Archive for January, 2008
Crystal Cracks Down on Smoking
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Crystal Cruises is implementing a new smoking ban that prohibits smoking on private balconies. However, unlike the RCI smoking ban which takes effect this month, guests can still smoke in their cabins. This ban will start taking effect in May.
I think this is a great move. It seems the cruise lines are all starting to [...] Read more »
Medevac Teen Thanks Captains
Monday, January 7th, 2008This was from the Princess website:
SAN DIEGO - (January 6, 2008) — Just released from the hospital, 14-year-old Laura Montero (C), the teenager who was successfully airlifted off Dawn Princess for an emergency appendectomy last month, greets the Captains and Crews of Dawn Princess and the USS Ronald Reagan who helped save her life. Above, [...] Read more »
New Cruisers Tip #1: It’s All Free!
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Being a seasoned cruiser, it’s second nature for me to know what’s free and what’s not onboard a cruise. However, when I have discussions with people who have never cruised before, I realize that it’s not so obvious to the first-time cruisers. When I mention “everything” is free on a cruise, one of the most [...] Read more »
Genesis
Friday, January 4th, 2008We got this month’s copy of Cruise Travel in the mail today. In it was a list of upcoming cruise ships debuting in the coming years. There are the new Disney ships, the Carnival Dream class ships (Dream and Magic), and of course, among many others, RCI’s Genesis I and Genesis II. If there were [...] Read more »
Bon Voyage!
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008So my sister left with her boyfriend for Florida today. They’re spending the day in Miami today. Tomorrow they leave on a three-night cruise that goes to Key West and Nassau. They’ll be sailing on the Carnival Fascination. This will be her boyfriend’s first cruise. We’ve been trying to get him to come with us [...] Read more »
Roberto
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008My last article was about the staff onboard a cruise ship. This article will focus on our waiter from our last cruise (July 2007), Roberto. Our last cruise was a seven day Exotic Western Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Legend in July of 2007. We chose the early (main) seating. On the first day, we [...] Read more »