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News item: It's estimated that more than one-billion people will tune in for this year's Olympic Games in the host city of London, and Celebrity Cruises has arranged the rare opportunity for guests sailing on its modern luxury fleet to be among them. Question: Does Jacques Rogge know about this? Monsieur Rogge is the [...]
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When you get to a certain age — and sometimes even before then — one of the things that becomes important is getting a deal. A bargain. A discount cruise. In fairness, this fact of life often is precipitated by having a fixed income with no realistic hope that it'll ever go up. Now, AARP [...]
Many cruise ships try to accommodate kids. The cruisers of tomorrow, they're called, part of the families of today. It's becoming much more than a way to give the parents a break from trying to entertain their young ones, but that's always part of the equation, too. We don't know about you, but we [...]
Photo by Frank Kovalchek You just never know how going on a cruise is going to change your life. For example, we never imagined that in the first week of March — when most people were tuning into their source of sports for the final stages of basketball and hockey, or the start of baseball [...]
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Do you ever wonder if Steve Jobs could have iMagined the depth of his iCreations? Just when the world has become accustomed to the iMac, the iPhone, the iPod, the iPad and the iWorld, along comes the iConcierge. This creation is the work of Norwegian Cruise Line, for use on its Epic, the flagship of [...]
The news yesterday that Royal Caribbean is exercising its option to build another new ship again begs the question: Has the cruise industry discovered the customer’s tolerance for big ships? The same cruise line that owns the two biggest ships “of the Seas”, the mighty Oasis and the equally mighty Allure. They carry about 6,000 [...]
The last time we cruised out of Galveston, we were impressed that the hotel we booked for the night before the cruise allowed us to leave our rental car in the hotel lot for five days, until our return. Just a little extra. There’s a hotel in Seattle that is also catering to people who [...]
So much is made of the sizes of cruise ships, isn’t it? Some cruisers think biggest is best. Some think smaller is better because of its intimacy. There is, naturally, no correct answer. In reading about cruise ships, we came across an interesting measurement. Take the size of the ship (measured in “gross tonnage”) and [...]
“We are committed to Southampton as our main base, but Liverpool is our spiritual home.” Those are the words of Peter Shanks, Cunard’s President, after word leaked in the Liverpool Daily Post that the Queen Mary 2 may — that’s “may” — start sailing from Liverpool to New York on a one-off, sporadic basis. The [...]
Is biggest best when it comes to cruise ships? The answer will always be subjective, of course, but if you’re among the cruisers who like big ships and the frills and anonymity that comes with them, and if you’re interested in trying to catch a last-minute deal, read on. The seven biggest ships in the [...]