Souvenir glasses… actual glass!

[Steppy08]

Remember getting loads of souvenir glasses on ships? 
I’ve kept only two since my mom downsized and made an Aruba Ariba today using the one from my first cruise ever. 

[rkacruiser]

I had not heard of Aruba Aruba and looked up the recipe.  The drink sounds as good as it looks!

 

I do recall these souvenir glasses.  When I learned that the drinks in them cost more than the drinks not in them, I stopped buying them.  

[norboy76]

I have some nice vintage glasses for various cruise ships and lines such as:

1. Costa Riviera (2 different versions)

2. Regal Empress

3. SS Norway

4. Sunward II

5. MV Tropicana

6. 2 Royal Caribbean (both show the fleet names showing only 5 names: sun viking, nordic prince, song of norway, song of america and sovereign of the seas)

7. SeaEscape

8. Cunard (2 ships named on this one Cunard Princess & Cunard Countess)

9. SS Meridian 

10. Carnival (Looks like a whiskey glass)

11. Carnival Hurricane Glass

12. Princess Roly Poly Glasses

13. Ove Skou sherry glasses from 1950

14. Festival Cruises

15. Crown Cruise Line

16. BC Ferries Queen Of Esquilmalt tea cup and saucer

 

Not all but here are some photos to enjoy

 

[Steppy08]

19 hours ago, norboy76 said:

I have some nice vintage glasses for various cruise ships and lines such as:

1. Costa Riviera (2 different versions)

2. Regal Empress

3. SS Norway

4. Sunward II

5. MV Tropicana

6. 2 Royal Caribbean (both show the fleet names showing only 5 names: sun viking, nordic prince, song of norway, song of america and sovereign of the seas)

7. SeaEscape

8. Cunard (2 ships named on this one Cunard Princess & Cunard Countess)

9. SS Meridian 

10. Carnival (Looks like a whiskey glass)

11. Carnival Hurricane Glass

12. Princess Roly Poly Glasses

13. Ove Skou sherry glasses from 1950

14. Festival Cruises

15. Crown Cruise Line

16. BC Ferries Queen Of Esquilmalt tea cup and saucer

 

Very cool! Were the teacups given away or purchased? 
 

I honestly don’t remember them giving you an option to NOT get the souvenir glasses at first. We ended up with so many of them. I was also underage and not paying for any of it so I didn’t pay attention. (This was also back when you could drink on the ships at 18 and no one really checked IDs to begin with)

[rkacruiser]

29 minutes ago, Steppy08 said:

Very cool! Were the teacups given away or purchased? 
 

I honestly don’t remember them giving you an option to NOT get the souvenir glasses at first. We ended up with so many of them. I was also underage and not paying for any of it so I didn’t pay attention. (This was also back when you could drink on the ships at 18 and no one really checked IDs to begin with)

 

I suspect you are correct and I wouldn't be surprised if it is still that way on some cruise lines today, particularly when the bars are selling their "sailaway special".  

[norboy76]

On 7/23/2022 at 2:37 PM, Steppy08 said:

Very cool! Were the teacups given away or purchased? 

The tea cup and saucer were from the gift shop on board

[marco]

And every once and a while they turn up at Goodwill or Salvation Army for 99 cents.

[rkacruiser]

Some of the items in my collection were found at thrift stores.