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Boheme Pictures Posted
I have scanned and posted the pictures from our family’s 1979 cruise on the Commodore Cruise line Boheme. Again, I know my Mom has more pictures, and I will try to get her to send me the pictures to add to the album. Some of these pictures are still pretty funny. I [...]
Dance Competition or Cruise Which is a better value???
I always find it interesting to compare other types of vacations to a cruise. I truly feel that cruising is quite often the best value in a vacation. This is one of the reasons that cruising has has a huge growth in popularity in the last 30 years. So here’s a little comparison.
Last weekend my [...]
Princess Confirms Crown Princess Mishap Due to Human Error
7/24/2006 - Princess Cruises
A Letter to Our Passengers Regarding Crown Princess
Dear Passenger,
We at Princess Cruises would like to take the opportunity to comment about the incident of last week, when Crown Princess experienced a strong list following her departure from Port Canaveral, Florida. We express our sincerest apologies for this regrettable event, and fully understand [...]
Crown Princess Back in Service
The Princess Cruise Lines ship Crown Princess is in New York today picking up passengers for its next cruise. It has been cleared to sail, but there is no official word on the cause of the accident yet. This unconfirmed story says the cause of the accident may be human error.
Here is the [...]
Celebrity Mercury Hit By Norovirus in Alaska
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For the second time this summer, a wave of illness believed to be from norovirus has hit a Celebrity Cruise ship along the Alaska coastal route, health officials said.
Kevin Carlisle, a Health Canada environmental health officer, said nausea, vomiting and diarrhea afflicted 105 of the 2,282 passengers and 20 of the [...]
Crown Princess Back To Port After Hard Roll
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — A steering problem caused a cruise ship to roll abruptly to the left Tuesday, injuring some passengers and terrifying many, Coast Guard officials and passengers said.
The Crown Princess, which can accommodate 3,000 passengers, had just departed Port Canaveral en route to New York when it listed badly to its port side, [...]
My First Cruise
Bon Vivant Cruise to Bahamas
The hardest part of writing this review is remembering exactly when the cuise was. I have now narrowed it down to either Christmas 1975 or just after New Years 1976. I know that we went down to the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area to stay with extended family before the [...]
Celebrity Orders Third Solstice Class Ship
MIAMI, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Celebrity Cruises today announced it has ordered a third 118,000 gross-registered-ton Solstice-class ship, significantly reinforcing the company’s commitment to the growth and innovative development of the Celebrity brand.
German shipbuilder Meyer Werft will build the new tonnage, with delivery of Celebrity Solstice planned for Fall 2008, Celebrity Equinox in Summer 2009, [...]
Cruise Ship Hired for US Evacuation
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) — The State Department has hired the cruise ship Orient Queen to evacuate U.S. citizens from Beirut starting Tuesday, according to the Pentagon.
An American Navy destroyer, the USS Gonzales will escort the ship for security reasons.
The Orient Queen can carry about 750 passengers for the approximate five-hour crossing from Beirut to [...]
World Renaissance Cruise 1978
How do you write a cruise review on a cruise that you took almost 30 years ago. Well it can be a little daunting, but luckily I have pretty good memory of the 70s and the help of about 6 reels of home movies.
Itinerary:
This was our one and only cruise that we took out of [...]
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