How old were you when...

[Orcrone]

How old were you when you went on your first cruise. I was 29 (just 3 months short of my 30th birthday, and it was RCCL's Song of America.

[doone]

My first cruise was when I was 22 I think, around that age anyways, I have been hooked ever since. First cruise was on NCL's Southward.

[peaches from georgia]

Approx. 40 and also on the Song of America. Loved that ship, but your first cruise is always memorable. :D

[Randyk47]

I responded based on actually cruising versus taking a ship as a mode of transportation. My first experience on a ship was in the early 50's sailing to England on the United States. Not exactly a cruise so I went with my "trial" Fantasy cruise in '93.

[Tatka]

It was 1986, I was 14. (See my signature)

[Himself]

I was 55 when I went on my first cruise. I went on the now defunct ENCHANTED ISLE out of New Orleans. Then I tried HAL and have been going HAL ever since.

HIMSELF

[iluvcruzin]

First cruise I was 28. It wasn't the Song of America - that was cruise #2. :D

[jhannah]

I was a late bloomer, not crusing until I was 56. It was a trip to Alaska that did us in. We've been hooked ever since.

[SHayesShip]

I was six years old and did a crossing on the Queen Mary.

Steve Hayes

 

 

How old were you when you went on your first cruise. I was 29 (just 3 months short of my 30th birthday, and it was RCCL's Song of America.

[Debi_D]

We were 28 and 29 on the old Veendam and we had so much fun that we have been sailing ever since. Now we enjoy two cruise every year.......

[MandyGirl]

We were ages 26/28 (in 2000), and our first cruise was the Norwegian Sky 7-night Western Caribbean. We fell in love with cruising, and chose to marry on cruise #3 in St John, USVI. :)

[Druke I]

We were 26, and sailed from Vancouver BC to San Francisco on P&O's Oriana (the old, not the new). She was on a line voyage from Oz to England, via North America and the Panama Canal.

[Krazy Kruizers]

:)

 

It took me years to get husband to get on a cruise ship. Now he is hooked. We had owned a cabin cruiser for years.

 

Does owning your own cabin cruiser count as a cruise?

 

:)

[Roz]

I was 48 and had to be gently persuaded to even consider a cruise. It exceeded my expectations and I came home and couldn't wait to book another one.

 

Roz

[the2ofus]

I was 20 years old and sailed to and from Europe, spending the summer studying in France. The eastward trip was on the Italian Line Aurelia. The trip home was on the Holland America Line Groote Beer. The ship carried mostly students returning from Europe and a handful of adult chaperones. It was a madhouse, but I loved being at sea. My next cruise was thirty-three years later, once again on HAL, this time on MS Statendam. Discovered I still loved being at sea and have added 8 more cruises since then.

[Divetex]

51 years young when I went on my first cruise, in 1993. I must have liked it. :D

[cactuslady]

:)

 

 

Does owning your own cabin cruiser count as a cruise?

 

My dictionary defines "cruise" as "to sail from place to place, as for pleasure or in search of something." Thus, it depends on whether you used your cabin cruiser for its intended purpose or just paid the slip rent. I'd say 90% of them just sit in the marina waiting to go to sea someday . . .

 

No huge ship owned by a big company is necessary. I've had lots of fine cruises in a 24 foot sailboat.

[Keith Rita]

I was 50 and Rita was 48. We were just married and I was starting my second life. :cool: :cool:

[travelingmcmahans]

I'm 29 and going on my first cruise as my 30th birthday present.

[BCEagle78]

I was 42 as was my wife Debbi... Veendam 4/98...

[Krazy Kruizers]

:) cactuslady

Thanks for the definition.

WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR VOTE.

For quite a few years we owned a cabin cruiser ans cruised one year from Pittsburgh to New Orleans - long trip - a long time ago.

We didn't kepp the cabin cruiser at the dock.

:)

[dougnewmanatsea]

I was 4 (just about to turn 5). HORIZON February 1993, Southern Caribbean from San Juan. Martinique, Barbados, Antigua, St. Lucia, St. Thomas - I think in that order. I'll have to pull out my brochure now to make sure I got it right.

 

If going on a small boat counts as a cruise I was probably a couple of months old when I went on my first one, but I'd be inclined to say that it doesn't count, personally.

[HeatherInFlorida]

I was 4 (just about to turn 5). HORIZON February 1993, Southern Caribbean from San Juan. Martinique, Barbados, Antigua, St. Lucia, St. Thomas - I think in that order. I'll have to pull out my brochure now to make sure I got it right.

Awk!!!:eek: Doug!! You were 4 in '93???!!! I'm going to kill myself.

 

Now that I've recovered, I was 17 when I went on my first cruise on the Queen of Bermuda, a ship I've mentioned before and it's so long ago nobody ever heard of her:) . Anyway, it was a high school graduation gift from my grandmother and we went together. One of the all time high points of my life.

[SharonN]

I was 33 and my husband was 35 on our first cruise in 1986. It was the year of our 10th Anniversary and was to Alaska on the Regent Sea.

[sail7seas]

I was about 43 and loved it from the first moment we boarded. Our first cruise was on Royal Princess.