The Carnival Miracle will be sailing 8-day cruises to the Caribbean and the Bahamas out of New York in the spring of 2012. Yes, that is next spring, isn’t it? We don’t know about you but “8-day cruises” and “Caribbean” and “Bahamas” are not what excites us about this news. It’s the “New York.” We… Continue reading The 'Magic' of Going to New York
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When Liverpool Becomes Dublin
One day last month, passengers on a cruise ship named Boudicca went to bed one night expecting they would wake up in Liverpool and be properly disembarked. They woke up in Dublin. They were blown away. Literally. High winds forced the Boudicca, from the Fred.Olsen Cruise Lines fleet of four, to delay and eventually cancel… Continue reading When Liverpool Becomes Dublin
Deadly to be the 'Late Passengers'
Only once can we recall coming close to missing a cruise ship in a foreign port. Given that we’ve been at this game for a while, you’d think it would have been in the early years when we were cruise rookies. Not so fast. It was on our most recent cruise, just a few weeks… Continue reading Deadly to be the 'Late Passengers'
Inaccurate Criticism of Cruise Ships
This is an excerpt of a reader’s comment about cruising, a comment we stumbled across on the Internet: “Cruisers are not aware of the acute environmental damage that they are doing to water and air sheds. Cruise ships are small mobile cities that dump their sewage into oceans and spew toxic emissions into the air.”… Continue reading Inaccurate Criticism of Cruise Ships
This Casino a Winner for Everyone
Like most people who frequent casinos on cruise ships, we’ve had some luck. Some of it good. Some bad. When we hear about a change in procedure involving cruise-ship casinos, it catches our interest. Like this weekend, for instance. There was a story from Europe that the government of Gibraltar is now allowing cruise ships… Continue reading This Casino a Winner for Everyone