Category: Cruises

All of my regular readers know that cruise ships play a significant role in my life, both in professional and recreational terms. I sell cruises, I work on cruise ships and I take cruises simply for pleasure. The tragedy still unfolding in Italy is obviously on my mind a...

On this blog, I seldom mention the fact that I’m a cruise consultant with Expedia CruiseShipCenters. BUT, I just got an email from Celebrity that I have to pass on. The Mediterranean is hot right now as a travel destination, and prices are getting quite high. For the next...

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I was on the Port of San Diego Web site today to read about their new cruise terminal. I got side-tracked by the Harbor Police blotter, and was more than a little surprised to see week after week, multiple “incidents of abandoned ammunition” at the San Diego airport. Huh???...

When I began writing this, it was 05:30 am on the 21st, and I had just watched Holland America’s new ship Nieuw Amsterdam sail into the channel leading to Port Everglades. I went back to bed, though – it’s now 07:10 and I’m watching the sun come up over...

November 18: After a tantalizing but very brief look at Grand Turk last week, I was even more excited about donning scuba gear for a look at the world-famous coral reef. The Carnival Liberty approaches the Grand Turk dock just in front of us, at 10:18 am. It’s a...

November 17: Our day at Half Moon Cay last week was excellent, though marred by there being 2 ships, overcrowding all the facilities. We were looking forward to seeing it with fewer people. This is a typical stairway on the Carnival Destiny We still find the interior of the...

November 16: We had no firm plans for Nassau, but thought that we’d go over to Atlantis and have a look to start. Information that we found online about day-pass options at Atlantis was contradictory so we weren’t sure how that would turn out. Another beauiful Caribbean sunrise as...

November 15: Today we began the next stage of our adventure, boarding the Carnival Destiny in Miami. I chose this cruise for business reasons. There are a lot of different opinions about Carnival, and since they’re often very cheap, I need to know what a cruise with Carnival is...

November 13: Today was disembarkation day at Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, and on to the next stage of our adventure. I spent a while this morning getting a few more photos of the Noordam. The hallway outside our cabin – our door is the 2nd on the left, close...