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ROTFLMAO.... C'mon tell me the truth, you really havent ... have you ?

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sarcasim at this hour ?

Only 113 days till you all sleep in your $ 2.00 hotel rooms.... LOL

Carnival orders new Queen Elizabeth ship (Miami Herald) Carnival Corp., the world's biggest cruise operator, ordered a new Queen Elizabeth ship after selling the iconic Queen Elizabeth 2 to the Dubai government. The luxury Cunard line will begin taking travelers on the 2,092-passenger vessel in 2010, Miami-based Carnival said Wednesday in a statement. Cunard also operates the Queen Mary 2 and will introduce the Queen Victoria in December. The new Queen Elizabeth, at 92,000 tons, will be built by Fincantieri SpA, the Italian state-owned company making the Queen Victoria. Carnival sold the QE2 in June to the Dubai government, which plans to keep the 40-year-old ship in port and convert it into a hotel and museum. The Queen Elizabeth will restore Cunard to a three-ship fleet after the QE2's departure. ''The decision to order another ship for Cunard Line has been taken as a result of the strong booking response to the new Queen Victoria,'' Cunard President Carol Marlow said in the statement. ``We are delighted that her majesty, the queen, has given her blessing to our calling this new Cunarder Queen Elizabeth.'' Cunard began 167 years ago with the first regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic service. The Queen Mary, the line's first vessel named after a queen, has been moored in Long Beach, Calif., since 1967 and now operates as a hotel and tourist attraction. The original Queen Elizabeth, built in the 1930s, had a troubled 28-year history, according to the Cunard Line website. The ship was requisitioned for the use of British soldiers during World War II. In subsequent use as a leisure vessel, it ran aground in 1947 and collided with a U.S. cargo ship in 1959. In the 1960s, the ship was sold to a group of U.S. businessmen who docked the vessel and used it as a hotel. The hotel closed after less than a year because it was deemed to be a fire hazard. The vessel was then bought by Hong Kong shipping group C.Y. Tung, which planned to use it as a floating university, and was destroyed by arson in 1972. The new Queen Elizabeth will be 10 percent heavier than the original, but will carry 91 fewer passengers. The ship will accommodate 301 more passengers than the QE2. Once Cunard takes delivery of the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Victoria, Cunard's three ''queens'' will have capacity for about 6,562 guests, compared with 4,411 now on the QE2 and the Queen Mary 2. The company will pay $705 million for the new ship from Fincantieri, based in Trieste, Italy. The Italian government said in July it would sell 49 percent of the shipbuilder in an initial public offering in 2008. The Queen Elizabeth will offer ''opulent public rooms and impeccable service,'' the cruise line said in the statement. The company will announce routes and design details ``in due course.'' Carnival is adding ships to its European lines, including Costa Cruises and AIDA Cruises, as demand increases for trips in the region. By 2010, 62 percent of Carnival's ship capacity will be in North America, down from 69 percent in 2007, the company said in June. Costa serves passengers from Italy, France and Spain, while AIDA is geared toward Germans. The QE2 ship sold to Dubai was launched in 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen Victoria will be formally named in December by the duchess of Cornwall in the presence of the prince of Wales, Cunard said.

Me too !!!

How could you choose a vacation over health ? The answer is a no brainer...... Deal with your health issues.

Congratulations Greg & Cheryl.....[/size]

Rumors are out in the press and online that Windjammer cruises is in deep financial trouble, cruises passengers are not allowed to board the ships, and that crewmembers, who have not been paid, are stuck living on ships with no power or air conditioning. The situation has deteriorasted to the point where there are reports of passengers arriving to find ships left empty by the crew because the fuel had run out. Why something was not done sooner to protect the company, and to prevent the continued sales of tickets when it was becoming obvious the cruises would not be taking place cannot be said. In any case, a survey of travel agents showed that they were all well aware of the situation months ago and had stopped selling Windjammer cruise already. Windjammer Cruises is a cruise line that honestly never got much coverge by the mainstream cruise press, although the line had a core following of advocates who loved the extreme free-style nature of their cruises, of which one aspect soon became synonymous with their name - barefoot cruising. Windjammer has a fleet of four small sail-ships. Their program appealed to young singles with no singles supplements, and beer and wine included with the cruise fare. If you didn't like your assigned roommate you were welcome to grab a blanket and sleep out on the deck. The ships also never docked in the U.S. presumably because they weren't like to pass the Coast Guard and CDC inspections. Still, if you were to go to the Windjammer devoted message board site jammerbabe.com, where you used to see all kinds free-spirited people making plans for future voyages on these escapist ships, the messages are all about people asking each other if they have heard anything new, and wondering if their plans are falling through. Unfortunately, many cruise and travel insurance providrers stopped covering them months ago. A visit to windjammer.com now leads you to a holding page by the web services provider NetworkSolutions. The second most visitied page after a Google on Windjammer leads you to consumeraffairs.com - full of messages from people reporting they bought tickets but are being denied boarding because the crew is on strike for not having been paid.

He has HAWT legs.... LOL

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Bon Voyage Tonia[/size]

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Kinda lets us know what you do behind closed doors.....

I believe it is on all 5 day ( and longer ) cruises

Easy peasy to make in your room.... Hot water from the Lido deck ( coffee /tea station ) and a fridge in your cabin and your good to go.....lol ROTFLMAO !

Thanks for the re-cap Donna... LMAO... tears running down my face... [/size] Mental note: Rusty will be in the bar with Bill and Greg....

Cheryl are you registered at carnival.com ? If so under reservations enter your upcoming cruise with the loco's by entering your booking number.... then the countdown will reflect your two cruises..... You are booked in a specific cabin, do not worry !!!

It apparently brings a couple hundred thousand people to Key West... Looks like a wild time....

ROTFLMAO... Is this why you are registering your booking number ?

It is once around the ship and no you are not timed..... SO you can do this, With all of the weight you have lost heck I could probably piggy back you .... LOL

You are gonna miss Fantasy Fest..... Are you sure you can't go the week before ?

I have been in the Hotel Managers Office, nobody ever gets to go into there....LOL