News item: Carnival Live will return in 2016. This is good news. Carnival cruisers clearly enjoyed paying modest fees to attend the concerts on ships while in port. Entertainers must have liked the idea of flying into a port, performing for a night or two, and flying home — or they wouldn’t keep coming… Continue reading Carnival Live — Who’s Next?
Category: Ports
The Venice Cruise Controversy
One of the cruise stories that just refuses to go away is Venice. Here’s a recent headline from The Daily Telegraph, in London: “Giant cruise ships ‘crushing the life out of Venice.’” This is a story that’s been going on for years, and there’s no end in sight. What it boils down to is this:… Continue reading The Venice Cruise Controversy
Friday File: Día de Los Muertos
If you’ve ever disembarked from a cruise ship in Mexico at this time of year, then you know what that means. Maybe you know even if you’ve never been in Mexico on “Day of the Dead” weekend, which oddly enough coincides with Halloween. To the Mexican people, this is a far more serious time —… Continue reading Friday File: Día de Los Muertos
Carnival Ships Join China Surge
There was a time, not that long ago, that the only places you could take Carnival ships was from a port city in North America. The one caveat was when the world’s biggest cruise line built a new ship in Europe, and it had to get to North America by crossing the Atlantic. Then Carnival… Continue reading Carnival Ships Join China Surge
Eighth Cruise Wonder, Anyone?
A writer for Conde Nast Traveler, Ondine Cohane, has produced the “Seven Cruise Wonders of the World.” It’s a clever idea and, like all such lists, highly subjective. Picking up on it, Princess Cruises now has a contest for cruisers to add No. 8. The top prize is to sail away to one of the… Continue reading Eighth Cruise Wonder, Anyone?