Welcome to Cruise Talk!

Hi! My name is Suzanne Klasen.  I am the Owner / Travel Advisor and CLIA Master Cruise Counselor and Elite Cruise Counselor (MCC, ECC) for my CruiseOne Vacations by Suzanne Travel Agency. This site is a collection of my personal travels, thoughts and recommendations. The map above represents the cruise travel (based on embarkation port) that I have posted so far (more to come). Click on a map point to see the cruise itinerary and details.

2018 Southern Caribbean: Castries, St. Lucia

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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise In St. Lucia, I organized a special private tour for our group through our preferred partners Shore Excursion Group. The tour included stops at scenic vistas, rum tasting, a stop at a thermal waterfall, a visit to the drive through Volcano with its famous mud pits and a creole…

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2018 Southern Caribbean: Bridgetown, Barbados

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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise Our day in Barbados was really special. We did an independent tour with Calabaza Sailing Cruises. This small company took us on a small catamaran tour to snorkel at Carlilse Bay. There were two shipwrecks to snorkel there plus a few sea turtles to see. After that snorkel, we…

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2018 Southern Caribbean: St George’s, Grenada

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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise It had been about 40 years since I had visited Grenada, so it was a wonderful treat to try to jog my memory and find familiar sights. In those 4 years, ship sizes have more than doubled, so the town built a new dock to accommodate the larger ships,…

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2018 Southern Caribbean: St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda

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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise Antigua, with its 365 beaches, one for every day of the year, might just be the prettiest of the Caribbean islands. A group of us walked off the ship and picked up a tour from the many sellers on the dock. Our driver was quite the character and quite…

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2018 Southern Caribbean: St Croix, USVI

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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise St. Croix was a last minute substitution for our cruise, as a few of original ports had been hit by the 2017 hurricane that devastated much of the Caribbean. We kept things simple in St. Croix with a taxi ride to a local beach front pub where we enjoyed…

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