Inside Cruise Vacations
Just a month ago, in Carnival Cruise Line Shake Down Begins, And That’s A Good Thing, top travel blog Gadling reported a comprehensive review underway by Carnival Cruise Lines in the wake of multiple events of concern on board several different ships in their fleet. Today, Carnival Cruise Lines announced
Cruise lines commonly discount sailings this time of year. Its that time after the winter “wave season” rush of buying that runs from January through March or so, after Spring Break and before Summer buying heats up. We’ll call these the In-Between Sales and not be far off where the
Carnival Cruise Lines today announced a promotion that provides active and former military personnel with discounts of up to $600 per stateroom and shipboard credits of up to $100 per stateroom on a wide range of three- to 12-day “Fun Ship” departures. Reservations must be made by April 30, 2013,
Staying “right on top of the situation” for a cruise line with reported mechanical problems on three ships in their fleet might take bringing in experts in the fields of engineering, maritime event management and other technical people. That makes sense. As hard as cruise lines try to build and
Upon returning from Cruise Shipping Miami, the annual cruise industry trade show at the Miami Beach Convention center, I was greeted with a number of questions from cruise travelers booked on or considering a Carnival cruise. They all had a similar, surely understandable element, of concern along the lines of
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Carnival Cruise Lines have devoted a good chunk of their $500 million FunShip 2.0 initiative to transforming 1996′s Carnival Destiny into an entirely different ship. How different will the new ship be? So different that the process will bring us new Carnival Sunshine, the first ship in the Carnival fleet
Joining Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Cunard Line, Holland America Line and Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean recently announced a change to their onboard tipping program, automatically adding gratuities to passenger onboard accounts. “Royal Caribbean will add an automatic daily gratuity of $12.00 ($14.25 for Suite guests) to the onboard
We already knew it was “wave season”, that time of the year when a bunch of travelers book cruise vacations. That’s been going on since the first of January…since just about right after the thrill of the December holidays are over and reality sets in: We have several months of
