Nine Reasons To Like Carnival Sailings From Tampa

Sailing from central Florida’s Port Tampa Bay, Carnival Paradise and Carnival Miracle will continue the cruise line’s long-standing commitment to offering cruise travelers more.  This time, much more. New: Carnival Miracle now sails the only seven-day cruise itineraries from Port Tampa Read More …

Norwegian Bliss Settling In At Home, For Now

Norwegian Cruise Line’s new Norwegian Bliss, is now sailing from Miami on Eastern Caribbean cruises. Not alternating Eastern/Western as you may be accustomed to with most other cruise lines that sail regularly in the Caribbean.  Norwegian Bliss’s inaugural season surpassed anything we could have imagined, Read More …

Ten Unordinary Things Learned On My Windstar Cruise

Along the way on a 7-day Panama Canal & Costa Rica sailing with Windstar Cruises, we learned a great many things.  The first time sailing with the luxury line, first time through the Panama Canal and first time on a Read More …

Carnival San Diego 2020 Booking Season Open, Choosing Difficult

Carnival Cruise Line returns to the Port of San Diego for the first time in seven years when Carnival Miracle arrives in late 2019.  2,124-passenger Carnival Miracle will sail a schedule of three- to 15-day voyages from San Diego from December 2019 to February 2020 starting Read More …

Carnival Legend Tampa Deployment

Carnival Legend gets around.  We fell in love with the Spirit-class ship long ago, embracing the decorative urn decor with glee.  It seemed toned down at the time.  And the next time.  And the next. Carnival Legend is one of Read More …

2017: An Interesting Year Of Travel

2017 was an interesting year for travel in many ways. Our personal travel anyway.  On rivers, we toured Europe revisiting a favorite classic itinerary.  In the oceans, we stayed closer to home. A full transit of the Panama Canal to begin Read More …