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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
Tom & Linda wrote:
Howie, please give Eileen our best regards, and hope she's feeling better. Thanks, Tom. |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
Tom & Linda wrote:
Howie, please give Eileen our best regards, and hope she's feeling better. Thanks, Tom. |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
Tom & Linda wrote:
Howie, please give Eileen our best regards, and hope she's feeling better. Thanks, Tom. |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
Lee Lindquist wrote:
Anxious to take the cruise, but once you do, it no longer gives a great feeling of satisfaction. True. If you've been on a lot of cruises, you can compare -- this embarkation is the worst I've endured; this show is the lamest I've seen, etc. Lately, there seem to be a lot more "worst that I've seen", than "best I've seen"... I usually don't focus on the "worsts", Lee; my real problem seems to be the "I've seen." Howie |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
Lee Lindquist wrote:
Anxious to take the cruise, but once you do, it no longer gives a great feeling of satisfaction. True. If you've been on a lot of cruises, you can compare -- this embarkation is the worst I've endured; this show is the lamest I've seen, etc. Lately, there seem to be a lot more "worst that I've seen", than "best I've seen"... I usually don't focus on the "worsts", Lee; my real problem seems to be the "I've seen." Howie |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
Lee Lindquist wrote:
Anxious to take the cruise, but once you do, it no longer gives a great feeling of satisfaction. True. If you've been on a lot of cruises, you can compare -- this embarkation is the worst I've endured; this show is the lamest I've seen, etc. Lately, there seem to be a lot more "worst that I've seen", than "best I've seen"... I usually don't focus on the "worsts", Lee; my real problem seems to be the "I've seen." Howie |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
"Howie" wrote in message ... This was our 46th cruise, 18th on Carnival, and 5th cruise since Jan 2004. It was our first cruise out of New York City. Eileen has required a wheelchair for a number of different embarkations over the past couple of years, and Carnival is about as good as it gets in providing embarkation assistance for passengers with restricted mobility. For six out of the next 7 days, the weather was awful (overcast and/or rainy) and Eileen was ill. Howie, I am so sorry that Eileen was feeling so poorly from day one of this cruise..It is bad enough being ill at home, but being ill away from the comforts of home is so much worse...I pray that she is recovering and feeling much better by now. I'm glad Carnival was so good about providing embarkation assistance for her... Please give her my very best get well wishes.. --Jean |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
"Howie" wrote in message ... This was our 46th cruise, 18th on Carnival, and 5th cruise since Jan 2004. It was our first cruise out of New York City. Eileen has required a wheelchair for a number of different embarkations over the past couple of years, and Carnival is about as good as it gets in providing embarkation assistance for passengers with restricted mobility. For six out of the next 7 days, the weather was awful (overcast and/or rainy) and Eileen was ill. Howie, I am so sorry that Eileen was feeling so poorly from day one of this cruise..It is bad enough being ill at home, but being ill away from the comforts of home is so much worse...I pray that she is recovering and feeling much better by now. I'm glad Carnival was so good about providing embarkation assistance for her... Please give her my very best get well wishes.. --Jean |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
Howie,
First I sincerely hope that Eileen is feeling better! Second thank you for taking the time writing such an interesting and comprehensive review. We too are starting to have problems with the sameness of cruiselines and although we plan at least for now to continue cruising it is not as rewarding for us as it once was. Some of that feeling is almost certainly simply because we have been fortunate enough to cruise several times a year since the early 80's. We are obviously spoiled to some degree and admit it. Still a portion of it is that cruising presents less and less of a unique experience. Many of the highlights of cruising are either gone or fading. Such things as being able to get away from the world for a while. With CNN and ready newspapers etc. you are no longer isolated at sea. That has positive and negative aspects. With onboard revenue being more and more the trend cruising gets more and more like any other vacation resort area where you have to start calculating expenditures during the trip whereas previously you had already done that and could basically sit back and enjoy what you had already expended and cried about. Finally with large ships and capacity the older feelings of being part of a community at sea for 7 or so days has ebbed considerably again making a cruise less unique. We'll be sailing the Zenith in October with several friends to relive past sailings through the years and sailing the Coral Princess in January since we have never sailed Princess. Looking for something different although doubtful that Princess will offer anything that varied from others now. We shall see. In recent times we sailed Carnival and NCL from NY and loved sailing from NY despite the total craziness of the NY Piers now. But such sailings are more like taking a few days up at the casino to get away than a unique and special vacation. Just a fairly reasonable priced get away by ship instead of car. So although cruising for now will remain a part of our vacation/getaway lifestyle we too find that we are looking more and more at alternative get aways. George in NY "Howie" wrote in message ... This was our 46th cruise, 18th on Carnival, and 5th cruise since Jan 2004. It was our first cruise out of New York City. Howie - who is definitely not cruising for at least six months. |
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Carnival Miracle 7-17-04 Review 7 Days New York to Bahamas
Howie,
First I sincerely hope that Eileen is feeling better! Second thank you for taking the time writing such an interesting and comprehensive review. We too are starting to have problems with the sameness of cruiselines and although we plan at least for now to continue cruising it is not as rewarding for us as it once was. Some of that feeling is almost certainly simply because we have been fortunate enough to cruise several times a year since the early 80's. We are obviously spoiled to some degree and admit it. Still a portion of it is that cruising presents less and less of a unique experience. Many of the highlights of cruising are either gone or fading. Such things as being able to get away from the world for a while. With CNN and ready newspapers etc. you are no longer isolated at sea. That has positive and negative aspects. With onboard revenue being more and more the trend cruising gets more and more like any other vacation resort area where you have to start calculating expenditures during the trip whereas previously you had already done that and could basically sit back and enjoy what you had already expended and cried about. Finally with large ships and capacity the older feelings of being part of a community at sea for 7 or so days has ebbed considerably again making a cruise less unique. We'll be sailing the Zenith in October with several friends to relive past sailings through the years and sailing the Coral Princess in January since we have never sailed Princess. Looking for something different although doubtful that Princess will offer anything that varied from others now. We shall see. In recent times we sailed Carnival and NCL from NY and loved sailing from NY despite the total craziness of the NY Piers now. But such sailings are more like taking a few days up at the casino to get away than a unique and special vacation. Just a fairly reasonable priced get away by ship instead of car. So although cruising for now will remain a part of our vacation/getaway lifestyle we too find that we are looking more and more at alternative get aways. George in NY "Howie" wrote in message ... This was our 46th cruise, 18th on Carnival, and 5th cruise since Jan 2004. It was our first cruise out of New York City. Howie - who is definitely not cruising for at least six months. |
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