For anybody who has ever sailed on her, the “E” in Epic has always stood — unofficially — for “entertainment.” Cruising is an industry that is all about “firsts” but in the big picture — the Epic picture if you will — time dulls the memories of which cruise line or ship first did this… Continue reading Epic Entertainment’s New Future
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Black Sea Off Limits For Cruisers
There’s fighting going on a world away and you never think it will affect you…and then it does. Maybe you’re scheduled to cruise into the Black Sea, for instance. As a long-ago U.S. President would say: “Not gonna happen.” Cruising into the Black Sea is becoming more rare all the time. The latest cruise lines… Continue reading Black Sea Off Limits For Cruisers
New Threats To Cruise Passengers
This is one of those stories we don’t want to tell, and shouldn’t have to tell, but there is really no choice. It’s about terrorists. You know how your life has changed when boarding planes, with security personnel checking everything but the dirt under your fingernails? You know how when you’re walking the streets of… Continue reading New Threats To Cruise Passengers
The Vancouver Cruise Experience
If there’s a more beautiful arrival port than Vancouver — this side of Venice — we haven’t seen it. The one time we arrived at the Port of Vancouver, on the Coral Princess, it was breathtaking. Considering that we once lived there, that says something. Breathtaking, until we disembarked. Then, we were out of breath… Continue reading The Vancouver Cruise Experience
New York: 'Hello, Quantum of the Seas'
It was just over a year ago that the world was “introduced” to Quantum of the Seas in New York. The quotation marks are because what those of us who were in Manhattan that day saw was conceptual. Drawings, artistic conceptions, videos and promises by Royal Caribbean CEO Richard Fain that it would be the most technologically… Continue reading New York: 'Hello, Quantum of the Seas'