When was your first Royal cruise?

[CruisingJoe09]

Jewel of the Seas in 2009 to the Baltic. Celebrating 10 years of cruising this year! :)

 

Jewel was a great first ship. We loved the itinerary as well. She didn't necessarily feel big as such but we knew from then that we loved cruising. Independence was our next ship and she really got us hooked.

[lorimay]

1989 Nordic Prince, NYC to Bermuda. It was our honeymoon. This year we celebrate 30 years!

[GXmanDC]

January 2008 on Liberty of the Seas. We visited Grand Turk, St. Thomas, and Labadee.  My friends and significant other dragged me aboard because "I wasn't a cruise person."  We've been back at least once every winter since. 

 

[John&LaLa]

1 hour ago, ONECRUISER said:

1988 on the brand new Sovereign of the Seas, first "Megaship". For 8yrs she and her Sisters were Largest Cruise ship in the world. Was hooked...

 

I thought Norway was temporarily bigger than Sovereign. 🤔

[John&LaLa]

2002 Nordic Empress.  Wasn't impressed. Mariner 2008 changed all that. 

[ZoeyVictoria]

Enchantment, May 2004, in between chemo treatments for my late husband.  He said it was the best vacation he ever had, and we booked another one just a week after returning home.  Sadly, he did not live long enough to take the second one.

[Wolffie89]

1 minute ago, ZoeyVictoria said:

Enchantment, May 2004, in between chemo treatments for my late husband.  He said it was the best vacation he ever had, and we booked another one just a week after returning home.  Sadly, he did not live long enough to take the second one.

😢😭

[sandebeach]

Our first Royal cruise was 1993 on the Nordic Empress. We splurged on an  oceanview cabin. It had a large round porthole, and you could sit on the bottom ledge, like a window seat. I felt like a princess! And I still get exhilarated every time I board a cruise ship!

[Tapi]

1993

Monarch of the Seas 

San Juan - Barbados - Martinique - Antigua - St Maarten - St Thomas - San Juan

 

[The sea calls my name]

Sovereign of The Seas. June 1990. We have a  numbered limited Lithograph of that beautiful ship hanging in our study.  It was, at the time, the largest cruise ship in the industry. Hard to imagine that now. 

[Ashland]

Our addiction with RCI started in July 1994 on Viking Serenade....but in reality we actually started sampling on Azure of the Seas in 1984 & 1985.

[ONECRUISER]

1 hour ago, John&LaLa said:

 

I thought Norway was temporarily bigger than Sovereign. 🤔

Yes, but no. Ocean liner vs Cruise Ship... But think my first Cruise was Sovereign #022. Numbers they use to give each sailing from when first Launched

Edited February 18, 2019 by ONECRUISER

[Cruiser24]

August 1987 Nordic Prince to Bermuda.  Our 10th anniversary.

[nashirak]

Man, I’m a young buck. All these people’s first cruises in the 80’s and 90’s. Our first cruise was 2014 on the Nav out of Galveston. 

[Joelster123]

Legend Of The Seas, Sydney to Singapore in 2015

[LBumb]

I too get still so excited stepping on every ship. 

[dbancroft]

1979 40 years ago this year on the Song of Norway we sailed thru and around 2 hurricanes David and Frederick. Still coming back for more. Will celebrate our 40 years of cruising 3 times this year.

[OACAggie]

Enchantment in 1999 for our honeymoon. Was supposed to be Eastern Caribbean, but was diverted to Western due to hurricane Lenny. 

 

We got back to Port Miami the day Voyager was heading out on her maiden voyage and I remember thinking how “huge” that ship was!

[springfire]

The Nordic Prince was my first Royal Caribbean ship, way back in 1981.   I was a Norwegian deckhand and spent 6 months working on that ship.   The Nordic Prince was doing two week cruises out of Miami at that time.   My first trip as a paying customer was in 1997 on the Majesty of the Seas.

[rncruiser]

My first Royal Caribbean cruise was January 1984 on Song of Norway. I was singkenthen and cruised with my best friend. We both got married a few years later and now we still cruise together but we bring our husbands along with us. 

[George C]

2 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

I thought Norway was temporarily bigger than Sovereign. 🤔

My first cruise on rccl was either 1988 of 1989 not sure but did get engaged on sovereign in 1990 and honeymooned on SS Norway in 1991, Norway had added a deck so its gross weight was more than sovereign, loved both ships , we had a mini suite on the added deck for our honeymoon. 

[cruz_happy]

Nordic Prince in 1971.  I was a teenager and traveled with my parents on a 2-week cruise to Caribbean.  It was a gamble as I don’t know what they would have done if I hated it.  But I’m still cruising all these years later.  So they got me hooked.  

[Sancho_proudfoot]

Independence, May 2008. She had only done the tiddly 4 day flip to Ireland, so we were on her first proper ocean going cruise to the Canaries. Everything on board was sparkling and new!

[sellwingri]

Navigator 2004.  We had been sailing on Princess but after a not so wonderful cruise on Grand Princess, thought we’d try RCI where we’ve been ever since (with a couple of exceptions.)

[cynt]

When Voyager was the latest and greatest "mega" ship - March 2001.