What is a Hot Glass Show and What’s it Doing on a Cruise Ship

One of the more interesting enrichment features of the Celebrity Solstic Class ships has been the Hot Glass Show by the Corning Museum of Glass on the the Solstice decks of the ship. Located right next to the Lawn Club, the show features glass artisans, called gaffers, making imaginative glass pieces right in front [...]

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Party Bands are Cruise Passenger’s Favorites

The results of our cruise music survey are in and the Party Bands lead the way as cruise passenger favorites. They are followed closely by the Reggea Bands. With 138 votes in, the Party bands barely beat out the Reggae bands 15% to 14%. Perhaps what is most interesting about our [...]

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Two Recent Developements in Regards to Catholics Priests Serving on Cruise Ships

In recent months, I have been monitoring two developments in the cruise industry in regard to the Catholic Priest that serve on cruise ships. In late December, Celebrity Cruise lines announced that they will no long have a Catholic priest on board to celebrate mass during all of of their voyages effective Jan [...]

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Azamara Relaunches Their Brand as “Azamara Club Cruises”

Royal Caribbean’s brand Azamara has repositioned itself again in the cruise market as “Azamara Club Cruises”. Cruise industry followers may remember that when Celebrity and Royal Caribbean first acquired the previously Renaissance Cruise Line ships, they were to become small ships in the Celebrity fleet. Then at the last minute, they [...]

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Horrific Earthquake Strikes Once Popular Cruise Destination of Haiti

A a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake centered approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, struck at at 16:53:09 local time (21:53:09 UTC) on Tuesday 12 January 2010. Most of Port-au-Prince’s major landmarks were significantly damaged or destroyed in the earthquake, including the Presidential Palace, the National Assembly building, the Port-au-Prince Cathedral and [...]

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Solsticize It!

Celebrity announced yesterday via Face Book, that they will be adding many of the features and innovations of their latest Solstice Class of Ships to their older Millennium class ships. Over the next four years they will begin dry dock upgrades to the four existing ships in the M-class fleet. Having sailed [...]

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Readers Mostly Split on Formal Night Preferences

Our readers were closely split on their opinion of optional formal night. With nearly 300 votes in those that prefer the ambiance when everyone is dressed up closely beat out our readers who like the option of not packing formal clothes. This split seems to reflect the current trends in cruising where the [...]

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Cruise Talk Appearing on “Cruise Radio”

A few days ago I was contacted by the independent internet radio show “CruiseRadio.Net” for an interview about Celebrity. The proprietors were not familiar with Celebrity at all and asked me to answers some questions about Celebrity for their listeners since I have cruised with so many times Celebrity over the last 7 years. [...]

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Celebrity Singer Contest

One of the things I enjoy doing on a cruise is Karaoke. On Celebrity they ask some of the singers from Karaoke to perform in the main theater in what they call the Celebrity Singer contest. I had a lot of fun doing this. My daughter taped the performance and [...]

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Celebrity Solstice Trans-Atlantic Cruise Pictures Uploaded

We have uploaded pictures from our Celebrity Solstice Trans-Atlantic cruise to our Cruise Talk Photo Gallery. This was an absolutely fabulous cruise with amazing service and entertainment. Overall it was probably my favorite cruise so far. There were only a few problems like the delay in disembarking that ended in our [...]

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