Cruise Line Daily Programs

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Do you seek out and use past editions of cruise line daily programs (Funship Times, Princess Patter, Freestyle Daily, etc.) as tools when you're choosing or planning a cruise?

If so, where/how do you find them, what information are you looking for, and how do you use that information to choose/plan a cruise?

Have you ever brought all the daily programs home with you from a cruise? If so, what did you do with them once back on dry land?

Thanks in advance for your input!

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19 Answers

Carnival Capers, those words bribing back so many happy memories on Carnival with our children. We loved Carnivsl back then even though all we could afford was an inside cabin for all of us. Carnival has been good to us and we are at Platinum level now. HAL is our favorite now but Celebrity is way up there too. I would love to see these activity sheets for a new cruise line but I have been on most of them by now. Good idea to post them. This site keeps on getting better. Gloria

We’ve got almost every daily newsletter from every cruise we’ve taken, so that’s a lot! As others do, we refer to the newsletters when labeling photos or writing reviews but we rarely look at them later. We have had friends who’ve cruised with us call and ask us to look things up – they all know how much we love cruising and how we keep track of everything cruise related!

I really like the idea of assembling a database of them here at cruiseline.com. Newer ones could be REALLY helpful to those who are planning their next cruise and older ones will certainly be interesting from a historical standpoint. To make things even more challenging for your IT team, think about being able to sort them by Cruise Director and Captain as well. A lot of ship-board activities and events seem to be more because of the people in charge rather than the ship itself.

Midnight Pasta Buffet on the Tropicale! Nothing like a full load of carbs just before bed!

Hey Johngold, you are very creative. Love what you did. Thanks for sharing.

Just a humorous note. When we were on NCL. The wastepaper baskets have an oval NCL logo paper piece......We saved those and asked the attendant for more....... Great for Scrapbooking and when laminated make great coasters and place mats..... I know, I know... tacky as hell, but when you see your guest roll their eyes and laugh....You know they will have questions about cruising..

I was on the Carnival Tropicale, too. We still call all the cruise line's daily activity sheets Carnival Capers. Our first cruise was on the Mardi Gras.

That is awesome. We still have parts of our first RCI Cruise Compass from 2007, not as old. We cut it up for a scrapbook! What were we thinking!!

This is the oldest one I have from the Carnival Tropicale

I am taking a long cruise with HAL followed by a back to back. I will save all the daily planners in case the site wants to use them for posting. Gloria

Having the dailies in an organized manner is definitely a worthwhile endeavor. I know one of the big things even experienced cruisers like my wife and I always look for on the internet when planning are the dailies. That is why we are loading them on our blog and know other bloggers are doing that too. Having them in an convenient location would be a nice offering here on cruiseline.com's forums.

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