Next month, we’re booked on a 7-day cruise from Anchorage to Vancouver. The Coral Princess takes the Inside Passage south, stopping in Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan, and we’d like some input from seasoned Alaska cruisers. In Skagway, there are 40 shore excursions on the Princess list. In Juneau, there are 44. In Ketchikan, a mere… Continue reading Calling Alaska Cruise Veterans!
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A Little Privacy, a Lot of $$$
What price privacy? Lots of people go on cruises because they like the social atmosphere. New friends and new adventures. Lots of people like the idea of dining in a group. A chance for everyone to taste everybody else’s main course, perhaps. Not us. So when Crystal Cruises announced the opportunity for its passengers to… Continue reading A Little Privacy, a Lot of $$$
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
The Latest in Cruise Voluntourism
This weekend was a double whammy, of sorts. While catching up on some PVR-ed TV shows, we watched Sixty Minutes, a show we have not watched enough. One of the stories was about Elissa Montanti, a 57-year-old Staten Island woman who almost single handedly is trying to help kids who are physical victims of war… Continue reading The Latest in Cruise Voluntourism
New Ways to Fill Cruise Bucket
For Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, a Bucket List meant things like riding motorcycles on China’s Great Wall, laughing till they cried and kissing the most beautiful girl in the world (it turned out to be Nicholson’s on-screen granddaughter in the movie). For country singer Tim McGraw, it meant — in a song — riding… Continue reading New Ways to Fill Cruise Bucket