Cruise travelers have spoken and cruise lines hear them loud and clear: We want more time in port! Answering the call, Azamara Club Cruises popularized what they coined ‘destination immersion’, a practice that sent shockwaves through an ocean cruise business Read More …
Master Chef Alfredo Marzi’s efforts touch just about every culinary attempt that Princess Cruises brings to passengers, on each and every ship. It’s not that Chef Marzi can cover that much ground, but a testament to the culinary staff on Read More …
Flying in a day or two ahead of sailing, or hanging around a while post-cruise, makes the transition from the realm of real responsibilities to the carefree world of cruise travel an easy one. Before we moved to within driving Read More …
Royal Caribbean International‘s Quantum-class ships will debut this November as Quantum of the Seas sails out of New York until May. Then, a 53-day world voyage takes the ship to Shanghai for year-round service on three- to eight-day cruises to Korea and Japan. Before Read More …
Maybe it’s a Summer thing, this recent surge in trending beer topics. Perhaps it’s just a recurring theme that resonates with me, a fan of the bubbly brews. Or maybe it’s that several cruise lines have embraced the topic that Read More …
In recent years, an abundance of caution caused cruise lines to nearly abandon Mazatlan, Mexico; concerned about the safety of passengers when they go ashore. Never mind that isolated acts of violence occurred far from where cruise passengers would visit; Read More …
Not all that long ago, All You Can Drink alcoholic cruise beverage packages were available only to those sailing with a group cruise and only if everyone in the group paid the price. Even then, when doing the math, those Read More …
When Royal Caribbean looked to take their trademark ‘Wow’ onboard experience to the next level, the result was an entirely new class of ships that are set to take a quantum leap forward this November. When namesake Quantum of the Read More …
Savona Italy is is a seaport in the northern Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea and a place we stopped while sailing with Costa Cruises. Docking right in the heart of Savona, 92,700 Costa Luminosa was Read More …