Preparation for a trial delayed our "Top 10 Reasons Not To Cruise." But here we go again with the reasons why you should think twice before spending your hard earned vacation dollars on a family cruise. Here’s reason no. 8:
BLACKWATER!
That nasty raw sewage which cruise lines can freely dump – completely untreated – just twelve miles from shore. Yes
AOL Travel has an interesting article today about the effect of cruising on the quaint city of Charleston, South Carolina. The article is entitled "Are Cruises Ruining the World?" The article is very informative and is worth reading.
We have discussed the effects of cruise pollution on South Carolina in an prior article – "
A member of Cruise Critic sailing aboard Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas cruise ship is commenting that a crew member apparently went overboard from the cruise ship last night. There is a suggestion by those on the cruise ship that the crew member is a waiter and may have jumped.
We reported earlier this year
The Baltimore Sun reports on the death of a 71 year old passenger from Reisterstown, Maryland , Carol Olson, during a snorkeling excursion in the Bahamas. Ms. Olson was a passenger on Carnival’s Pride cruise ship and booked the excursion from the cruise line.
Other passengers described having problems with the current. The excursion was described as poorly managed with
From time to time, I’ll include a “personal story” in Cruise Law News, like this one.
This year my younger son, John, a 7th grader tried out for the 7th and 8th grade lacrosse teams at his school Gulliver Academy. He had never played lacrosse before. Quite frankly, I don ‘t think he had ever
Obtaining accurate information from the cruise industry is difficult. Whenever passengers have a complaint, the cruise lines either ignore them or the cruise lines’ customer relations departments send them a nonsensical letter several weeks later dismissing their complaints or offering a 25% on a future cruise. This often infuriates the passengers who have no intention of ever sailing on a
In 2003, Mrs. Dianne Brimble (photo below) was smiling and waiving when she boarded P & O’s Pacific Sun cruise ship with her daughter for a vacation of a lifetime. Less than 24 hours later, she lay dead on the cabin floor of fellow 
passenger Mark Wilhelm who had given her the drug GHB. When he was finished with
I received an email last week from a passenger who had been severely injured on a Carnival cruise. She had already undergone two surgeries and was facing a third surgery. She asked what’s the statute of limitations for cruise line cases? I had the unpleasant job of telling her that it was too late to consider
