Question: How can seniors avoid that terrible curse of the elderly wrinkles? Answer: Take off their glasses. Ah, seniors. We are the butt of thousands of Internet jokes. We are disregarded by marketers obsessed with the 25 to 49 crowd. Even cruise ships, once the haven of the nearly elderly, have become playgrounds for… Continue reading Cruising's Not All About Luring Youth
Tag: Oceania
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
Puerto Rico Plans to Market Cruisers
News item: Puerto Rico is doubling the number of hotels, and doubling the number of hotel rooms, over the next decade because of an annual increase in tourist traffic of three per cent (2013) that is topping out at 1.6 million. For the cruise community, Puerto Rico is San Juan. In a one-year period, San… Continue reading Puerto Rico Plans to Market Cruisers
Oceania Ships Have The Same Look Now
Two years ago in the Mediterranean, we were fortunate to be on the Oceania Riviera for one of its first cruises, with a stop in Barcelona for the christening and official naming ceremony. This is a smallish ship by ocean-going standards — just 1,250 passengers — and, by any objective cruiser's estimation, the Riviera is… Continue reading Oceania Ships Have The Same Look Now
Oceania President Sharing His Favorite Cruises
If you've been an avid reader of Cruising Done Right, then you know who Kunal Kamlani is. You may even feel like you know him. Maybe you do. Maybe you've met him, as we did for an enlightening interview on the Riviera that…well, you remember. Nice man. Smart. Personable. Articulate. Time for everybody. Rose from… Continue reading Oceania President Sharing His Favorite Cruises