This summer our plans for the family vacation changed. (It is a long story.) The result: We just decided to take a 13 night cruise on the brand new Celebrity Equinox round-trip Rome, but visiting Israel and Egypt. (You can read my review of her sister, the Celebrity Solstice here. She truly wowed me.) This

As the summer season rolls around you will, as I predicted, find that most luxury cruise ships are full or nearly so.  The problem is, of course, that while the cruise lines are claiming record numbers of bookings and seek to convert their new clientèle into regular guests aboard their ships, there are a good