Server Crash

Unfortunately, we lost a server drive this evening and have had to restart with some data backups from this morning. I don’t believe any data was lost, however, if you registered a new account here at Cruise Talk Central today, there is a likely chance that the account was not recovered in the process [...]

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New Tipping Policy Page

Here at Cruise Talk Central, we like to make cruise planning as easy as possible for all our readers. In response to a request from our readers we’ve now added a page that contains the tipping policy information from most of the major cruise lines. In summary, most cruise [...]

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Announcing The Cruise Talk Central Forum

Cruise Talk Central is happy to announce the launch of our Cruise Talk Central Forum.
In the past year or two, we have resisted adding a forum simply because its been done before and we don’t really want to “compete” with the big cruise forum sites. However, we have had many requests for [...]

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New Dining Preference Poll

After so many responses to our Cruise Planning poll, we have just set up a new poll about dining preferences. You can view the results of the cruise planning poll, or any of our previous polls, in our polls archive. The latest poll results show that Ports of Call, Price and [...]

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Southwest and Bags To Go

I just saw where South West Airlines is offering a baggage check at some cruise ports for passengers flying home on South West. This is a great service because passengers who book their own flights often book flights later in the day to make sure that they off the [...]

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Finally we hear from Windjammer

Windjammer released the following information today on www.windjammer.com
Windjammer Barefoot Cruises
Lorraine Shaw
(305) 672-6453
Monday, October 8th 2007
Miami Beach, Florida

“Windjammer’s Heart is Still Beating – Better Sailing Ahead
There’s no doubt about it, Windjammer Barefoot Cruises is in the midst of a storm. News accounts and chat rooms have reported tough times for the 60 year old tall [...]

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Celebrity Reveals Some Details Of The Upcoming Solstice Ships

Celebrity has released a few more details about it’s upcoming new Celebrity Solstice ship.
First, the lay-out, size, and design, of the state rooms have been put together by a focus group of 5 women. The cruise line says that women are the chief cruise planners and the most discerning [...]

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Cruise Talk Central Server Move Complete

The Cruise Talk Central website server move is now complete. If you are seeing this page with this post, your DNS has propagated and you are good to go.
This new server setup should make the Cruise Talk Central experience smoother and quicker. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. [...]

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Cruise Talk Central Moving To New Server

Sometime over the next couple of days, Cruise Talk Central will be moving to a new server. We are doing this accommodate the increasing demands on bandwidth and to make sure we can provide our readers with a good user experience. Hopefully, you won’t even notice the move.
When the move does occur, we [...]

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NCL Adopts New Dress Code – Jeans Now OK In Dining Venues

I have updated our dress code policies page to reflect the new dress code policy put in place by NCL. Here’s the new dress code information according to NCL’s web site:

Freestyle Cruising gives you the freedom to dress as you please – morning, noon and night.
Casual attire is perfect for all restaurants during the [...]

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