Things you don’t see anymore

[GUT2407]

Thinking back to our early cruises and things that have gone missing since (Pacific Princess)

 

1. On boarding we were escorted to our cabin (a balcony)

2. A booklet lusting all the passengers

3. Diner was MDR, one specialty restaurant, sea nights only, no ATD, 6:00 or 8:00

4. One night formal night if memory serves, an officer sat with us

 

[lyndarra]

31 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

Thinking back to our early cruises and things that have gone missing since (Pacific Princess)

 

1. On boarding we were escorted to our cabin (a balcony)

2. A booklet lusting all the passengers

3. Diner was MDR, one specialty restaurant, sea nights only, no ATD, 6:00 or 8:00

4. One night formal night if memory serves, an officer sat with us

 

Yep, really miss the lusting.🙄

[MMDown Under]

On my first cruise overseas to London I would get up in time for my daily Greek dance lessons at 11am

ballroom dancing (I won uk tea towel for being first on dance floor)

Streamers and farewell songs - Kiwi best

full size separate bathroom attached to four

berth cabin

cruise line took four single bookings for a four berth cabin

a bigger variety of interesting ports 

longer in port

My first return cruise to London set the benchmark for future cruising

Thanks for the memories GUT2407 - I

feel better already.

 

 

 

[GUT2407]

Never had streamers, did once when we saw family friends off, probably mid 60s

[MMDown Under]

28 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

Never had streamers, did once when we saw family friends off, probably mid 60s

Streamers added to the atmosphere.  My first cruise was the second half of an ATW cruise, so we had streamers and singing in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.  When I did a cruise to the Baltic’s on Fred.olsen, the British passengers sang when we left Copenhagen. The locals came out to see what the noise was all about.

[getting older slowly]

 

The biggie a the moment ... you don't see Cruise Ships

 

Little things   now gone :-

 

Towel Animals

Postcards

Personalized stationary 

Corsage for formal nights

Fresh Flowers in the cabin

 

Not that they were important  

 

We will not talk about Barrel Chairs or Walk around Promenade decks

 

Don

[NSWP]

Years ago Princess always put a great seafood selection in the Horizon Court Buffet Lunch on embarkation day. There was an abundance of prawns, crab etc. Not seen it for several years now.

 

And the Real Bombe Alaska has gone.

 

Being a cognac drinker I was not happy when Princess replaced the VSOP Courvoisior Cognac in the Elite mini bars with the  inferior thus cheaper VS Courvoisior Cognac.  Now that is penny pinching !!

Edited August 23, 2021 by NSWP

[OCruisers]

14 hours ago, GUT2407 said:

Thinking back to our early cruises and things that have gone missing since (Pacific Princess)

 

1. On boarding we were escorted to our cabin (a balcony)

2. A booklet lusting all the passengers

 

 

 

Have NOT seen those two in a VERY long time.  

[NSWP]

2 minutes ago, OCruisers said:

 

Have NOT seen those two in a VERY long time.  

Lusting pax, escort to Cabin....Did you not know Mr and Mrs GUT were on the Titanic? 1st Class of course.😂

 

And the band played on...🎻

Edited August 23, 2021 by NSWP

[GUT2407]

Forgot about the postcards with your ship on and they would stamp as posted from the ship.

[GUT2407]

Actually had a cruise booked in ‘71 with a school group, a few came home with alcohol poisoning, but had to cancel due to other issues. We have been looking at some old Patters etc and it bought back some memories.

 

That 71 cruise was two double bunks and shared bathroom, I think there was something like 10 cabins to the one bathroom.

 

Took me a long time to convince Mrs G to cruise, we went a bit over 18 years without a holiday, between kids, work, and both deciding to do more study, when we did it was Tasmania, gave them a choice, fly down rent a buzzz box, limited luggage but two full weeks in Tasmania, or drive to Melbourne, Spirit if Tas across only 9 or 10 days in Tassie, but take our car the kids could take their tennis rackets more luggage etc. Mrs G got violently sea sick, so I figured there would never be a cruise.

