What Cruise got you hooked ???

[Magnum60]

'What Cruise got you hooked ???'

 

 

Actually it wasn't a cruise that set the hook. I'd figured out that swimming across any large body of water was hopeless and that it made much better sense to go by ship.

Putting funny aside, there is magic in traveling by ship that beckons you to return time after time. Call it an adventure addiction. Standing at the rail (in a low traffic location of your ship) with your partner while being humbled by the size of nature's vastness is the call I respond to. All your senses rejuvenate and the world becomes a softer place.

Wonderful accommodations, new ports of call, sharing time with fellow travelers, fine food and the multitude of attractions found on cruise ships frost the cake but it's being surrounded by the ocean that keeps me coming back for more.

[love2cruiseforfree]

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[Senoj84]

My 1st cruise, 2007 in Carnival. I sailed to Cozumel and Panama.

[cruzincurt]

4 day cruise 1996 from Port Canaveral on the Fantasy. I can still remember our first look up at the ship from the parking lot, wow, what a big ship (then).

 

Lots of water under our keel since then.

[True Texan]

2008 Carnival Conquest. It is an addiction I can't break.

[navybankerteacher]

Fall 1996 - Orient Lines' Marco Polo (she's still sailing for another line): from Istanbul (after a three day stay), Kanakalle - for the ruins of Troy; Kusadasi - for Ephesus; Santorini; Mykonos; Crete; Rhodes; then Athens (for a three day stay). The most dramatic, port-intensive cruise I ever had --- with an amazing group at our dinner table.

[jocap]

Fall 1996 - Orient Lines' Marco Polo (she's still sailing for another line): from Istanbul (after a three day stay), Kanakalle - for the ruins of Troy; Kusadasi - for Ephesus; Santorini; Mykonos; Crete; Rhodes; then Athens (for a three day stay). The most dramatic, port-intensive cruise I ever had --- with an amazing group at our dinner table.

Have you seen the "Mighty Cruise Ships" series on TV? The Marco Polo appears on one of those, still going strong- in fact, we're considering a cruise on her out of Newcastle next summer. I wonder how you'd rate the experience after years of sailing with the modern ships.

[preschool teacher]

Year...a while back....Holland America SS Veendam out of Tampa to the Caribbean..... Had a balcony and just loved it....

[billfish]

Our first cruise was on the Big Red Boat ( Majestic } back in 1991. I went kicking and screaming and the day we got back home I booked another cruise. Wish that cruising today would half as wonderful as it was back then. It is still somewhat of a value but not what it used to be.

[navybankerteacher]

Have you seen the "Mighty Cruise Ships" series on TV? The Marco Polo appears on one of those, still going strong- in fact, we're considering a cruise on her out of Newcastle next summer. I wonder how you'd rate the experience after years of sailing with the modern ships.

 

Great, unique itineraries to ports rarely visited by the mega-ships. I liked her small passenger load - I do not need casino of show rooms, and they still seem to have fairly formal dress code - I'd bet they have a very different demographic from NCL, RCI, etc. for the right British Isles itinerary, I think I will sail her again.

[Cruises4Evee]

First cruise was a 7 night voyage to Bermuda on Celebrity's Meridian out of Philadelphia. Amazing time!!! Definitely got me hooked!!! Ended up booking the same itinerary the minute I stepped off the ship!! Cruised with her 3 times in 15 months :)

[Capt_BJ]

My first cruise experience ... and I keep comin back ....

 

Cadet 1974 at the top of the main mast CGC EAGLE

 

 

[harleysmama]

1975 Rccl Song of Norway to the Caribbean

[Sea Hag]

The first one, of course. :)

[Bases5]

1981. NCL Skyward

[terri-eddie]

My husband and I cruised for the first time in 2009 on the Carnival Liberty. We booked the cruise mainly to satisfy a long-time fantasy, having both grown up watching The Love Boat!

 

We found cruising to be nothing like the show, but enjoyed it nonetheless. We went home thinking there, we've done it, end of story.

 

Until...a few months later, we both realized we wanted to do it again! Since then, we've cruised a total of 6 times, with our seventh cruise booked for Dec 2016. I think we can safely say...we're hooked on cruising!

[paul929207]

We got hooked on our second cruise. Our first was in 1987 to the southern Caribbean. It was nice and we figured we would cruise again some day. It took six years until our second cruise.

The second was a 10 day Alaska cruise, r/t San Francisco. It was on Princess and we loved it. Before we finished the cruise we ha already planned out next cruise. Since then we have taken 37 Princess cruises for 589 days.

[Jose Tejas]

Troop ship, 1959, Brooklyn to Bremerhaven - still love those sea days!

[cruisemom42]

I was very fortunate to go on many cruises with my parents at a young age, but, the one that always sticks out is the Christmas cruise on the QE2 circa 1971.

 

Jonathan

 

Like you, I started cruising young as part of a family that enjoyed travel and cruising. I'm not sure if my first cruise in 1972 on the Emerald Seas (also a Christmas cruise) really did the trick -- but my second cruise the following year, on Sitmar's Fairwind definitely hooked me.

 

We cruised many times on that line before they became part of Princess, and we loved it. The food, the Italian crews that catered to kids, the fun of all the activities (that most would probably consider hokey by today's standards...) -- all of it was a lot of FUN!

[cruiserssandr]

Our first cruise was on Norwegian Majesty in May 2002. Boston to Bermuda. It was then that we were hooked!

[Got2Cruise]

Our first cruise was on a brand new amazing ship Enchantment of the Seas 18 years ago. What was new then is now considered old and outdated. They even retrofitted her and stretched her out. To us she was the perfect size. We love the complete no thinking or working for a week.

[obnurse]

Golden Princess 02/02/02 to celebrate our 25th anniversary. We were hooked!

[love2cruiseforfree]

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[pjules]

NCL Sun in 2003. It was my first cruise. I liked their freestyle concept.

 

 

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[janetz]

Celebrity Century 2001 :D