February 22, 2012

Holland America Zuiderdam: Day at Sea + First Timer Lunch

View from the gym aboard ms Zuiderdam.

My first thought when I woke up this morning is that the gym was going to be packed. I was wrong. I got there around 8am and there was plenty of machines available. Our time went ahead one hour last night so we’re now in the Atlantic time zone. Craig went to the excursion talk [...]

Norwegian Cruise Line teams up with superstar music cruise company

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MIAMI – February 21, 2012 – Building upon its leadership position of bringing new forms of entertainment to cruisers, Norwegian Cruise Line today announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with Sixthman to work closely developing and delivering high quality music experiences at sea. Norwegian’s rich history of innovation, particularly in the evolution of [...]

Video: Carnival Spirit’s Green Thunder Inauguration

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The new water-slide recently installed on Carnival Spirit is a big hit. Take a look at the video with some people going down Green Thunder. Video: CCL Subscribe to our Cruise News Updates.  

Carnival launches sweepstakes for travel agents booking Carnival Breeze Europe

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Carnival is sweetening the deal for their agents booking their upcoming Carnival Breeze trips out of Europe. The cruise line is offering a grand prize trip of a 7-night sailing for two for the grand prize winner and 50 runner ups will receive $50 MasterCard gift cards. Each online reservation counts as an entry. “Our [...]

Holland America Zuiderdam: Half-Moon Cay + Entertainment

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We arrived in Half-MoonCay,Bahamas around 7:45am and dropped anchor where we were joined by another HAL ship ms Westerdam. The tender process was pretty straight laced. We had to go to the Queen’s Lounge, get a tender ticket and then wait for our tender number to be called. The process from getting our ticket to [...]

Paul Gauguin Cruises Completes $7 Million Renovation

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BELLEVUE, WASH. – February 17, 2012 –Paul Gauguin Cruises (www.pgcruises.com), operator of the highest-rated and longest continually sailing luxury cruise ship in the South Pacific, the m/sPaul Gauguin, is proud to reveal the completion of a $7 million renovation– the largest in the ship’s 14-year history. The renovation took place during the ship’s 10-night crossing [...]

Holland America Zuiderdam: Embarkation Day

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When I got to Fort Lauderdale this morning I went and did laundry at a local coin laundry facility as it’s much cheaper than paying $2 per article of clothing on a cruise ship. I wound up paying $2.75 and had all my laundry washed and dried (the facility was a couple minutes from the [...]

Costa Atlantica: Disembarkation Day + Breakfast in dining room

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This morning started at 6:00am for me as I made a rush to get last minute things packed and not forget anything. The last cruise I was on, I pretty much almost forgot my iPhone and I did forget a pair of my jogging pants. At around 7am, I called up my table mates and [...]

Costa Atlantica: Last day at Sea + Guest Relations

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For being our day at sea, we had great weather and were able to just chill out the whole day. A lot of people on the ship were lying out in the sun, while others spent the day indoors after having baked in the sun for the past 10-days. At 10:30 I had an interview [...]

Costa Crociere Statement on Concordia Defueling Operation

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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Feb. 17, 2012) — The Concordia Emergency Commissioner’s Office and Costa Crociere have announced that the pumping of fuel from the cruise ship Costa Concordia has been continuing around the clock since 5 p.m. February 12, in accordance with the plan devised by the Neri/Smit Salvage team. From the time defueling began until [...]