By Eric Goldring
We were greeted with the news of Gustav, which is projected to take the same cruise we had scheduled: Haiti, Jamaica, Grand Cayman and Cozumel, we made a hard left (East) and are visiting St. Thomas and St. Maarten. This gives us 2 extra sea days and 2 ports I
It has been a very interesting 24 hours aboard Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas. With approximately 3,735 passengers onboard, with quite a mix of ages, ethnicities, languages and socioeconomic classes, there is much that I have observed and some that just disappoints. Overall though, it has been more tolerable
I promise I will not bore you with the minutia of taxi rides and pre-cruise meals in this travelogue, but rather will try to give some perspective from a travel agent’s and a parent’s points of view as I venture back into the world known as mass market cruising. On
There is a very interesting article in the August 31, 2008 edition of Wine Spectator concerning people’s expectations and use of sommeliers, wine service and wine with food generally. I think there is a lot to be learned by the luxury cruise lines not only as to what is expected,
Whether Seabourn just finished reading my blog, I have incredible intuition, or it is happenstance, it really doesn’t matter, but I was just contacted by Seabourn with an exclusive offer than fits in perfectly with my last post….and must be acted upon immediately if you are interested: I am thrilled
I have seen over the past couple of weeks – the usual time for the summer doldrums – a very interesting trend: People are tending to book cruises for the latter part of this year and on longer itineraries and in higher categories. While the trend of cruise lines offering
I guess with a bit of irony I commented in my post this morning that Regent’s trumpeting $40,000,000 of hardware upgrades on the Voyager and Mariner was good news, but there needs to be a significant improvement in the service department. I was just taking a look over at the
There was a very brief article of a mere seven (7) lines yesterday in Travel Weekly about upgrades to the Regent Seven Seas Voyager and Mariner, but interesting silence as to the Navigator. Also, while the $40,000,000 figure was used, it is hard to tell where the money will really
The very popular blog of Carnival’s cruise director extraordinare, John Heald, posted a wonderful interview with Seabourn’s Captain Karl Buer on August 9th. Hopefully without offending I have copied the meat of it below. “Seabourn has a name that as with Bentley, Rolex and Cartier you know you are getting
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