A cruise line that’s unknown to many may have an impact on the prices we pay for cruising over the months ahead. Starting tomorrow, Fred.Olsen Cruise Lines begins charging a fuel surcharge for guests on its four ships, all with a capacity between 800 and 1,350 guests. Imitation being the greatest form of flattery, will… Continue reading The Crude Impact on Cruising
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The Aquatic Highway, Atlantic to Pacific
ABOARD THE CELEBRITY MILLENNIUM — Reflections on the waters of the Panama Canal (add it to your bucket list, please): • The three pilots and crew that boarded the ship on the Atlantic entrance were changed for a Pacific crew about halfway across the country, at Gamboa. There was one exception. Celebrity lucked out in… Continue reading The Aquatic Highway, Atlantic to Pacific
Last of the Locks in Panama
ABOARD THE CELEBRITY MILLENNIUM — Have you any idea what it feels like to be four stories up at ground level? Right there on the other side of the railing is grass. Also railway tracks. And trains. And the bottom of the hull of a huge ship, just 50 yards away. And workers, at eye… Continue reading Last of the Locks in Panama
The Ongoing Ride to the Pacific
ON BOARD THE CELEBRITY MILLENNIUM — The longest stretch of the Panama Canal, a stretch that cruise ship employees have been known to call affectionately “a day in the ditch,” was also the most difficult terrain to cross when it was built a century ago. Think turn a mountainside into a man-made lake, with what… Continue reading The Ongoing Ride to the Pacific
A Celebrity Sibling Moment
On Board the Celebrity Millennium — At 10:52 this morning, thousands of people on two boats, people who had never met and who likely never would meet, spent a few minutes waving at each other across the water that felt about the width of a football field, from one Celebrity cruise ship to another. For… Continue reading A Celebrity Sibling Moment