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Article: Humble beginnings: many of today's top cruise lines grew from hardscrabble roots.(CRUISING'S CLASSIC PAST)
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- Cruise Travel
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Ever wonder, when you are booking a cabin on a Carnival ship, why there is an "Empress" deck? Or why for years staunchly British Princess Cruises featured an Italian dining room? Or where "Costa" got its name? Although these three huge firms are now among the proud members of the "World's Leading Cruise Lines" group, they, and others, still have their little quirks that give silent testimony to the humble beginnings of modern cruising.
Today the major cruise lines boast of the unique and revolutionary features they offer passengers, but it was not always that way. Once pleasure cruising was a place where old ocean liners went to die. The great trans-Atlantic ...