By Eric Goldring
On December 23, 2008, the same day politicians make announcements so that media does not pick up on less than positive news, Mark Conroy, President of Regent Seven Seas Cruises took the extraordinary step of posting an open letter on Cruise Critic trying to explain what is going on at Regent. (I will
Happy Holidays! I have been enjoying a bit of quiet time with my family, so I have not been posting these last few days. (OK, so my son breaking his wrist snowboarding the other day wasn’t so quiet, but he has his badge of honor – a cast). Sorry for
It was announced today that NCL’s F3 project will be going forward with an estimated delivery date of May 2010. Very few details have been announced about the deal between STX France and NCL, but what has been said is that as of now the F3 project is for one ship,
A few weeks ago I posted about how being uninformed can lead to misperceptions and result in comments like, “I am not going to THAT part of the world. It just isn’t safe.”…lumping the entire Middle East into a truly undeserved “No Go” area. Frankly, many Americans have difficulty in
Over the past week…and especially the past three weeks…we all have seen something none of us have ever experienced and, worse, we do not really know where it all will be going. Today someone pointed out an article in the New York Times which was a very interesting read: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/fashion/04SHOPPING.html?_r=1&emc=eta1.
If you are a group of three or more couples (so it does not apply to singles) traveling together on the same cruise and at least one of the couples is brand new to Seabourn and you are not paying a 50% Club Value Savings or similar 50% off promotion
Seabourn is having somewhat of an unusual situation as a result of the economic situation: Some cruises are booking extremely well, some are essentially sold out and, then again, there are some that are just booking slow. While I am not a big supporter of “giving away the ship”, tomorrow
With oil prices having plummeted to $46 a barrel, Carnival Corp. has suspended (not eliminated) its fuel supplement for all of its major brands: Seabourn, Cunard, Holland America, Princess, Costa and Carnival. This is how it will work: A refund of the fuel supplement will be made in the form of
Last month I was on the following panel at the Global Superyacht Forum in Amsterdam: This extended debating session following on from GSF 2007, will allow delegates to discuss and debate the various ways in which interpretations and consistency of rules would help improve the process of building and designing
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