Carnival Horizon Brings Ship Within A Ship Experience For All

The term ‘ship-within-a-ship’ referred to an exclusive, luxury area of ships like The Haven from Norwegian Cruise Line or MSC Cruises Yacht Club. Royal Caribbean has a bit of a focus on Royal Suite Class which indeed gathers like-accommodated passengers Read More …

Convenient Carnival Cuba Cruises Expand

During the 2019-20 Cuba season, Carnival Cruise Line will offer 23 sailings to Havana. Those will happen aboard five different ships departing from four convenient East Coast homeports. That’s more than any other cruise line, for good reason.  Guests on Carnival Cuba Read More …

Holland America Nieuw Statendam First Season Detailed

Due to enter service in December of this year, Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam is currently under construction in Italy. After an inaugural season in the Caribbean, the new Pinnacle class ship will cross the Atlantic and spend the summer Read More …

Carnival Triumph To Become Carnival Sunrise

Carnival Sunshine was the first ship in the Carnival Cruise Line fleet to bring all elements of the Funship 2.0 upgrade plan to sea. In the last five years, that program has been rolled out fleetwide. Originally launched as Carnival Read More …

Home Screen Travel Apps To Never Leave Home Without

The other day I was tricked into resetting my iPhone, basically returning it to like-new status.  Those who know about such things say a good hard reset from time to time is a good thing, much like restarting a computer 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 …

Cruise Bored? Perhaps Something Different Is In Order

Developing local embarkation ports around North America, cruise lines have made it easier for cruise travelers to make it from home to the ship. Flying or driving from home to the embarkation port takes costs less and takes less time Read More …

Welcome Home: Enchantment Back To Port Canaveral

Enchantment of the Seas was welcomed back to Port Canaveral for the first time since being repositioned away from Florida’s Space Coast in 2016.  This week marked the launch of a new season of three- and four-night sailings to the Bahamas.  Read More …

Entertaining Cruise Industry Leaders Ignore Robots, Choose Fun

There are times when cruise industry watchers ask ‘Is there nothing they won’t do to be different?‘.  Robot bartenders come to mind. Popular with everyone except the human they replaced, robots are probably not going away.  Existing robots may be Read More …