The Modern Problem Of Picking A Port

With each day, and each violent activity often linked to terrorism, reasonable people who like to travel get even more reasonable. Or concerned. Or paranoid. Or even scared. Pick an adverb. The uncertainty of traveling abroad — be it in one direction to Europe or in the other to Asia — understandably may leave North… Continue reading The Modern Problem Of Picking A Port

Princess, Texans Cater To Kids

Before every football game, there’s a coin toss. Before every charitable activity in business, there may also be a “coin toss.” Heads, it’s good for the charity. Tails, it’s good for business. For Princess Cruises, if there was such a coin toss it was…heads wins, and tails wins. The football analogy is because last week… Continue reading Princess, Texans Cater To Kids

Jewel Shining Light in Houston

There was a celebration in Texas on the weekend when a 9-year-old ship entered a 100-year-old waterway to kick off a cruise experience that’s in its infancy. Houston has a new cruise ship. This one is called the Jewel, as in Norwegian Jewel, and after what it’s been through lately it is a jewel. It’s… Continue reading Jewel Shining Light in Houston

Polishing Up A 9-year-old Cruise Ship

Cruise lines are always striving to make ships the same but different. Adding the best of a new ship to an existing ship makes the old gal unique. Okay, the older gal…since ships always go by "she." That brings up the Norwegian Jewel. The Jewel is nine years old, probably about halftime in the game… Continue reading Polishing Up A 9-year-old Cruise Ship

Cruise Lines, Passengers In A Fog In Texas

  The current four-letter word for cruise-ship passengers in Texas is F-O-G. Ordinarily, it's a three-letter word that nobody on a cruise ship cares much about… Until your ship can't leave and consequently that Caribbean port you badly wanted to visit is now off the itinerary. Until your ship can't return when it's scheduled to… Continue reading Cruise Lines, Passengers In A Fog In Texas