While you can’t visit the Alps, Grand Canyon or Yellowstone Park by cruise ship, many of the world’s most intriguing places are best explored by waterborne conveyance. The perfection of a cruise is that when you travel by ship you can be as enriched and fulfilled as you desire, or pursue each day at a [...]
06 September
At the end of the cruise we invariably pick the “best port” of our voyage, the one where we had the most fun, a place that fulfilled our fantasies. And, there are some ports of call so special you never forget them. Sometimes it’s an extraordinary shore excursion, in other instances it’s breathtaking [...]
09 May
Whenever I encounter someone who proclaims “I love to travel but I wouldn’t be caught dead on a cruise ship!!”, my response is “I have a ship for you!” Then I steer them towards small ships where they will encounter nary a typical cruise ship activity like formal nights, floor shows, [...]
10 April
Within memory we haven’t witnessed political unrest, crime and natural disasters impacting the cruise industry to the degree it is now. From rioting and political instability in the middle-East/Africa to crime in Mexico and Japan’s horrific earthquake, tsunami and potential nuclear disaster, itineraries on three continents have been changed and port calls canceled which is [...]
15 March
Guest bloggers Arline and Sam Bleecker explore the idea of spending months at sea and let you decide: would you love or hate a world cruise?
When Lupe King stepped aboard Cunard’s newly minted Queen Elizabeth in
New York for its maiden world voyage in January, not only was it the
beginning of the ship’s global service but [...]
07 March
Due to the escalating violence in Egypt and for the safety of our guests, MSC Cruises has decided to alter the upcoming calls of MSC Magnifica and MSC Splendida at Alexandria on Sunday, January 30 and Monday, January 31.
Instead, MSC Magnifica will call at Limassol, Cyprus and Haifa, Israel on Sunday, January 30 [...]
28 January
While you can’t visit the Alps, Grand Canyon or Yellowstone Park by cruise ship, many of the world’s most intriguing places are best explored by waterborne conveyance. The perfection of a cruise is that when you travel by ship you can be as enriched and fulfilled as you desire, or pursue each day at a [...]
10 January
Giant waves, loosing power, broken down cruise ships …. with three mishaps in the last few weeks you may think this is a new trend. But it really isn’t. Things happen in threes? I don’t know. If you follow the cruise industry for any length of time you’ll know that “ship happens” and the tab [...]
16 December
Don’t get me wrong: I love the Caribbean, especially in January. But it’s a big planet and there are regions best visited by cruise ship. While I prefer to visit most of Europe on my own (six hours in Florence or Rome?), my most memorable cruises were in Hawaii, the Baltic and Greek [...]
07 July
Cruising aboard a luxury ship is the sort of rarefied travel experience most of us can only fantasize about. There are only a few cruise lines – the priciest afloat – where one finds caviar and bubbly served before dinner by a white-glove butler or very seasoned room steward. Men in black tie and women in [...]
01 June
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