My first cruise ship.

[JohnSpo]

Mine was Carnival Inspiration in Sept 2003 on a 7 day out of Tampa. I remember the ports were Grand Cayman, Belize, Cozumel and Costa Maya. I was hooked on cruising right away and I have done one cruise a year. I wish I could cruise more often. One of these days I hope to sail on Inspiration again.:cool:

[Shaded Lady]

Carnivale in 1990 out of Port Canaveral.

[KPfromCT]

Ours was the Carnival Sensation in 1996!

Hooked!:)

[emt67]

Carnival Destiny(2012),now known as the Carnival Sunshine.

 

 

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[h_blond2]

My first ship was the Fantasy in 2009.

[twocruiseguys]

Celebration. October 2003.

[jayscore]

The Big Red Boat, 1995 "set the hook" for me!

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[deborahjo]

Carnivale 1979. Wow have things changed.

 

 

Yes they have. How formal things were back then. Made it very enjoyable for us.

 

 

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[mcgore83]

Emerald of the Seas. Admiral Cruise Line. 1988. 4 of us in the room. Large picture window. It was great! Got us hooked on cruising.

[SiraJoy]

Dolphin IV - January 1993. It was a 3-night cruise and the last part of our honeymoon. I remember it was very relaxing, the lobster and croissants were wonderful, and we had a excursion to a lovely private island (Blue Lagoon Island, it was called). It was a great end to our honeymoon. For various reasons, we haven't booked another cruise until now, but we are definitely looking forward to it. It's been so long, it almost feels like another first-time cruise.

[WPTNGirl]

Our first 2 cruises in 1991 and 1992 were on Carnival's first ship the Mardi Gras.

[Jeepenfun]

Wife and I's was just less then a year ago on Carnival Splendor in April of 2016. Just booked another on Glory for April 2018.

[gatour]

Carnivale was my second cruise back in 1982. It was a 7 day Senior Class graduating class cruise with several chaperones. It was most interesting.

 

Kind of interesting how she remained in active service albeit not with Carnival into this century before being sent to the breakers. While other ships of the same vintage succumbed many years previously

 

My actual first cruise was on the NCL Sunward II the year before in 1981.

[AmberMarie]

Rhapsody of the Seas, 2006

 

 

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[Love-to-ride]

First cruise, Grand Princess 2004

First on Carnival, Destiny 2005

[DavidYYC]

1972 - the SA Vaal Cape Town to Durban.

[joeyancho]

1996.... the Holiday. It was old then, but it was amazing to us. Cruising has come a long way from that ship.

[Tapi]

1981 - Cunard Princess

 

First Carnival 1994 - Tropicale

 

 

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[beachbum6264]

1st cruise by , on Flickr

 

This was taken from the deck of the Bahama Star as we were leaving Nassau, heading to Miami for a shopping trip. We used the ships like a ferry. We left the film in Miami with my cousins and they mailed it back to us in Nassau. This is where the pier is built now, the metal roofed building is where you would buy your tickets. The man in the checked shirt waving is my uncle, the woman next to him was his girlfriend. When the cruise ships weren't docked there (the Bahama Star and the Yarmouth Castle were the 2 that sailed from Nassau to Miami) there would be boats from other islands that would come in and dock there to sell fish, conch, and produce. Some were just hollowed out trees with another tree stuck in for a mast - and they would sail from other islands, some as far away as Haiti. It was an interesting and fun place to grow up.

 

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[sprint180]

Boy have things changed Mine was the Elation in 2011.

[Corby114]

May 1983 Royal Caribbean's Song Of America. The ships twenty fourth sailing to the Eastern Caribbean. There were one hundred singles on that weeks sailing. Eighty five woman and fifteen single men. I was never so popular in my entire life. That trip hooked me on cruising. Cruise number 35 coming up on Holland America's Zuiderdam Baltic sailing from Copenhagen in June 2017.

[sjn911]

Summer 1980 Epirotiki Appollon II....Greece, Jerusalem, Cairo, Age 20. Oh my..another time another world. Tiny inside cabin but time of my life that Spring studying in France and traveling that Summer. She was only about 5000 tons and originally an Irish Commuter ship. But we had white glove service in dining room and remember my first caviar. She went down in late 80's I think in a typhoon under another name.

 

 

 

Picture's found on internet search just now...above credit to www.dcchamberlainarchietct.com

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[sjn911]

Summer 1980 Epirotiki Appollon II....Greece, Jerusalem, Cairo, Age 20. Oh my..another time another world. Tiny inside cabin but time of my life that Spring studying in France and traveling that Summer. She was only about 5000 tons and originally an Irish Commuter ship. But we had white glove service in dining room and remember my first caviar. She went down in late 80's I think in a typhoon under another name.

 

 

 

Picture's found on internet search just now...above credit to www.dcchamberlainarchietct.com

 

PS top picture may be Orpheus but similar...slightly larger than Apollon II

 

I just found a main lounge pic,,,,credit to www.ssmaritime.com....I so remember this room.

 

 

Dining room...Thanks to http://www.simplonpc.uk.com

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[ksmcdonald]

Sunward II in 1978

Emerald of the Seas 1985

 

 

 

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[love to read]

Carnival Triumph 1999