If you are cruising this weekend, contact your cruise line or travel agent for the latest itinerary changes due to Tropical Storm Noel in the Caribbean. Carnival and Royal Caribbean have posted notices on their sites, and NCL is sure to follow soon. If the ship is delayed returning to its home port, [...]
Norwegian Cruise Line’s Freestyle Cruising and Your Cruise Your Way cruise blog both think you should be able to do whatever on a cruise. We both agree that cruising shouldn’t be a rigid schedule of cruise line mandates about how you will travel. NCL has taken still another step toward that end by [...]
By adding the new Diamond Member tier to their already lucrative World Club Programme, Cunard Line is reaffirming its loyalty to frequent cruisers, rewarding past guests based on number of past voyages and days at sea. The enhancements comes at a time when Cunard is already steaming at full speed in popularity with the [...]
MSC Cruises announced today that its largest ship to be built is on schedule and making great strides in reaching its launch date in December of 2008 at Aker Yards in France. She was recently transferred to the lower dry dock on Sept. 1, and continues to take the shape of its designed [...]
While striving to become one of the bigger players in the world’s cruise market with the building of its two new ships, MSC Fantasia and MSC Splendida, MSC Cruises has taken great strides to be mindful of the environment as well. MSC Cruises is introducing Comfort Class, its way to safeguard the environment [...]
The real Queen Victoria was a virtual collection of firsts. She was the first of the modern day monarchs, having a telephone, riding a train and even playing host to a World’s Fair! She also had the longest reign, highlighted by England’s prevalence in the Industrial Revolution and eventually into a [...]
If you’ve cruised before, or are in the process of researching your initial venture at sea, chances are you’ve already decided cruising may be a better vacation value than a land based visit to a city, or number of cities, and staying in a hotel. That being the case, if you’re going to [...]
