Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Europe, Holland America on Jan 31st, 2010
This past week, Holland America posted their Summer 2011 itineraries for Europe. Here’s a link to the press release. Of particular note, they’re offering two Black Sea cruises in October (including a very tempting 12-day journey aboard ms Rotterdam). HAL also has a few itineraries that could work out of the UK w/ Emerson. We’ll […]
Posted in Cruise Ship on Jan 29th, 2010
Here’s an interesting article on cruise trends for 2010.
Posted in Cruise Ship, Europe, NCL on Jan 27th, 2010
On Monday, I started writing a post called “An Epic Prediction for 2011” about NCL’s newest and largest ship, Epic, that is scheduled to launch in Summer 2010. At the time, it was slated to operate year round from Miami on an alternating Eastern/Western Caribbean run. I was going to predict that Epic would be […]
Posted in Caribbean, Cruise Ship on Jan 26th, 2010
A few days ago I posted about booking a 7-day cruise in November aboard the Norwegian Pearl. After some reflection, I’m starting to have “buyer’s remorse.” It’s not that we don’t like the Pearl (we’ve been on her and her like well). It’s not that we have no interest in Belize and Honduras (I’ve heard […]
Posted in Cruise Ship, Haiti on Jan 23rd, 2010
In my post on Haiti’s earthquake, I mentioned that Royal Caribbean was planning on returning ships to the company’s private beach in Labadee. This move has touched off something of a firestorm of controversy with customers and pundits alike claiming that the cruise line is “returning too soon.” Gwyn Topham at The Guardian cited it […]