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On this last cruise, I came down with a severe URI and had to stay in bed for 2 days. The crew couldn't have been more wonderful looking after me and making sure I had everything I wanted. I feel "safe" when I travel alone on HAL ships.
I have a press trip planned on the Freedom of the Seas, and then after I will be working for Carnival (starting on the Triumph) this June.
quote:Patsy wrote:None - yet! Should have my foot on the ladder in October and can't wait!
Patsy, I'm only slightly better than you having done one cruise so far. Though technically speaking, I have been on liners four times before that. Young kids have precluded me from cruising yearly since that first cruise in 2002, but as soon as they are old enough I'm hitting the ocean again (with my wife of course).
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I have done around 20? with only one vessel having been repeated.
Pam
quote:Originally posted by Gerry:Between 400- 600 but does working on the ships count?
My cruise count is also between 500-600 cruises, but most of them from working on board. As a fare-paying passenger, about 120 cruises on 90+ ships.
Rich
quote:Originally posted by PamM: [...] I would also perhaps add those passages of a duration longer than 2 nights, and not 'cruises' to nowhere.. but others would argue on that I expect.[...]
This is where it is getting difficult: What is a cruise? I did not include all these one or two night short 'cruises" on ferries - altough already comparabe to a short cruise in some cases. Also, how do you count long cruises which are also sold in segments? Is a world cruise one or several cruises? Or do several cruises in a row on one ship count as one? (...correcting the number Gerry posted... )What about crossings - some her would insist that a crossing on the QE2 or even QM2 it is not a cruise - or cargo ships? Is the Hurtigruten journey a cruise?
quote:Originally posted by mec1:I have counted crossings, anything longer than three nights on a PROPER ship, not a ferry and I only counted my World Cruise as one.
Sounds reasonable (I did the same - I just do not yet have a world cruise to be considered ) - I guess we should stay with this "rule" and enjoy the endless discussion on the exceptions.
quote:Originally posted by Linerrich:It also gets complicated counting the number of ships--for example I've sailed on STATENDAM, RHAPSODY and REGENT STAR: same vessel, 3 different names and owners. Does that count as 1 ship or 3? Also been on dozens of ships having 2 names: ROTTERDAM & REMBRANDT, ROYALE & SEABREEZE, etc.Rich
A ship stays the same ship even if the name is changed. I would say it counts as one ship. (Following this line one could count nearly every ship several times as ships are constantly rebuilt and modified)
Gordon
quote:Originally posted by BigUFan:A regrettably pathetic 4. That's what happens in a single-income household.
But Rick Santorum and the like think wives should stay at home.
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No air conditioning though, a bit sticky.
But strangely enough. fun!
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