As custodian of the most regal of all ships in the cruising community for 50 years or more, Cunard has always more or less played by its own rules. It is, after all, British and nobody tells the Brits they have to fall in line by doing this or doing that. So when Cunard announced… Continue reading Royal Brides, Grooms for Cunard?
Celebrity pillows going 'green'
Of all the items we think about being in a landfill…pillows? That means it’s one more item for cruise lines to consider in their ongoing attempts to being environmentally responsible. So, about the pillows. A cruise line with 25,000 beds uses 50,000…and that’s when the customers don’t ask (blush) for an extra pillow. Obviously, pillows… Continue reading Celebrity pillows going 'green'
St. Kitts Report Sign of Times?
Sometimes, an idea begins to grow and take root in the unlikeliest of places. Like the isle of St. Kitts, a tiny tourist stop in the Caribbean Sea, just east of the Virgin Islands and due north of Venezuela. It was there that the St. Kitts government this week released travel statistics concerning both the… Continue reading St. Kitts Report Sign of Times?
Into The Heads at the Top
It’s hard for anybody to get into the heads of the people who run cruise lines to find out “What are they thinking?” Unless “anybody” is USA Today, whose cruise writers Gene Sloan and Veronica Gould Stoddart had both the foresight and the opportunity to spend an hour with five CEOs/Presidents from the cruise industry.… Continue reading Into The Heads at the Top
Cruising's Newsy Norwegian
While we were away — Alaska, now that you ask — the busiest newsmaker in the world of cruising has been Norwegian. Even everybody’s favorite whipping boy, the Epic, was in on the action. As everyone knows, there will never be another Epic, which some of us lament, but there will be a Breakaway and… Continue reading Cruising's Newsy Norwegian