12 other people, I believe most of whom are former Home Liners, ladies and gents both, and having them along could be a good thing. Might any of you be available that winter week after the Holiday rush? Out of FLL, 7-days, last day of the cruise at sea, balcony cabin $849 plus tax, port taxes, etc. I've never sailed Princess but I'm looking very forward to the adventure! C'mon along...

[SueseaQ]

How true, How true. Heck I even went on a cruise myself, once, my second ever cruise,.....on the Atlantic NYto Bermuda...met some other single ladies at the dinner table . I was able to give them fair warning :D of what their lives would be like for the next week and, naturally, was proven right!;););)

I wish I could book that winter cruise, but after being out of full time work for a year and a half, I consider myself very lucky to be booked for July 2010 on the Caribbean Princess, no way would I be able to swing 2 cruises. And thank goodness I got a full time job a month ago.

I think you're going to like Princess. I sailed on the Crown in 2006 and enjoyed it more than my cruises on Celebrity. You might be interested to know that many of those "in charge" are Italian and I've read somewhere on these boards that some former Home Lines employees now work on Princess, so ya never know "who" you might run into while on your Princess cruise!