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Celebrity Cruises “Locks” In Record Number of Panama Canal Itineraries
MIAMI, May 7 – Next year, Celebrity Cruises will offer its guests more variety than ever before for sailings through the Panama Canal’s famed Gatun Locks. The line’s 2009-10 Panama Canal sailings opened for sale today. In its late-2009-to-early-2010 season, Celebrity Cruises will offer 18 “open-jaw,” or non-roundtrip, sailings through the Canal – more than [...]
Celebrity Cruises Revamps Smoking Policy - First Premium Cruise Line to Join Trend Toward Cleaner-Air Environment
Miami - (April 10, 2008 ) - Cruise enthusiasts may praise the virtues of “sea air,” but to many of them, what matters more is clean air. As more hotels and restaurants worldwide implement stricter smoking policies in order to promote healthier air, Celebrity Cruises also is taking action. Beginning October 1, 2008, guests [...]
Hubba, Hubba! Three Celebrity Cruises Ships to visit North America’s Largest Glacier in 2009 Alaska Season
Miami - (April 01, 2008 ) - Hubbard Glacier is the reigning beauty in Celebrity Cruises’ Alaska, where the breathtakingly rugged splendor of the natural world meets the comfortable sophistication of a top-notch cruise. Guests on all three Celebrity ships that will sail in the region in 2009 will have the opportunity to gaze [...]
We Have Booked Our Transatlantic Cruise On Celebrity Summit
After several months of consideration and weighing all of our options, we have booked our next cruise. It will be aboard the Celebrity Summit traveling from Barcelona and visiting the Canary Islands, Madeira, St. Maartaan, and ending in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
You may remember from previous articles we agonized over whether [...]
New Cruise Videos Posted: Celebrity Mercury Mexican Riviera 2006
We have put together some more great cruise videos for our readers. These were filmed during our late 2006 cruise to the Mexican Riviera. There are port tours of Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Acapulco and Zihuatenejo. We’ve also included our favorite part of the cruise experience, the Sail [...]
Brent Nixon to Lecture on Celebrity Infinity Summer of 2008
Many of you who are avid cruise readers like me may have seen the recent article in the March/April 2008 edition of Cruise Travel Magazine about naturalist lecturer Brent Nixon. We had the pleasure of hearing Brent’s presentations last summer on our Celebrity Mercury Alaska cruise in June of 2007. Brent [...]
Virtual Tours Are Great, But They Don’t Always Show You Everthing You Need To Know
I know this is really nitpicking, but I really wish that the virtual tours of cruise ships cabins provided by cruise lines provided more detailed information. Specifically, many ships have several rooms within a category or class that have different configurations or lay outs from the standard rooms in that category. [...]
Can I See The Ocean When I Dine?
OK, I know that may sound like a frivolous question, but one of the reasons I choose cruising for my vacations is that I enjoy the simple beauty of our vast oceans. I also appreciate the full service dining offered in the ship’s dining room. Together, there is no better combination. [...]
If It’s Important To You, Get It In Writing
Some of the cruise lines are famous for telling passengers one thing one time and then something else later. Usually, the issues where there are inconsistencies are generally minor, but my advise to passengers is: If an issue is important to you, get your answer in writing from the cruise line employee [...]
Is A Balcony Worth The Extra Cost For A Transatlantic Cruise?
We are starting to look at booking another cruise and now I’m faced with a big decision: Do I pay extra for a Balcony on a transatlantic cruise in the Winter. We’ve had a balcony of two of the last three cruise we’ve sailed, but we have not yet had to pay [...]
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