On Wednesday, Canada began advising its citizens to “exercise a high degree of caution, especially in Nassau, due to high rates of crime.”
On its government website Canada urged Canadian travelers to be vigilant and raised the alert status from normal. The warning effective September 17 2014 states:
"There is no nationwide advisory in effect
A newspaper in Macedonia, Press 24, published an article "Семејството ја бара веќе 4 дена: 23 годишна Македонка отишла да работи на брод и исчезнала" ("A family looks for 4 days for a 23 year-old Macedonian went to work on the boat and disappeared.")
It’s about the disappearance of a young crew member
Earlier this week, a federal district judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of two cruise passengers against Carnival arising out of the January 2012 Costa Concordia disaster, ruling that the case must be pursued in Italy where Costa Crociere is located.
The name of the lawsuit is Patricia Sandoval et al. v.
KHOU 11 reports that alcohol and cigarettes purchased by cruise passengers, represented by cruise lines as "duty-free products," are being taxed by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) once the ships return to Galveston.
The state of Texas will start collecting similar taxes from cruise passengers at the Port of Houston by in October.
The
According to the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA), more cruise passengers have sailed in Florida and around the world than ever before.
Last year, the number of passengers taking cruises on North American cruise lines increased approximately nearly 4 percent to 17,600,000.
6,150,000 passengers sailed from Florida, an increase of 1.3 percent to 6.15 million
According to Alaska Business Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Anchorage Quarantine Station notified the Alaska Section of Epidemiology on September 11, 2014 of a "suspected measles (rubeola) case associated with the cruise industry."
The press release stated that "an adult crew member had recent contact with a confirmed measles
The Travel Channel just posted a cruise safety video as part of it’s Travel 911 series (be prepared before things go wrong on a cruise ship).
Its a very friendly sounding video that says that there’s nothing better than a cruise, but bad things can happen on cruise ships.
Here are some tips:
The United States Coast Guard News reports that a Coast Guard helicopter from San Diego performed a medical evacuation of 34 year old a passenger who was suffering from appendicitis aboard a cruise ship 35 miles southwest of San Diego on Sunday.
The Carnival Inspiration contacted the Coast Guard early Sunday morning and requested a
This morning I received a message from a Facebook friend that there was a search underway for a man overboard from the Pacific Pearl. The cruise ship was sailing off Newcastle, New South Wales.
But the only information I could find were a couple of posting on the Cruise Critic board.
One person said that "
The Sea Princess is back in the news. Following widespread coverage of "cruise from hell" articles about a noro-infected cruise from Freemantle where the ship was nicknamed "Pandemic Princess," Princess Cruises announced that the sailing to Brisbane was canceled in order to address "technical problems" causing the ship to lose speed.
WTSP 10 in Tampa reports on a cruise where Carnival disembarked a couple in Cozumel from the Legend after the husband had a “minor Alzheimer’s episode, leaving his stateroom alone at 4 a.m. for a cup of coffee.”
Carnival personnel claim that they found the husband disoriented and the ship doctor declared him to be
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A reader of Cruise Law News has informed us that a 23 year old female crew member disappeared from the M/S Serenissima cruise ship.
A Greek newspaper has a short article about the disappearance.
The crew member is reported missing north of the island of Crete, Greece.
The cruise ship is a small vessel carrying
This spring I wrote a couple of articles about cruise passengers getting busted in Nassau for small amounts of pot.
In April, I wrote about seven passengers from various cruise ships who were arrested for possessing one or a few marijuana cigarettes. In several cases of those arrested, the Bahamian customs officer boarded the
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The Coast Guard News reports that a Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter medevaced a 84 year old passenger from the Holland America Line cruise ship Oosterdam near Glacier Bay last week.
The helicopter flew from Sitka and hoisted the elderly passenger from the cruise ship and transferred her to Juneau.
The Oosterdam reported that the woman was
MSN / Ninesman reports on a viral outbreak aboard a Princess cruise ship cruising from Australia which sickened “hundreds” of passengers this week.
A passenger who was interviewed by MSN refers dramatically to being inflicted by a “virus from hell” with sounds of “vomiting echoing down the hallways.” The Sea Princess left Fremantle on August
The headline in the Asbury Park Press stunned me – “Crystal: A luxury cruise line with a conscience.”
Surely this must be a joke I thought, given Crystal’s dreadful environmental record of polluting the oceans and air.
But the article was serious. it talked about Crystal donating used furniture to a “Spanish organization
News sources in Alaska are reporting that a Princess Cruises employee was killed when a Princess Tours excursion bus overturned on a rain slicked highway in Alaska.
The accident occurred at mile 173 on Parks Highway, approximately 200 miles south of Fairbanks.
The Frontiersman reports that this is the second serious incident involving a Princess-owned
This weekend I read an interesting article in the Springfield Register-Guard about Royal Caribbean Cruises’ plans to add employees at its call center in Oregon.
There are currently over 700 employees at the call center in Oregon, according to the newspaper. The cruise line is planning to add another 220 mostly full time employees.
What
