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My Top Ten Things I’d Like To Do Someday On A Cruise

My Top Ten Things I’d Like To Do Someday On A Cruise

You may remember that I recently decided to do a three part series on cruising top ten lists. Over the past week, I completed the first two posts in my series that covered my top ten favorite things about cruising and my top ten things I avoid when I cruise. I hope you [...]

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My Top Ten Things I Avoid When Cruising

My Top Ten Things I Avoid When Cruising

You may remember that I recently decided to do a three part series on cruising top ten lists. A few days ago I did the first post in my series that covered my top ten favorite things about cruising. I hope you enjoyed the first list.

Today, I continue this short top ten series [...]

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My Top Ten Things to Love About Cruising

My Top Ten Things to Love About Cruising

I have decided to start a short little series on some of my cruise top ten lists. Over the course of the next week, I hope to cover three top ten lists. The three planned top ten lists are: “My favorites Things”, “Things I Avoid” and “Things I’d Like to Try Someday”.

Today, [...]

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NCL’s New F3 Launches Will Create A Two Tiered Cruise Experience

NCL’s New F3 Launches Will Create A Two Tiered Cruise Experience

One of the most astounding details in from NCL’s announcements last week about their new “F3″ ships, is that they will include two or more public areas/bars that will require a cover charge or membership fee for entry.

One will be an ice bar, that is really more of an attraction than [...]

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Oasis of the Seas Takes Shipboard Entertainment to a New Dimension

Oasis of the Seas Takes Shipboard Entertainment to a New Dimension

The new ship being built for Royal Caribbean, Oasis of the Seas will feature a pool deck entertainment venue like nothing ever seen before on a cruise ship. Royal Caribbean ship designers have created the Aqua Theater for their new series of super-mega ships previously code named “Project Genesis.”

During the [...]

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Celebrity Eliminates Informal Dress Code

Celebrity Eliminates Informal Dress Code

I just confirmed via Celebrity’s Captains Club customer service desk that Celebrity will be dropping their “Informal” dress code starting with sailing departing after August 1st, 2008. A seven day cruise will now feature two formal nights and 5 casual nights. Longer sailings will still have three formal nights. Previously, Celebrity had [...]

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Don’t Miss the Boat - Arrive At Your Port City a Day Early

Don’t Miss the Boat - Arrive At Your Port City a Day Early

One of the most heartbreaking situations in which cruisers can find themselves is “missing the boat”. Cruisers can almost always avoid this situation by planning to stay in the port city the night before the cruise. If you arrive the day of your cruise you are depending on your airline, other [...]

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Yet Another Reason to Get a Passport

Yet Another Reason to Get a Passport

I just read another tragic post on one of the cruise chat rooms from a gentleman who was taking his first big trip of his life to celebrate a milestone anniversary with his wife. When they got to the pier they learned that the documents that they had believed to be their actual [...]

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Wow, Found a Great Web Site for Cruisers!!!

Wow, Found a Great Web Site for Cruisers!!!

I had a few of my fellow passengers for my upcoming Celebrity Summit cruise recommend this site. I visited it and can’t say enough good things about it. The site is Port Time.

On the website, if you select a port, such as Cabo San Lucas, you can see how many ships will [...]

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Smoking Poll Demonstrates The Cruiselines’ Conundrum

Smoking Poll Demonstrates The Cruiselines’ Conundrum

Thank you to all of our readers who responded in our smoking poll. The results demonstrate the conundrum in which the cruise lines find themselves. If they have more restrictive smoking policies they please non-smokers. If they restrict smoking more extensively they risk losing all smokers.

According to the American [...]

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