Caribbean Princess Photos 5/1-5/8

Here are our pictures from our CP cruise. Enjoy.
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Bruce

Crown 1991 Eastern Caribbean
Dreamward 1994 Bermuda
Sun 1997 Western Caribbean
Grand 1999 Mediterranean
Dawn 2000 Southern Caribbean
Ocean 2001 Mexican Riviera
Crown 2001 Hawaii/Tahiti
Dawn 2002 Eastern Caribbean
Conquest 2003 W. Caribbean
Dawn 2003 Transit Panama Canal
Caribbean 2004 Eastern Caribbean

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Thanks for sharing. Some great shots in there! [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Thanks for the sneak peek! Can't wait to climb aboard May 22!

Tim and Joann
NCL Norway 1987
NCL Seaward 1997
CCL Destiny 1999
NCL Norway 2000
RCI Explorer 2001
RCI Adventure 2002
Celebrity Galaxy 2003
Golden Princess 2003

Bruce,
Some of the best pics of Caribbean Princess we've seen. Great Job.. We are sailing her 7/17....Thanks..

Pete...

Bruce..
Did you write a review????

Pete...

Hi Pete,
No review yet. The pictures were the easy part. The writting is a bit harder and requires a little more brain power than I have right after a cruise. I will be posting some thoughts soon.
Thanks for asking.

Bruce

Crown 1991 Eastern Caribbean
Dreamward 1994 Bermuda
Sun 1997 Western Caribbean
Grand 1999 Mediterranean
Dawn 2000 Southern Caribbean
Ocean 2001 Mexican Riviera
Crown 2001 Hawaii/Tahiti
Dawn 2002 Eastern Caribbean
Conquest 2003 W. Caribbean
Dawn 2003 Transit Panama Canal
Caribbean 2004 Eastern Caribbean

Bruce,

Your pictures are wonderful and provide a very nice overview of what I should expect on my upcoming cruise. I am happy to see that there will be no shortage of bars.

On an unrelated note, do you recall the order of the dining menus (e.g. which menu corresponds to which day)?? I am pretty sure that I have the sailaway and landfall menus placed, but the other days are not clear. Thanks much.

Ditto...thanks for the great pictures....sailing in exactly four months!

9/11/04 ...days left til the Caribbean Princess!!
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Destiny, here we come 4/10/05!!
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3/04 Adventure of the Seas
9/03 Majesty of the Seas
3/03 Radiance of the Seas
3/00 Victory

Hey Bruce....nice job on the photos. Can't wait until Oct 30. Have you posted any Patters? All I can find are from the western sailing [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif[/img]

merlin71,
I'm pretty sure the order for the Eastern Caribbean is:
Sailaway, Captains Welcome, Italian, Chefs Dinner, Caribbean, Captains Gala and Landfall.

Sorry JaniceC don't know if I'll get that far. But if you have some specific questions I'll try to answer them
Bruce

Crown 1991 Eastern Caribbean
Dreamward 1994 Bermuda
Sun 1997 Western Caribbean
Grand 1999 Mediterranean
Dawn 2000 Southern Caribbean
Ocean 2001 Mexican Riviera
Crown 2001 Hawaii/Tahiti
Dawn 2002 Eastern Caribbean
Conquest 2003 W. Caribbean
Dawn 2003 Transit Panama Canal
Caribbean 2004 Eastern Caribbean

[QUOTE]Originally posted by CruiseKing:
Here are our pictures from our CP cruise. Enjoy.
[url="http://photos.yahoo.com/cpebmw"]http://photos.yahoo.com/cpebmw[/url]
Bruce
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Bruce,
Thanks for the wonderful pictures, now we are more excited than ever for our 7/24 sailing! Can you make any recommendations while in port?
Thanks,
Wendy

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Wendy,

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the pictures.

I have no recommendations for St. Maarten, I usually just take the water taxi to downtown Philipsburg.

In St. Thomas, I think the full day champagne catamaran sail to St. John is the way to go.
Make sure it's the FULL day (6 hours) as that is usually on The Heavenly Days. It takes you to Honeymoon Beach and after snorkeling or just laying on the beach, they serve a full lunch and have an open bar for the sail back.

Your sure to have a great time no matter what you do....

