Anybody who has been on more than a few cruises is inevitably going to be asked: “What’s your favorite…ship…destination…cruise…port…activity…restaurant…?” There are no correct answers, given that everybody’s cruising taste is different in every area. Sometimes, it’s incredible how much stock all of us put in recommendations of others, qualified or not. Cruise passengers pay… Continue reading Cruise Critic Editors' Best Of…Cruising
Tag: Holland America
Frequency of lightning at sea
Friends and cruise writing colleagues of ours, Harry and Joan Shattuck of Houston, just returned from two weeks on the Nieuw Amsterdam, Holland America’s flagship. During their cruise, the ship was hit by lightning, which you would think happens about as often as planes are hit by lightning. Almost never, right? Yesterday, Cruise Fever reported… Continue reading Frequency of lightning at sea
Black Sea Off Limits For Cruisers
There’s fighting going on a world away and you never think it will affect you…and then it does. Maybe you’re scheduled to cruise into the Black Sea, for instance. As a long-ago U.S. President would say: “Not gonna happen.” Cruising into the Black Sea is becoming more rare all the time. The latest cruise lines… Continue reading Black Sea Off Limits For Cruisers
New Threats To Cruise Passengers
This is one of those stories we don’t want to tell, and shouldn’t have to tell, but there is really no choice. It’s about terrorists. You know how your life has changed when boarding planes, with security personnel checking everything but the dirt under your fingernails? You know how when you’re walking the streets of… Continue reading New Threats To Cruise Passengers
The Vancouver Cruise Experience
If there’s a more beautiful arrival port than Vancouver — this side of Venice — we haven’t seen it. The one time we arrived at the Port of Vancouver, on the Coral Princess, it was breathtaking. Considering that we once lived there, that says something. Breathtaking, until we disembarked. Then, we were out of breath… Continue reading The Vancouver Cruise Experience