News item: The Colucci family books a cruise. A dozen days before departure, 5-year-old Nicolas Colucci is found to have liver cancer and needs surgery. Family did not sign up for travel insurance and asks the cruise line (Norwegian) about re-scheduling the cruise. Norwegian says no. This is a tough one. This is also extremely… Continue reading Family, cruise line: heart-wrenching story
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Dr. Seuss and Friends Carnival Specialty
Bookville, the first thing you see upon entering Carnival's Camp Ocean. All the Seuss books are there but don't try to remove any…a friendly alarm lets you know! Somewhere near that Hat, there's a Cat…and a place to cuddle up with a good book. That famous Cat In The Hat leads the parade down the promenade… Continue reading Dr. Seuss and Friends Carnival Specialty
Freestyle Flashback: What's Up?
Here's an item that strikes at the very heart of our love of cruising. Dinner reservations on Norwegian. As you may have read here before, we came back to cruising because Norwegian was the first cruise line NOT to insist on fixed dining. No traditional times. No identical dining partners, night after night. All of… Continue reading Freestyle Flashback: What's Up?
Allure Of The Seas: Captain Tore
You step onto the "biggest cruise ship in the world" and — to use Royal Caribbean vernacular, you are WOW-ed. That's what the majority of around 6,000 people experience every week, when the Allure of the Seas sail out of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale if they're seeing the big ship for the first… Continue reading Allure Of The Seas: Captain Tore
Carnival Live Surprising Performers
This was Day 2 of an 8-day Carnival Freedom cruise and Jim Berra, the line's Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer, was talking about Jennifer Hudson. It's entirely possible that Jim Berra never thought his name would be linked to Jennifer Hudson's, but this was that day. The reason was Carnival Live, the concert series… Continue reading Carnival Live Surprising Performers