Making Sense of Online Reviews

When deciding which cruise line to take or even to take a cruise at all, many people turn to online consumer reviews for help.    However, these types of reviews can be misleading if one doesn’t have a system for making sense of them.  Cruise Talk would like to offer up the following tips for understanding [...]

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Going to Give Celebrity Select Dining a Try

In an complete reversal of everything I have always loved about the cruise ship dining experience, my husband and I have decided to give Celebrity Select Dining a try.
Select Dining offers passengers flexible dining times rather than a fixed time and table.   Passengers can select a dining time for each night online before the [...]

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Norwegian Cruise Line Offers Guests Tricks And Treats For Halloween

Miami – Oct 20, 2011 —
Norwegian Cruise Line’s fleet of 11 Freestyle Cruising ships will offer guests a spooktacular cruise experience for Halloween. Festive decorations will be adorned throughout the ship and guests can participate in special activities* to celebrate the light-hearted holiday, from masquerade [...]

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Top Seven Most Important Public Spaces on a Cruise Ship

Public spaces and the utilization of them on a cruise ship can enhance or detract from the overall cruise experience. As I was looking at cruise pictures, I started thinking about the form and function of my favorite public spaces. The following is my list of the most important public [...]

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Would You Rather Be Cruising?

This summer I’ll be loading up the car, much like Clark Griswald and his family in the original Vacation movie, and headed off to Texas to visit family, friends. During the trip I’ll be equal parts tourist, family visitor, and even an amusement park enthusiast. Lets hope I don’t turn [...]

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Table for Two? Maybe the cruise lines should look at offering more!

The results of our survey are in, and a table for two is by far the favorite choice of our readers, yet they are still in very short supply in most cruise line’s main dining room.
“What is your dining room table preference on a cruise?
* Table for Two! More Romantic. [...]

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New to Cruising?

Experienced cruisers who are familiar with the intricacies and subtleties of cruising know what aspects of the cruise experience they like and don’t like. They can easily do a little online research or chat with their travel agent and find a cruise line that mostly meets their needs. However, for those [...]

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New Crystal Mexican Riviera Series: Thanksgiving, Technology, Tequila and…Tai Chi

LOS ANGELES, May 3, 2010 – With its November-December Mexican Riviera series, Crystal Cruises becomes the only luxury cruise line to sail round-trip from Los Angeles to western Mexico’s tropical resort towns in 2010.
Beginning with a seven-day Thanksgiving Holiday cruise, the four voyages aboard the recently redesigned Crystal Symphony will visit Cabo San Lucas, [...]

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Results In From Our Wine Service Poll

A few weeks ago we started a wine service poll here at Cruise Talk. We were curious how many of our readers desired knowledgeable wine service while on their cruise. We also wondered if many or most cruiser have no need for a wine steward. My husband and I have [...]

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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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