Cruise For Football Fan With Heart

While everybody’s talking about deflated footballs, in advance of the Super Bowl, are you interested in a tale of inflated sportsmanship? If so, read on… After the Seattle Seahawks won their trip to Phoenix for Sunday’s big game, one of their fans (PJ LeDorze) noticed a disconsolate Green Bay Packers fan outside Seattle’s CenturyLink Field.… Continue reading Cruise For Football Fan With Heart

Sharpening Culinary Skills At Oceania

It’s more than two years since we experienced cooking at sea (and we lived to write about it) and, at the time, Oceania’s Director of Culinary Enrichment speculated what her upscale cruise line was doing would continue to grow. Kathryn Kelly also said that she believed in five years only Oceania would be teaching customers… Continue reading Sharpening Culinary Skills At Oceania

'Unusual' Remark From Florida Cruise

On one of our latest cruises, to the Caribbean, we met a friendly young couple from California. They'd flown to Florida on the dreaded "red-eye" and were in the process of enjoying their first Royal Caribbean cruise, on Allure of the Seas. During a shore excursion in Jamaica, being friendly, they'd met some other passengers.… Continue reading 'Unusual' Remark From Florida Cruise

City By The Bay, Concerts By The Bay

In San Francisco, there's a lot of optimism about cruising. In September, the new James R. Herman Cruise Terminal will welcome its first ship and, the optimists hope, open the door to a new era of cruising for the city by the bay. The first ship will be the Crown Princess. It will be followed… Continue reading City By The Bay, Concerts By The Bay

An Assessment of Cruise Deals Posted

When is a "cruise deal" a good deal? If you book a cruise based on somebody's suggestion or pitch that it's a bargain, and the price goes up after that, then you got a deal. Just like anything else that you buy…you want to try and catch it at its low, low price. Every day,… Continue reading An Assessment of Cruise Deals Posted