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Crystal Cruises is celebrating cuisine in Europe this year, hosting more than 60 shore excursions that offer an ultra-local taste of the rich culinary regions in which Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony are sailing. How about hands-on cooking classes, multi-course meals, comestible history lessons or food sourcing for off-ship topics?

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We talk a lot here about different cruise lines, ships, itineraries and just about every topic in the world of cruise vacations.  Hopefully, we provide enough information for readers to make an informed buying decision, choosing a cruise line, ship and sailing date that is a good match for them. 

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…or it should be One way to look at dinnertime is to make it the centerpiece of the evening, the main event. This is nothing new as traditional dining at a set time has been around forever. The trick is what you do before and after. But let’s start with

By cruise ship is one of the safest ways to travel. Well, that’s what they say anyway.  It’s true that there is a whole lot of security around cruise ships and to get on one you have to be properly documented.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that

Continuing our series on Choosing The Right Cruise Line, let’s get into some other areas, not commonly thought of until after the first cruise.  From last time, we know that the core experience is similar among cruise lines and that regardless of your activity level, there is something for you

In our series on Choosing The Right Cruise Line, we talked about common elements among cruise line, what we called the Core Experience as well as some important factors to consider up front that normally get looked at down the road. Right about here is when the topic of Travel Agents comes

It’s a common question: Which cruise line is best for me? Personally?  I’d go with “anything that floats” and you might too after a number of sailings.  For many its all about price.  Others have strong brand loyalty and would not dream of sailing a line other than “their line”. Some

When we think about cruise vacations, many images may come to mind.  For those who have never been, odds are they think about the TV show The Love Boat if they watch the Ancient TV Show Channel and are into really old reruns.  They might also think of the classic movies,