In this age of alleged profiling, is there anything that would profile the stereotypical cruise passenger more than a knitting cruise? Yes…knit one, purl two…and how many people today have a clue what that means? Apparently, quite a few. There is a trend to knitting among young folks, they say, and if you are… Continue reading In Stitches on the River…
Category: People
An Unlikely Home for Dean Bailey
Dean Bailey is from Great Britain, of Jamaican parents, lives in Hungary and spends his work days on the high seas in whatever country his Royal Caribbean ship is visiting. Home is Budapest, a city he once rejected as a place to live because of "cold weather' and "language." So what took him to Budapest?… Continue reading An Unlikely Home for Dean Bailey
Royal Caribbean — No Gamble Here
Employees in the cruise industry know you can go from the bottom to the top if you play your cards right, and nobody knows that better than Dean Bailey. He is part of the management team in Royal Caribbean, most recently as hotel director on Explorer of the Seas. In the beginning, he was a… Continue reading Royal Caribbean — No Gamble Here
It's a ship's life out there
Sometimes cruise ships can be like convicts. They have a lot of aliases. It's not criminal for ships to undergo name changes, although sometimes it might seem criminal for a great old ship to become known as something else, and something else… Like the Song Of Norway. One of the people we encountered told us… Continue reading It's a ship's life out there
Long Cruise…Short List of Passengers
Not long ago we read about a passenger who went on a "Love Boat" cruise..to 18 countries…on a ship that carries just 710 passengers…for 87 days. This was on a P&O ship, the Adonia, and it prompted us to see what the ship is currently offering in theway of a cruise where so few people… Continue reading Long Cruise…Short List of Passengers