By Eric Goldring
This past weekend I drove my children 325 miles to Vermont where they will spend four weeks at sleepaway camp…without cell phones, texting, computers, iPods, video games, air conditioning or fashion. It may seem like a horror to some, but my kids can’t wait to get back to probably their
Over the past months, including virtually every person who has called or emailed me about all the “free air” promotions that have been tossed about by the cruise lines…from Oceania to Seabourn to Silversea to, well you’ve got the picture, I have been saying “There is no such thing as
It has taken some time, but a change in philosophy by some and perceptions by others it seems is finally taking hold. When Regent Seven Seas was purchased by Apollo Management and then folded into Prestige Cruise Holdings (which also owns Oceania Cruise Lines) there as uproar by Regent loyalists.
Read this article and you may save over $4,000 on your next cruise vacation! For the past year I have urged you to consider Regent Seven Seas cruises as Premium, not Luxury, cruises. I based this on a number of factors including a significant, and often noted by many, slippage
I have wondered over the past year or so if the sister companies, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises will merge into one cruise line. I first wrote about this in June 2008 with my article “The Oceania-fication of Regent Seven Seas” and then, again in April 2009 in
For years I have shunned the Regent Seven Seas Navigator due to her excessive vibration, drab and quirky interiors, horrible maintenance and systems issues and, let me think…could there be anything else as far as hardware goes????? (OK, she has wonderful suites and excellent bathrooms, but those were marred by
The past days have been very busy for me, personally, but also very interesting for me professionally. It appears that some of my readers, I guess, read this blog because they perceive me as the Andy Rooney (curmudgeon) of the cruise blogosphere. While I may have earned that reputation through
I have always struggled with Azamara Cruises because it had a pretty solid product, but no direction and nothing that made it distinguishable. Honestly, I have said to its parent, Celebrity Cruises, that with Oceania Cruises having such a solid product with consistently excellent delivery of cuisine, service and itineraries,
When Prestige Cruise Holdings purchased Regent Seven Seas Cruises from Carlson it really had no idea how bad things were on one of the ships, the Navigator. And since that day it has struggled with pretty much unthinkable conditions ranging from “little things” like brown water to defective air conditioning,
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