News item: Dancing With The Stars will continue to be featured on Holland America ships through the 2015-16 cruise season. Well, there’s a surprise. ABC’s immensely popular TV series first sailed with Holland America after the cruise line cleverly made a deal to launch “Dancing With The Stars: At Sea” in 2013. For two years… Continue reading DWTS and HA: Shall We Dance?
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Why Cruise Samplers Are Good
Short cruises can be two, three, maybe four days long? Why bother, you ask? It’s a question we’re often asked…probably in part because we generally go on cruises of a week or longer. Having said that, we did once take a three-day cruise to the Bahamas on the Norwegian Sky, just because we wanted a… Continue reading Why Cruise Samplers Are Good
Ebola, cruising and questions
Anybody with a modicum of travel sense and even a passing interest in current events knew this weekend was coming. Anybody with a hint of common sense knows the question was just hanging there: “When will ebola affect cruising?” This weekend, it did. There has not, at least so far, been a cruise passenger with… Continue reading Ebola, cruising and questions
Big Doin's In Big D On Sunday
If you’re watching the Cowboys and the Giants from Texas on Sunday, there’s a couple of performers at the “palace in Dallas” (actually, Arlington) that you probably won’t see. Both of them have to do with cruising (actually, Carnival). One is Rascal Flatts. The award-winning country band is doing a pre-game show. The Carnival connection… Continue reading Big Doin's In Big D On Sunday
Jewel Shining Light in Houston
There was a celebration in Texas on the weekend when a 9-year-old ship entered a 100-year-old waterway to kick off a cruise experience that’s in its infancy. Houston has a new cruise ship. This one is called the Jewel, as in Norwegian Jewel, and after what it’s been through lately it is a jewel. It’s… Continue reading Jewel Shining Light in Houston