We’d been gone a long time. Too long. Nobody who enjoys cruise ships as much as we do should ever have gone years between cruises, and we did. Norwegian brought us back. Two words was all it took to get us back on board — freestyle dining. NCL calls it Freestyle Cruising now (the capitals,… Continue reading Norwegian stepping up to the plate
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Cruise Line's New Meaning for 'Allure'
It was three years ago, in Las Vegas. We’d bought discount tickets to see George Strait at the MGM Grand, because we’d never seen him before and everybody should. Opening for Straight was Ronnie Milsap, an old country crooner known for overcoming blindness whom we’d also never seen — and were glad that we did.… Continue reading Cruise Line's New Meaning for 'Allure'
Better Chance to Avoid Dying Abroad
The front-page news in yesterday’s edition of USA Today was “Traveling abroad’s top risk: Roads” with a subhead that read “One American dies every 36 hours.” The story is that traffic accidents are the No. 1 killer of healthy Americans traveling abroad…in other words, deaths not attributed to natural causes. There is a (partial) solution.… Continue reading Better Chance to Avoid Dying Abroad
Chasing The Sky's Best Cruise Prices
I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to find the “right deal” on a cruise. I was quite specific about what we were looking for — specific time, specific port, specific ship. Since it’s only a few weeks before that “specific date” it seemed reasonable that I would find a “last-minute deal.” Here were… Continue reading Chasing The Sky's Best Cruise Prices
Cruise Ship Coolness Concern to Chile
Our colleague Phil Reimer, whose Ports and Bows columns and blogs are a must-read for cruisers, had an especially interesting commentary on his website yesterday. It was about gambling in international waters. Here’s what he had to say: I was sailing along the coast off Chile about five years ago when all of sudden the… Continue reading Cruise Ship Coolness Concern to Chile