 

A couple of years later saw a cruise, 8 nights to Tasmania in port 5 or 6 days, so if we didn’t like the ship no worries best of all included Port Arthur, Mrs G to my utter shock agreed.

 

By the time we got home we were hooked. Next cruise sailed into the tail end of a cyclone, out of 680+ passengers one night we were the only two in the MDR the Capt said over 400 lined for sea sickness shots, we were both fine and more than just hooked.

[MMDown Under]

54 minutes ago, OCruisers said:

 

Have NOT seen those two in a VERY long time.  

We hAd both on my last cruise

[MMDown Under]

1 minute ago, MMDown Under said:

We hAd both on my last cruise

Not in a balcony unfortunately but the lowest deck where you needed an escort to find your cabin!

 

[MMDown Under]

41 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

Forgot about the postcards with your ship on and they would stamp as posted from the ship.

We got postcards of ship on both cruises from Britain inc last one

[MMDown Under]

1 hour ago, NSWP said:

Years ago Princess always put a great seafood selection in the Horizon Court Buffet Lunch on embarkation day. There was an abundance of prawns, crab etc. Not seen it for several years now.

 

And the Real Bombe Alaska has gone.

 

Being a cognac drinker I was not happy when Princess replaced the VSOP Courvoisior Cognac in the Elite mini bars with the  inferior thus cheaper VS Courvoisior Cognac.  Now that is penny pinching !!

I miss the real bombe Alaska parade.

[MMDown Under]

Has anyone mentioned the fruit and ice carvings?

 

plus midnight supper?

 

[MMDown Under]

1 hour ago, getting older slowly said:

 

The biggie a the moment ... you don't see Cruise Ships

 

Little things   now gone :-

 

Towel Animals

Postcards

Personalized stationary 

Corsage for formal nights

Fresh Flowers in the cabin

 

Not that they were important  

 

We will not talk about Barrel Chairs or Walk around Promenade decks

 

Don

Yes no cruise ships is the biggie!!

 

the little things you mentioned were what made cruising special 

[GUT2407]

Caviar on your prawn cocktail. 5 course dinner

[NSWP]

2 hours ago, GUT2407 said:

Caviar on your prawn cocktail. 5 course dinner

What a waste of a good prawn cocktail., caviar yuk.  On the Princess ships I often had a double shrimp cocktail with that great Princess cocktail sauce, lubbly jubbly.  I made sure I took my Alluprinol Gout tablets, still take them every day, too much uric acid.

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by NSWP

[OzKiwiJJ]

We did our first cruise, on Sun Princess, over Christmas 2014. We loved the relaxed four course evening meals. The courses were clearly divided on the menu - appetiser, soup or salad, main, dessert. Of course there was only traditional dining on that cruise.

 

It wasn't long before they changed the menu format to one which subtly encouraged a less leisurely three course meal by combining the appetisers in with the soups and salads. The number of menu items reduced slightly about then, then reduced again around 2018. 

 

I wonder what it will be like if cruising ever recommences here.

[Rassa]

Has anyone said the sheet that was the newspaper for your country - haven't seen that in a while.   I guess when cruises start we won't see donated books for cruises to take from the Library.

[gbenjo]

Lobster on the menu but not paying extra for it. Plus a second/third etc serving.

Edited August 24, 2021 by gbenjo

[By The Bay]

1 hour ago, Rassa said:

Has anyone said the sheet that was the newspaper for your country - haven't seen that in a while.   I guess when cruises start we won't see donated books for cruises to take from the Library.

P&O Oz was still doing that on our last cruise in Jan 2020. That was so long ago.😡😷

[rabbitoh_777]

People engaged in "The lost art" of true eyeballs meet eyeballs in conversation, without some twits having their heads buried in electronic devices...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1y37vnThQ

[Rassa]

15 minutes ago, By The Bay said:

P&O Oz was still doing that on our last cruise in Jan 2020. That was so long ago.😡😷

It was not on our last princess cruises but good you can get it on P&O.

 

I also remember in about 2007 we were on NCL doing Hawaii and about 10 pm they had a chocolate night (different to Midnight supper).   Everything was chocolate based and I enjoyed it but doubt I would go to one now and they haven't been on the last NCL cruises we have done.