What’s in a name? If the name is DreamWorks, just split it. The “Dream”…”Works.” As far as Royal Caribbean cruise ships are, it sure does. Last week, Shrek and Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda expanded their families. Or maybe Royal Caribbean expanded its family. The first time the famous DreamWorks characters appeared on a cruise… Continue reading Dream Partnership of Royalty
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Cruises Galore On Sale Next Week
Think Black Friday in America. Boxing Day in Canada. The best sale, ever, at your favorite department store…except that this “department store” sells cruises. This is what will happen next week and — like the World Series, falling leaves and Halloween — it happens every October. For those of us who like taking long rides… Continue reading Cruises Galore On Sale Next Week
Celebrity, Wine the Perfect Match
As wine lovers go, we don’t think we’re especially HM, even though we did once have TWO sommeliers at our TABLE while on a cruise ship, the Celebrity Millennium. At the other end of the wine bottle, we were on a Princess cruise where there was ONE sommelier for the entire ship! The point here… Continue reading Celebrity, Wine the Perfect Match
Special Touch for Breakaway's Bow
If you don’t know the difference between Picasso and Monet, or between Van Gogh and Rembrandt, it’s possible (probable?) that you don’t know much about Peter Max. This is your chance to find out. At Norwegian Cruise Lines, Peter Max is the artist who’s been hired to paint NCL’s newest ship, the Breakaway. But don’t… Continue reading Special Touch for Breakaway's Bow
Freedom Stifled by a Storm
Friends of ours were on a cruise ship in rough weather in August and the environment was an education. They learned about the Beaufort Scale, a 200-year-old measurement used for storms at sea. It goes from 1 to 12 and, somewhere between Antwerp and Bergen in the North Sea, their Princess ship was in an… Continue reading Freedom Stifled by a Storm