C8 - Wednesday, February 9, 1983 - North Shore News

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THE FLOATING CITY CALLED ‘TROPICALE’

No ordinary cruise ship, this!

The treatuse, dear readers, is about a cruise ship which cost $110 million and didn’t earn a dime for two years while growing up. Now it is able to boast a 102 per cent occupancy and is taking the North American’ vacation market by storm.

“The Tropicale” is no ordinary cruise ship. Its owners, Carnival Cruise

status as the most successful cruise line anywhere by re- furbishing three other passenger ships for the cruise market, all but their money

resources to produce this

beauty that cruise critics call “absolutely magnificent.”

This

city, fresh from a successful shakedown summer sailing out of Vancouver to Alaska, is performing in seven-day steps out of Los Angeles through the warm waters of the Mexican Riviera. Cruise patrons, realizing a holiday at sea is the most eco- nomical of all holidays, are passing the word around.

“The Tropicale’s” oc- cupancy average continues above the 100 per cent Category.

Wouldn't we think a ship of this stature, designed to accommodate more than 1,200 guests in 611 spacious cabins, would leave the lay-

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plowing through sunny seas, losing its many guests in the caverns of a 10-storey ship? Not so, says Brenda Thomas, travel co-ordinator

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and seclusion, rather than of great space and mealtime regimentation.

Thomas said ‘The Tropicale” boasts the largest casino afloat, where the atmosphere and tempo 1s easy and where the dealers, trim in their tuxedos, give daily lectures on the correct procedures how to become a

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Two great clubs, the 582-- person “Tropicana” lounge, where two professional stage shows are offered nightly,

serve the 10 decks.

Thomas, pleased to see 22 happy handicapped travel- lers moving effortlessly by wheelchairs on the 10 decks and companionways which are sloped rather than staired, reminded us all con- veniences for the handi- capped are provided in 11 large suites. Ten elevators

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How is it possible to record more than 100 per cent occupancy? Thomas said it was becoming more popular (and more econo mical) to house a family of

dining salons -ol_ today's _—and-the-rather more intimate-—four_or- four friends in-targe

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Miss Thomas described the profusion of mirrors and chandehers. i a_sub-

366-seat “Island in the Sun” lounge, are spacious and bubbly. In the Tropicana,

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But only seven-day crurses? In the Caribbean sea lanes originating at Miami, you may board Carnival’s Mardi Gras, and enjoy seven days on one cruise route. On return to Miami, your lug- gage is simply transferred to your cabin aboard the sister ship “Carnivale,” and you are off on another route in the Caribbean. New staff, new {nends, new shows and a big saving in air fare to enjoy two different Carib bean cruises.

Anything else, Miss Thomas? “Closed circuit TV in every cabin and honest-to- goodness ice cream cones on the Promenade deck!”

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