Every time we have been on a cruise, we’ve made friends with crew members. Sometimes, we exchange contact information, promising to keep in touch. Almost always, when we disembark, it’s the last we see of each other. One of our new friends invited us to visit him in Turkey. Maybe we will. Another said we… Continue reading Cruise Crews Enter Epic Era
Tag: Cruise ships
Notes on the Boats
THE RIGHT PRICE…………….see Thursday’s blog (July 29) * * * Latest port to look into the possibility of cruise ships…Brownsville, Texas. That’s the place where two hurricanes/tropical storms have made landfall this year, but that’s life in any of the Gulf of Mexico port cities and towns, of which there are four that are home… Continue reading Notes on the Boats
Celebrity Cruising, Discount Prices
Normally, we feature a kind of “deal-of-the-week” on Saturdays to headline our “Notes on the Boats” blog. The deal we found this week can’t wait. It has to be booked by tomorrow (July 30). That doesn’t leave much time — sorry about that — for you to make a decision. But if you’re thinking about… Continue reading Celebrity Cruising, Discount Prices
Blokes and Folks who like Liverpool
There must be something in our lineage that connects us to seaports because we might be the only worldly (?) travelers around who raved about visiting Liverpool and Marseilles, port cities that tourists love to hate. So we read with a certain wistfulness — if anybody dares to read with wistfulness the ramblings of Carnival… Continue reading Blokes and Folks who like Liverpool
One Take on the Epic vs the Oasis
Canada’s most accomplished and most credible cruise writer, our colleague Phil Reimer, has written a particularly compelling column for his readers this weekend. He’s making a first-hand comparison between the much-ballyhooed Epic (above) from Norwegian Cruise Lines, and the somewhat-forgotten Oasis of the Seas (below), known around the world as Royal Caribbean’s and the biggest… Continue reading One Take on the Epic vs the Oasis