Bye-bye To Last-Minute Deals?

News item: Royal Caribbean is attempting to refuse having last-minute discounts. This could be a game-changer for all cruise lines. Lots of people hang around until the “last minute” before making a decision about which cruise to take. When they get a killer deal, they tell the world, including passengers who paid much more for… Continue reading Bye-bye To Last-Minute Deals?

Making Amends For Dynamic Dining

Has anybody ever given you $100 just for having gone on a cruise ship? A thank-you for your comments, however critical they may have been? A thank-you even if you didn’t make any comments? That’s what Royal Caribbean is doing. Anybody who sailed on Quantum of the Seas, which will be six months old in… Continue reading Making Amends For Dynamic Dining

Panama Canal A Place To Grow!

Once again this week, we became advocates for taking a Panama Canal cruise, as we have been since our inaugural cruise across the Isthmus of Panama in 2010. This time, it was reassuring friends who leave on a Panama Canal cruise today that they would never regret it. On our trip, construction was underway for… Continue reading Panama Canal A Place To Grow!

Carnival Tunes In Top Vocal Group

  Come Sunday night, a lot of us will be watching the Academy of Country Music Awards because, well, we like them. Also because it always seems to be more about the music than the awards. Enter Carnival. The world’s biggest cruise line is writing a huge success story with its Carnival Live series, in… Continue reading Carnival Tunes In Top Vocal Group

The City Many Canadians Hate To Love

Vancouver has this reputation among many Canadians. They’re envious or jealous or just plain angry about their western countrymen. It starts with the weather the far-westerners enjoy when the rest of the country is in a deep freeze. And now this. There will be cruise ships in Vancouver in December. This will be the latest… Continue reading The City Many Canadians Hate To Love