Fun Ship Facts - From 17 Years Ago

[Rick]

While cleaning today I came across an album of my Fun Ship Southern
Caribbean Cruise on 6/27/92 aboard the Carnival Tropicale. Amazingly
it was 17 years tomorrow. Well here are some facts in the album.
Just for fun hope you enjoy.

* At the time of this cruise Carnival had the following ships in
service Carnival Celebration, Ecstasy, Fantasy, Festivale, Holiday,
Jubilee, Mardi Gras, Tropical

* Carnival Used paper tickets and we flew JFK to San Juan on TWA. The
Tropical set sail at 10PM and went to St. Thomas, Guadalupe, Grenada,
La Guaira, Aruba and back to San Juan. The entire trip Cruise,
Transfers, 2 days post cruise at the El San Juan Hotel and Casino and
airfare cost $4800 for 4 people. Airfare alone was $315.20 per
person. So about $1200 per person.

* Laundry Service Charges ranged in price from $.80 for ladies
panties, Brassiere $.75 for mens underware all the way to a whooping
$3.50 for a ladies dress (wash & press) or Mens Trousers or Dress
Shirt $2.00 (wash and press).

* Cruise Director was David Fee

* St. Thomas - Taxi to town cost $2.50 per person.

* Granada - For those who denied Carnival ever had Beer Drinking
Contests - On Tuesday June 30, 1992 at 1:45PM on the Lido Deck BEER
DRINKING CONTEST. At 2PM was trapshooting on Empress Deck Aft.

* Bridge Tour at 10AM on July 3rd.

* Ships tour to Barcardi Rum Factory was $25 per person. We did it on
our own for $1.75.

[Becca]

Rick wrote:
> While cleaning today I came across an album of my Fun Ship Southern
> Caribbean Cruise on 6/27/92 aboard the Carnival Tropicale. Amazingly
> it was 17 years tomorrow. Well here are some facts in the album.
> Just for fun hope you enjoy.

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Rick, I am so glad you posted this message, it was a joy to read all of
the details about your cruise on the Tropicale. I am also glad I am not
the only one who keeps cruise albums. lol I put mine in a box in the
garage about two weeks ago, I counted them and there were 55.
Unfortunately I did not keep track of my first few cruises, but I wish I
had.

Becca

[Becca]

Brian K wrote:
> On 6/29/2009 1:50 PM Becca while holding "Agent 99", exclaimed:
>> Rick wrote:
>>> While cleaning today I came across an album of my Fun Ship Southern
>>> Caribbean Cruise on 6/27/92 aboard the Carnival Tropicale. Amazingly
>>> it was 17 years tomorrow. Well here are some facts in the album.
>>> Just for fun hope you enjoy.
>>
>> snip...
>>
>>
>> Rick, I am so glad you posted this message, it was a joy to read all
>> of the details about your cruise on the Tropicale. I am also glad I
>> am not the only one who keeps cruise albums. lol I put mine in a box
>> in the garage about two weeks ago, I counted them and there were 55.
>> Unfortunately I did not keep track of my first few cruises, but I
>> wish I had.
>>
>>
>> Becca
> Becca,
>
> If you keep cars in your garage too, then it's unwise to keep your
> cruise albums in their too. The exhaust fumes will hasten the voyage
> of color photos to becoming purple bits of glossy paper. (Unless
> archivally processed, all color photo prints degrade into opaque
> squares of purple over time. Nothing lasts forever.) If your album
> pictures are mounted on anything but acid free paper, this to will
> accelerate the degrading of your photos. My mom discovered that what
> I am saying is true. Her WW II photo albums have paper that is
> crumbling from the acid content. Many of the B&W photos have turned
> completely white.
>
> A stop gap is to scan your old photos into your computer. Then copy
> onto optical media. You might ask why some photos from the 1890s are
> still in excellent shape. That's because they were platinum processed
> (a lost art amongst modern film processors). Platinum processing can
> be very toxic if not done properly. But the process is the most
> archival of film processes.
>
> Didn't mean to go off on a tangent here. The bottom line is don't
> store your cruise albums where you store your car.

Brian, you are offering some wise advice concerning photographs. It was
102 a couple of days ago, and who knows how hot it gets in the garage,
but it feels like it is 120 degrees. My photographs are in the house,
but my cruise scrapbooks are stored in the garage. Each album has the
cruise line's newsletters, the cruise tickets, a list of shore
excursions, luggage tags, cabin keys, the cruise invoice and some have
the cruise line brochure.

When I croak, my children will wonder what to do with it. lol

Becca