Bruce

Crown 1991 Eastern Caribbean
Dreamward 1994 Bermuda
Sun 1997 Western Caribbean
Grand 1999 Mediterranean
Dawn 2000 Southern Caribbean
Ocean 2001 Mexican Riviera
Crown 2001 Hawaii/Tahiti
Dawn 2002 Eastern Caribbean
Conquest 2003 W. Caribbean
Dawn 2003 Transit Panama Canal
Caribbean 2004 Eastern Caribbean

Great Photos! Some of the best I've seen as well of the Caribbean and the ship.

Would you mind sharing what kind of camera you used?

Thanks.
Liz

Liz,
Thank you. No problem. It is the Fuji FinePix S5000. Some of the specs are 3.1 Megapixel 10X Optical Zoom. The zoom compares to a 35MM camera lens range from 37mm-370mm. The flash is terrific. I set the camera to auto and it does the rest.

Bruce

Crown 1991 Eastern Caribbean
Dreamward 1994 Bermuda
Sun 1997 Western Caribbean
Grand 1999 Mediterranean
Dawn 2000 Southern Caribbean
Ocean 2001 Mexican Riviera
Crown 2001 Hawaii/Tahiti
Dawn 2002 Eastern Caribbean
Conquest 2003 W. Caribbean
Dawn 2003 Transit Panama Canal
Caribbean 2004 Eastern Caribbean

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Bruce
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Thanks for the info Bruce.

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Hey Bruce

I just got home from the Caribbean Saturday. Kinda a bummer to be back but loved looking at your pics. I wish I had taken as many wonderful shots as you did. I took all my 4 rolls in this morning for one hour service, my impatience kicked in. Anyway.... I was wondering if by chance If there is a way to share some of your pics. I am new to this board thing as well as computer knowledge so I wasn't sure. I loved your boat pics. You did a great job. thank you so much for sharing them. Debbie my email address is [email]Debs4ou@aol.com[/email]

Thanks Bruce,

Great photos, also it was great meeting you and the other Maydayers.

Sharon

Thanks, the pleasure was all mine.

Bruce

Crown 1991 Eastern Caribbean
Dreamward 1994 Bermuda
Sun 1997 Western Caribbean
Grand 1999 Mediterranean
Dawn 2000 Southern Caribbean
Ocean 2001 Mexican Riviera
Crown 2001 Hawaii/Tahiti
Dawn 2002 Eastern Caribbean
Conquest 2003 W. Caribbean
Dawn 2003 Transit Panama Canal
Caribbean 2004 Eastern Caribbean

Great pics. I can't wait until September 18th.

Haha, I was looking at your photos and was wondering why so many had no people in them. Then I noticed that at least one of them (#35) was taken straight from the [url=http://www.princess.com/inaugurals/caribbean/photo.html]inaugural page for CP at princess.com[/url]. So, how many of the photos are actually yours?

thundercleese,

Thank you for the interest in my photos. To answer your question - 68. All except #35 which I included (and attributed if you noticed) from the Princess website to illustrate the tiered balconies that so many people have questions about.

I find the best way to get pictures of the ship, not passengers, are on port days. Since I've been to many of these ports before I simply wait until most passengers have disembarked and I have ample time to take passenger free pictures. I also find that this is the best time to find a prime spot the pool!

CruiseKing,

Nice photos!:) Thank you for taking the time to share them all with us. I'm headed out on the Caribbean Princess in December and can't get enough of the photos!

Did you have a favorite hangout on the ship?

Thank you partyboy.
We had a nice balcony cabin as you could see. Most afternoons my wife and I would fix ourselves a drink, I'd have a cigar and we would wave to the captain on the bridge and enjoy our sailaway's from port. After dinner we spent most of our evenings in the Wheelhouse Bar at the bar. The bartenders, Sam and Ronnie took very good care of us. We were like their regulars. The captain and cruise director came by each evening and we would have a nice conversation with them. We also met some of the friendliest passengers in their every night. Anyway you do it or anywhere you find a comfortable spot I'm sure you'll have a great cruise. Any other questions feel free to ask and I'll answer them as best I can.
Bruce

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Hi, I noticed that you only cruised Carnival once. Why or why not would you do it again? We are looking toward the Elation and have not been on Carnival as a family.
Thanks!

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