Let's see your photos of the classic Carnival ships!

I'd love to see any photos you have of the Festivale, Carnivale, Tropicale, Mardi Gras, Holiday, Jubilee, and Celebration. I never sailed on these ships but have heard they were very nice for their day. I've noticed that many of you sailed on these ships back then, and would love to see what they looked like!

Ditto. Would love to see any photos of the classic ships.

Love the ships from the early years of Carnival. On those ships you knew you were on ship and not a floating hotel. It was a completely different experience than what you have today. I loved the way it was.

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The bridge tour of the Festivale in 1984

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The bridge tour of the Festivale in 1984

 

 

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That is great!

I found this USA Today slideshow as well, showing the beautiful interiors of the Mardi Gras: https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/cruises/2014/09/15/cruise-ship-tour-the-early-icons-of-the-carnival-fleet/13892623/

 

The bridge tour of the Festivale in 1984

 

 

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Following, great thread and great pix!

Loved to see the pics of the Mardi Gras. We sailed on her twice in 1992 and 93 as our first 2 cruises. The restored wood everywhere around the ship was beautiful and we loved the ship. It made me go back and look at my pictures again and hunt out the video. Our cabin did not look like the ones they pictured. Ours were inside cabins and very small but we thought all cabins were that small with the shower over the commode!! We also sailed on the Holiday and still remember it as one of our favorites.

Festivale (June 1992)

Docked in St. Thomas (June 15, 1992)

Docked in Barbados (June 18, 1992)

MDR

Our cabin (porthole)

Lido Deck/Pool area and the funnel (June 20, 1992 - our sea day)

View from Lido Deck towards the deck above it from the pool area

Wish I had more, but I didn't get many ship pictures and only a few interior pictures on that cruise since I only had the film camera then. I also have a few copies of the "Carnival Capers" (now called "Fun Times") from that cruise as well.

Fun thread! I'll have to go see if I can dig up any pics when I sailed the Holiday in 1989.

Here are some Mardi Gras photos from August 1989, my first cruise :).

Bridge

Dining Room Dancing

We were so Stylish :).

Docked in Miami

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Fun photos!

I love the photos you guys are sharing. Thank you!

Photos are great.

I always like to see photos from "back in the day".

Keith

Oh wow! Those are great photos. I didn't cruise back then, but wish I had. What fantastic memories.

One more of the hotel that Carnival owned in Nassau. I don’t remember much about it besides a calm beach and being stung by a jelly fish on our excursion [emoji12].

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Great thread, awesome pics!

I would love to see menus from these days! CCL should really pay homage to its first ships after the next batch of ships are finished.

This is such a great thread! When I get home from work I'll find some of the pics of my first cruise on the Jubilee in '91.

This thread brings back great memories for me - feels like yesterday that I worked on the Carnivale, Mardi Gras, and the Festivale in the early 1980's as a gift shop girl and then a gift shop manager. I loved every minute of it (well almost every minute).

 

One more of the hotel that Carnival owned in Nassau. I don’t remember much about it besides a calm beach and being stung by a jelly fish on our excursion [emoji12].

 

 

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I just made the connection here - Crystal Palace is also the name of the Ecstasy's casino. I wonder how long Carnival owned the resort in Nassau? I bet it was heavily promoted onboard.

I'm loving these! Thanks for sharing y'all. (oh and the guy with that big hunk of components known as a VHS recorder lol, wow!)

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Oh..such memories....I hope someone finds pics of the Tropicale.... I was a crew member when she was brand new, Carnivals first new build. She was considered huge back in the day, 1982-1984 I was a casino dealer. Time of my life... a lot of my friends left the ships to go to the land casino in Paradise Island.

We sailed the Carnivale in 1982, however, i do not know how to post pictures. Beautiful old ship, classic lines, we loved her

Thank you, so much fun to see!