A to Z of Life Onboard

[Gettingwarmer]

Map

Golden Princess

Oriana

Oriana

 

 

[purplesea]

M for

Menu

Mr Bump and Little Miss Sunshine

[Britboys]

Sorry to be a bit tardy with my 'L's' -

 

Lido Pool and Lotus Pool on Coral Princess

 

[Britboys]

Movies under the Stars (MUTS) Screen on Coral Princess.  As you can understand, with the natural moving backdrop, it wasn't much of an attraction in Alaska...

[Britboys]

Mountains (oh, and a Glacier) seen from the decks of Coral Princess (note the Bridge Cam image on the MUTS Screen too...)

[Izzywiz]

loving the Ms and I have a few more to add

 

Muster station drill on Splendour of the Seas

 

 

 

Moths hitching a ride on Adonia and Royal Princess

I think this one was hoping for a job 🤩

 

and a misty morning off the coast of Russia taken from Diamond Princess. Korsakov was a tender port and those are test tenders that was sent out to see if it was safe to take people ashore....The mist lifted later and we did land.

[Izzywiz]

We have enjoyed a few 'Movies under the stars' on Princess ships

 

 

 

 

and remember the time when there were Midnight buffets on ships...

 

The gentleman on the gantry was doing maintenance on Splendour of the Seas

 

 

and this was our Maître D' on Sun Princess

 

My last M is the moon taken from the deck on Boudicca

[Britboys]

Mosaic Mural of MV Funchal on MV Funchal...

[Britboys]

Mirrored ceiling on MV Funchal

[Britboys]

Sorry - another late entry of 'L' - the Lisboa Restaurant on MV Funchal - the main dining room.

[grapau27]

M is for Movies under the stars on Grand Princess to Hawaii.

We actually watched the Pearl Harbour film on this screen during a sea day before we reached Hawaii.

[Izzywiz]

Good morning and happy 'winter time'. Hi Grapau, I also found that Princess try to show 'appropriate' films on their sailings. We had 'South Pacific' when sailing from Bora Bora to Tahiti, 'Australia' on the trip from Sydney to Perth and 'Madam Butterfly' on the Japan cruise!

I hope you don't mind me starting the Ns. I struggled a bit with this letter but found a few...

Brown Noddies and terns on the mooring ropes in Puerto Madryn

 

 

 

and Costa NeoRomantica

 

 

[Izzywiz]

Nativity, Splendour of the Seas

 

Naughty but nice and nibbles on MSC Armonia

 

 

Nelson, our waiter on NCL Dreamward....it was 1993 and we were very young..

 

night time entertainment on Princess Panhwar performed by a local dance group in Myanmar

  

[Izzywiz]

my next Ns are all on Norwegian Cruise lines. We did a lot of our early cruises with them until the line stopped doing the unusual itineraries at times when we could travel. We were always confined to school holidays until I retired from full time teaching in 2004 and my husband retired at the end of 2012.

 

Leaving New York on NCL Dreamward. Our first cruise on a large, modern ship

 

 

 

Dreamward was later renamed Norwegian Dream and we sailed on her through the Kiel Canal several years later

we also sailed on Norwegian Star and Sun

 

 

....as well as Norwegian Crown which later became Fred Olsen's Balmoral. I had my biggest cruise bargain ever on this sailing which was from Miami to Valparaiso in 2005. We had booked the cheapest inside cabin but, when I rang NCL with a query about something, the agent asked if i would be interested in upgrading to an outside cabin. I asked her how much and she said it was £11. I said "£11 per person, per day?" and she said "no. £11 total for the cruise". It didn't take long to accept!!!!

 

[Izzywiz]

My last N also has a story....sorry to bore you all!

I have been friends with Jan for 70 years. Our fathers worked together and became best friends so we girls grew up together. Jan and her parents were a tremendous support to my dad and I when my mother died when I was 12. My Dad took us both on a cruise on the Shaw Saville line ship, Northern Star, to celebrate our 21st birthdays in 1969. Jan was my bridesmaid and I was hers, 2 weeks apart, in 1971 and she and her Canadian husband moved  to Canada where she has lived ever since. We keep in touch and have visited each other over the years. We were hoping to cruise together in 2021 to celebrate our golden wedding anniversaries in June and have all our fingers and toes crossed for a speedy solution to this horrible virus.

 

Northern Star

 

  

[DamianG]

N is for:

Nap time (who doesn't like an afternoon snooze on a sea day?)

[DamianG]

Neighbours (when the in-laws booked the cabin right next to ours).

 

 Father-in-law used to summon us by going out on the balcony and shouting over 😱

 

Edited October 25, 2020 by DamianG

[Gettingwarmer]

Neptune Pool Sapphire Princess

 

[Gettingwarmer]

Nativity Cake 

[grapau27]

2 hours ago, Izzywiz said:

My last N also has a story....sorry to bore you all!

I have been friends with Jan for 70 years. Our fathers worked together and became best friends so we girls grew up together. Jan and her parents were a tremendous support to my dad and I when my mother died when I was 12. My Dad took us both on a cruise on the Shaw Saville line ship, Northern Star, to celebrate our 21st birthdays in 1969. Jan was my bridesmaid and I was hers, 2 weeks apart, in 1971 and she and her Canadian husband moved  to Canada where she has lived ever since. We keep in touch and have visited each other over the years. We were hoping to cruise together in 2021 to celebrate our golden wedding anniversaries in June and have all our fingers and toes crossed for a speedy solution to this horrible virus.

 

Northern Star

 

  

That would be a lovely way to celebrate your Golden wedding anniversaries together.

Graham & Pauline.Gra Pau.

Edited October 25, 2020 by grapau27

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Neil Turnbull (captain) on Azura

[Britboys]

Nile cruiser seen from the top deck of MS Mayfair, the Nile cruiser I was on...

[Ardennais]

O.....

Oriental Restaurant - Azura

 

[Izzywiz]

Loved the nap picture Damian but time for some Os now. These took some searching for....

Opera an MSC Armonia

 

 

Outside cabin on Boudicca

 

obstructed View cabin on Braemar

 

and Ocean princess

[Izzywiz]

My next 'o' os for old friends. we met Evida on Royal Princess in 2008 when she was one of our table companions and she was delightful company. In 2011 she tapped me on the shoulder as we sailed under Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sun Princess and we then met up on a few occasions for a drink and a chat. We were playing scrabble on deck on Celebrity Constellation when Evida  appeared by our side so, once again, we met up occasionally for a chat.....a lovely lady

 

This s a bit tenuous but it is the outside deck on Splendour of the Seas

 

and finally, Oriana in Andalsness, Norway when it was 'Oh' so cold