Douglas Ward's list of things that have disappeared from cruise ships!

In article ,
wrote:

BUT also:

No TV in Cabins

Never had a cabin without a TV

No safes in Cabins

Never had a cabin without a safe

No Refrigerators in cabins

I've had refrigerators on Celebrity and NCL but never had one on HAL

What he is saying is that while some things have disappeared, we
currently have stuff in the cabins they did not have before. TV's,
safes balconies and refrigerators.

--
Charles

In article , Carol
Eskra wrote:

The Maitre D no longer makes caesar salad at your dining table. Not sure
if this practice continues on the upscale lines, as I have only sailed
on the mass market ships.

I have had a Maitre D make a caesar salad in the last year. Don't
remember which one, took a bunch of cruises. What I have not seen in a
while that has disappeared was the Maitre D making flaming desserts and
pasta dishes by the table.

--
Charles

Bill wrote:
On 3/3/2010 3:19 PM, Stu wrote:

We had a bottle of bubbly and snacks waiting for us in our stateroom
last cruise

Was that from your travel agent? If not, were you in a suite? I doubt
that everyone gets that.

Must of been a suite. In the grand suite on the Granduer of the Seas we
had a free botttle of wine/champaine of our choice and also a small
snack every afternoon. This was because it was a suite, not from our TA.

sue

wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:46:00 -0800, (Gadget
World) wrote:

How about?
Nightly pillow chocolates on all lines?

We ha the nightly chocolates on our last cruise (Jan 2010) on
Celebrity. Also have had them on HAL

We had the chocolate on the Grandeur of the Seas.

BUT also:

No TV in Cabins

Never had a cabin without a TV
No safes in Cabins

Never had a cabin without a safe

We also always had a tv and a safe, although I have heard of some older
ships without a safe.

No Refrigerators in cabins

I've had refrigerators on Celebrity and NCL but never had one on HAL

Some cabins do not have refrigerators, but that is mainly on the older
ships.

I believe gadgetworld is playing with us or maybe he is talking about a
Navy ship.lol

sue

On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:48:16 -0500, Charles
wrote:

In article , Carol
Eskra wrote:

The Maitre D no longer makes caesar salad at your dining table. Not sure
if this practice continues on the upscale lines, as I have only sailed
on the mass market ships.

I have had a Maitre D make a caesar salad in the last year. Don't
remember which one, took a bunch of cruises. What I have not seen in a
while that has disappeared was the Maitre D making flaming desserts and
pasta dishes by the table.

NCL still makes flaming desserts in Le Bistro (or did in December), but
not tableside. The flames are still in sight, but the show happens at a
fixed location, not tableside.

I think it was crepes Suzette.

It wasn't made by the maitre d'hotel.

Stu wrote:

Had all the other stuff, but didn't have a refrigerator


There were no refrigerators when I started cruising, the cabins were
small, the passengers were older, the wait staff doted on you, there
were not as many children and people could still smoke in some of the
dining areas. Cruising was more expensive back in 1991, than it is now.


Becca

Becca wrote:

Cruising was more expensive back in 1991, than it is now.

Did you start cruising in 1991?? Our first cruise was the Crown
Princess, Eastern Carib., Oct 1991.

If you went to the dining room for breakfast or lunch, you sat at your
dinner time table.

Back then we had streamers for sailaway and of course a midnight buffet.
Also back then formal night was a lot more formal then it is nowadays.

sue

Sue Mullen wrote:
Did you start cruising in 1991?? Our first cruise was the Crown
Princess, Eastern Carib., Oct 1991.

If you went to the dining room for breakfast or lunch, you sat at your
dinner time table.

Back then we had streamers for sailaway and of course a midnight
buffet. Also back then formal night was a lot more formal then it is
nowadays.

sue

Sue, you are bringing back so many fond memories. On one of my first
cruises, we had to be in the dining room on the last morning of the
cruise, at 5:30am. lol Yes, my first cruise was in 1991 on the
Stella Solaris.


There have been many changes in cruising, both positive and negative.
They seem to take more pictures, now, or maybe that is just my
perception. Cruising is not as formal as it used to be. The casinos
seem to be much larger. There are lots more children and not as many
smokers.


Becca

On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:54:37 -0500, Sue Mullen
wrote:

The things that are no longer around from when I went on my first
cruise (1950) (that I remember) are things like reserved deck chairs
with blankets that the steward put out for you to wrap up in if it was
cold, horse racing, canasta tournaments, first and tourist class areas
(with separate pools for first class), and stewards that would draw
your bath (in a bathroom that was NOT attached to your cabin and for
which you had to make a reservation).

They may also have had a way for you to store a steamer trunk after
you unpacked it.

I do not remember that we had a buffet or a safe, and we certainly did
not have a TV, or a frig/minibar.

I do also know that the stewards cleaned under the beds (which on that
cruise were two fixed bunk beds), because on a subsequent cruise my
dad had a skeleton in a box under his bed and the steward asked him
about it. I doubt if the stewards now even look under the bed where
we have our luggage stored. [The skeleton was his former boss]

BUT also:

No TV in Cabins

Never had a cabin without a TV
No safes in Cabins

Never had a cabin without a safe

We also always had a tv and a safe, although I have heard of some older
ships without a safe.

The oldest ship I've been on recently was the NCL Crown which is now
out of the fleet. I don't remember whether it had a safe or not. I
know it had a TV.

Other than that, the oldest ship I've been on were the Maasdam and
Statendam (1993). They had a safe and TV but not a frig. We had an
outside cabin but not a balcony or anything.

No Refrigerators in cabins

I've had refrigerators on Celebrity and NCL but never had one on HAL

Some cabins do not have refrigerators, but that is mainly on the older
ships.


I believe gadgetworld is playing with us or maybe he is talking about a
Navy ship.lol

sue

My husband once took a sewing machine with him on the ship and made
seat covers for his car, but that wasn't standard.

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:58:21 -0800, "Island Grampa"
wrote:

A couple of more things that most ships HAVE now that they didn't have in
1985 and earlier:

1. Bath robes to use onboard

2. Extra cost restaurants

3 High priced, high profit BINGO games and photographs.

Tobieon an Island in the Pacific

They did have bingo. Probably not as high priced.