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Mazatlan on Hold

Posted February 3rd, 2011 at 9:19 am in Cruise News

Last week, three cruise lines – Disney, Holland America and Princess – pulled Mazatlan from their West Coast itineraries because of increased violence directed at tourists, swapping Cabo San Lucas for the beleaguered Mexican seaport.

Getting Mugged on a Cruise No Ones Idea of a Vacation

Over the past few weeks, passengers and crew members have been mugged in Mazatlan, and a visitor from British Columbia was wounded in the leg during a gang-related shootout. These things get negative press out of proportion to what is really going on, nevertheless, when passengers and crew are involved in these kinds of incidents the rest of us cruise afficiandos need to pay attention too.

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More Tech-Inspired Innovations Planned for New Disney Cruise Ship

Posted April 2nd, 2010 at 9:08 am in Cruise News

Disney Cruise Line is slowly trickling out details on its under-construction Disney Dream. The 128,000-ton, 2,500-passenger vessel is the first new Disney ship in over a decade, and is set to launch in 2011.

The Disney Dream™ is the majestic third ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet. Boasting 14 towering decks, a ship length of 1,115 feet and a maximum width of 125 feet, the 128,000-ton vessel includes 1,250 staterooms and has the capacity to comfortably accommodate 4,000 passengers—along with the over 1,458 Crew Members who tend to the needs of every cruise Guest each and every day. (more…)

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Crystal Cruise's Thanksgiving Cruise

Posted March 11th, 2010 at 6:31 am in Cruise News

Crystal Cruises Thankgiving Cruise – www.elitecruisestravel.com

If you like to cruise, it doesn't get any better than Crystal and for the 13th consecutive year Crystal Cruise Lines has been named "World's Best Large Cruise Line" by readers of Travel and Leisure Magazine & Condé Nast.

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Illegal Crew Member Jumps Ship To Keep From Getting Busted

Posted December 11th, 2009 at 9:58 am in Cruise News

That's the way the headline should have read but instead the media gives us: Drama at sea: U.S. Coast Guard rescues alleged cruise ship jumper off Florida coast.

Stories about a crew member jumping from a cruise ship in Miami harbor to escape immigration issues are not very exciting and reflect badly on the whole immigration thing but if a person bothers to read the whole article it's pretty easy to infer what really happened.

A crew member, not a passenger, took a flyer off the back end of Royal Caribbeans Majesty of the Sea as it was approaching Miami harbor. Why? No one is talking right now but the ship did what it was supposed to do, radioed the Coast Guard with a "man overboard" call, turned around and assisted in pinpointing the man in the water. The Coast Guard picked him up and he is now in a Miami hospital being treated for injuries sustained by a seawater enema.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and the other cruise operators that take us on water-borne adventures work really hard to ensure their passengers comfort and safety. These ships are so majestic in size that anything that happens on them can get totally blown out of proportion.

When headlines like these appear the cruise PR firms go into damage control mode. Just a whisper of any kind of trouble on a cruise ship can effect thousands of bookings, many resulting in canceled cruises from the nervous Nellies among us. That costs the cruise line money, money that is later made up by rate increases passed on to the consumer.

All because some reporter needed some drama for a non-story.

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Low Carb Cruise Coming In March

Posted September 6th, 2009 at 3:27 pm in Cruise News, Low Carb

Join over a hundred of your fellow low-carbers on the 3rd Annual Low-Carb Cruise To The Bahamas. On an aside to Debby and Ailsa "I really need to be there" so am posting this all over Twitter to help promote. If I can get enough ad dollars together I could write about it …sweeeet