WRAL television in North Carolina published a story today which reveals how cruise lines protect themselves from passenger claims by severely limiting the passenger’s rights in the cruise tickets.
Entitled "Cruise Passengers Have Few Rights," the article addresses the plight of a family in North Carolina who purchased a family cruise to Grand
This is reason no. 5 in the series: Top 10 Reasons Not To Cruise
If you are retired or a child and die on a cruise ship due to the cruise ship’s negligence, the cruise line will consider your life to be worthless under current maritime law.
Your family will face a law called the Death on
The Alaska Senate approved a measure today which will lower Alaska’s head tax on cruise ship passengers by at least $11.50 a passenger – from $46 to $34.50.
Count this one as a big win for Carnival and it subsidiaries – Princess Cruises and Holland America Line – which are the major polluters of Alaska’s waters.
In exchange for
This is reason no. 4 in the series:Top 10 Reasons Not To Cruise
The primary reason our law firm is in business is because cruise lines mistreat cruise passengers after they have been seriously injured or victimized aboard a cruise ship.
Over 99% of our clients have never filed a lawsuit before, and probably over 50% of our clients
The Vancouver Observer published an interesting article today which addressed, as the newspaper called it, the "moral dilemmas associated with cruise tourism."
The article was entitled the "Cost of Cruising," by Dr. Ross Klein. In addition to addressing the effects of cruise pollution, it raised the issue of crime aboard cruise ship – particularly sexual
This is reason no. 3 in the series: Top 10 Reasons Not To Cruise
In law school, I learned that evidence of a felony or a crime involving dishonesty can be introduced at trial to be considered by the jury to assess a person’s credibility. The same rule of evidence applies equally to corporations, like cruise lines.
Would you do business
The Greenwich Time newspaper reports that a trial scheduled for tomorrow in the disappearance of George Smith IV has been postponed.
The case arises out of the highly publicized disappearance of George Smith who was sailing on Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship, the Brilliance of the Seas, in July 2005.
A year later, the Smith family filed a lawsuit against Royal Caribbean which was dismissed
This is reason no. 2 in the series: Top 10 Reasons Not To Cruise
Imagine owning a business where one of your employees drugged and raped a patron. What would you do?
Would you interrogate the victim before calling the police? Would you tape record the victim without her permission? Would you demand that the victim prepare
It finally happened. After 8 years, my Blackberry finally died. Not a natural death mind you, but due to my negligence in leaving it on a lawn chair Friday evening after I enjoyed a glass of wine with my spouse.
Our sprinkler timer kicked on Saturday morning and, after a 20 minute water cycle, my friend was soaked to
Cruise Critic ran an article last week about the Top 10 Reasons Not To Cruise When Cruise Critic claimed "Cruise Ships are Family Friendly" and posted the photographs from a Royal Caribbean teen center (below), I had heard and seen enough. I responded with my article "Top Ten Reasons Not To Cruise."
Here’s reason
RadioJamaica.com reports that an American and a Serbian were arrested this week in Jamaica on drug charges after cruising to Ocho Rios.
On Thursday, cruise passenger 37-year-old Brantley Black of South Carolina was reportedly caught with ganja and cocaine after attempting to re-board the cruise ship. He taken to the Ocho Rios Police Station where he was charged and taken to jail.
On
Barbados Free Press reports that in September, Royal Caribbean is hosting a "Tea Party At Sea" aboard the Liberty of the Seas.
In an article entitled "Anti-Obama Tea Party Cruise Conceals Haiti Destination As “Hispaniola,” the Barbados Free Press explains that Royal Caribbean is teaming up with the right-wing conservative website World Net Daily to sail
KTUU News in Alaska reports on the practices of a cruise line hiring European students, over local citizens, to staff its excursion company in Alaska.
Princess Tours, a subsidiary of Princess Cruises, hires many students from places like Bulgaria because it pays the foreign workers virtually nothing. According to cruise industry watchdog Chip Thoma of Responsible Cruising in Alaska, cruise lines
The popular on line cruise community CruiseCritic.com recently ran an article "Top 10 Reasons To Cruise." By the time I read reason number 3 – "Cruise Ships are Family Friendly" – I was repulsed enough that I felt compelled to explain why the Cruise Critic article was dangerously inaccurate.
Cruise Critic published the photo (below) of the
St. Lucia News On Line reports that Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) dropped St. Lucia from its 2010-2012 schedule.
The article states that NCL abandoned St. Lucia because of attacks on cruise passengers which occurred on three occasions while the cruise passengers were sight-seeing on the island.
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It’s about time.
Last December, we reported on out-of-control
The Charleston City Paper has an interesting headline this morning – "Are Cruise Ship Harmless Fun Or An Environmental Scourge?"
The article raises the issue of how South Carolina will face its future as a state with a major cruise port. Unlike progressive states like Alaska, California and Maine which regulate waste water discharges, the state
BVI Platinum News reports that Roland Allen, the driver of the cruise tour bus involved in the excursion accident in Tortola, was released from prison "after someone successfully posted bail for him."
Earlier last month, Mr. Allen – also known as "Crash Dummy" – was placed on $60,000 bail where he had to pay $25,000 in cash and sign a $35,000 surety. His lawyer had informed
Today I returned to work after a week’s "Spring Break" vacation to find a recently published cruise line security book sitting on top of a large pile of pleadings on my desk.
"Cruising for Trouble" is written by Commander Mark Gaouette, the former Director of Security for Princess Cruises and Cunard Cruise Lines. His book addresses security challenges facing the cruise
