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More Sea Days! More Family Board Game Time!

More Sea Days! More Family Board Game Time!

When I look back at our recent cruises with our kids, and even further back to the cruises I did as a kid, I have to say that my favorite cruises are the ones with the most Sea Days. The very best cruise was our San Diego/Hawaii round trip cruise because we had [...]

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New Cruise Videos Posted

New Cruise Videos Posted

We are pleased to announce that we have added some new cruise videos here at Cruise Talk. These videos are some of the highlights of Celebrity Mercury Alaska Cruise this past June.

A few of my favorites are: the whale watching, Skagway excursion and the Hubbard Glacier video. [...]

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Dance Around Your Cruise Ship?

If you enjoy dance, like my family does, a cruise may just be one of the best vacations for you. With so many different activities that involve dance, a cruise vacation will keep you entertained and your feet moving.

Production Dances and Folkloric Shows

Often the dancers are the strongest aspect of the productions shows. [...]

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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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Were the 70’s the Golden Age of Cruising?

I look back so fondly on my first cruise experiences as a kid in the 70’s and it makes me wonder, were the cruises really that great, or did the wonder of traveling in such an elegant way at such a young age color my memories. We cruised on the BonVivant, Costa’s World Renaissance, [...]

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Alaska Cruise Pictures Uploaded to Cruise Talk

We now have the pictures from our June 2007 Alaska Cruise on board the Celebrity Mercury uploaded to Cruise Talk. I have added a caption and description to each of the pictures describing the content. This will help you put the pictures in context. However, I apologize for my redundancy. [...]

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Live From the Mercury Day One

What a great cruise we are having so far.

We arrived in Vancouver around 10:00 Thursday night, spent a cozy night at a hotel near the airport, and then were picked up by our Limo Van at 11:00 Friday Morning. We arrived at Canada Place around 11:40 and walked right through the boarding procedures [...]

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Our Next Cruise… Starts in Three Days

Well I can’t believe it’s almost here…Our Celebrity Mercury Alaska family reunion cruise.

We started planning this cruise a little over a year ago with my Mother-in-law, Sister-in-law, and her husband. My Mother-in-law’s sister is also joining us as her roommate. It should be a great cruise.

We had lots of choices to [...]

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Celebrity Mercury Cruise to Mexico Videos

I finally finished my cruise video for our trip to Mexico in Nov/Dec 2006 onboard the Celebrity Mercury. I wanted to get it finished prior to our cruise to Alaska onboard the Celebrity Mercury once again in a week or so. Now, I just need to break the DVD movie up into a smaller [...]

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Interesting Article About Our Upcoming Cruise

I ran across this article from the Vancouver Courier about the Celebrity Mercury Alaska Cruise. This is the same cruise that we’ll be taking next week. This will be our 3rd Cruise on the Celebrity Mercury, and all the family agrees that it is our favorite ship. For what [...]

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