Tag: Celebrity Infinity

Ship to Shore Partnership Helps

Where there's a bajillion of something, there's a market to be tapped. There is, everyone would agree, a bajillion cell phones, and AT&T has combined with Royal Caribbean to tap into that market at sea. Everybody who cruises knows how expensive communication is when you're on a ship. Poor Internet connections at 75 cents a… Continue reading Ship to Shore Partnership Helps

Solstice Surgery To Make It All Better

  When a cruise ship visits Vancouver, the jewel that sits between ocean and mountains in British Columbia, it must sail under the Lions Gate Bridge and into Burrard Inlet. No ship has ever been too big to fit under the Lions Gate… Not so fast. Celebrity's Solstice will become the biggest ship to visit… Continue reading Solstice Surgery To Make It All Better

Carnival in Hot Cruise Waters Again

The latest problems for Carnival make one thing abundantly clear — the cruise line must do something. Fast. The breakdown of the four-year-old Dream in the Eastern Caribbean this week is the latest in a series of mishaps, and it's turning Carnival into a bad joke. By extension, to cynics it's making a bad joke… Continue reading Carnival in Hot Cruise Waters Again

Catalina Island and Queen Mary

  It happens that we have good friends who live in Rancho Palos Verdes, just south of Los Angeles. It also happens that many years ago we had close friends who lived in the same suburb, which is not far from Catalina Island and even closer to the Queen Mary, which you'd think would be… Continue reading Catalina Island and Queen Mary