This morning I read an interesting letter to the editor while reading the Nassau Guardian.
It was from a Bahamian woman who cruised on a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) ship with her extended family on a Caribbean cruise to St. Maarten, St. Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands) and Nassau.
She and her family were distressed to
Multiple sources are reporting that Royal Caribbean entered into an agreement to sell the Celebrity Century cruise ship to a Chinese cruise company.
The company buying the Century is identified as Exquisite Marine Ltd., a holding company controlled by Ctrip International Ltd.
Royal Caribbean says that the Century will "complete its scheduled sailings through the
There is an interesting post on the message board at Cruise Critic, indicating that a fire broke out in the incinerator room of the HAL Noordam around 3 A.M. on August 25th.
The fire reportedly was extinguished it seems after a hour, more or less.
The cruise passenger indicated that the captain of the
This weekend, the “Bahamas Pride Freedom Weekend” was scheduled to take place at a resort on Grand Bahama.
Beginning last Friday, the four-day festival was intended to celebrate and strengthen support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community in the Bahamas.
According to the Tribune newspaper, the event was organized to "underscore the
BBC News reports that a "severely ill" passenger had to be evacuated from a MSC cruise ship.
The MSC Opera was anchored off Guernsey. According to the BBC, the Guernsey Coast Guard described the patient’s illness as severe.
Guernsey is an island near Normandy in the English Channel between France and England.
Photo Credit: Guernsey Harbours via
Reuters reports that Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) is in "advanced talks" to purchase Prestige Cruises for approximately $3 billion.
According to First Coast News, a Coast Guard helicopter medevaced a 67-year-old woman from the Carnival Fantasy to a Jacksonville hospital yesterday evening.
The passenger was reportedly experiencing life-threatening symptoms.
The Coast Guard helicopter, based out of Air Station Clearwater, lifted the cruise passenger off the ship and flew her, along with her husband
A newspaper in the Cayman Islands reports that the Carnival Magic cruise ship severely damaged a pristine coral reef when it anchored in an unauthorized zone near George Town on Wednesday,
The newspaper quotes the deputy director of the Cayman’s Department of Environment saying that “the impact where the anchor landed was very severe; there was
Travel Weekly just published an "interview" of Royal Caribbean cruise executive Richard Fain as part of the cruise line’s promotional build-up to the arrival of the Quantum of the Seas.
it’s hyperbolic, razzle-dazzle, gobbledygook at it’s finest.
Royal Caribbean has been been invading crew gratuities for years, doubling up officers in what were previously
Latore Mackey, the press secretary to the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, was shot in the neck and killed early Monday morning.
Mr. Mackey’s death was the fifth in less than 36 hours according to the Tribune newspaper in Nassau.
Violent crime in out of control in Nassau.
Young gun-totting men are on the rampage.
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King 5 TV reports that there has been a drop in the number of departures of cruise ship and cruise passengers through Seattle.
The video below features the Carnival Miracle which arrived back in Seattle after a cruise to Alaska.
805,000 passengers and 178 cruise ships will pass through Seattle during the May-September cruise season.
Haiti-Caribbean News Network reports that Haiti will require Royal Caribbean cruise passenger to pay an extra two dollars to visit the cruise line’s "private destination" in Labadee.
The extra money, to be paid by the cruise passengers and not the cruise line, is intended to fund social projects benefiting the local community.
Effective March
A crew member disappeared from Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas earlier in the week.
We were first notified of the crew member’s disappearance from another crew member who was concerned about the incident. Today we received confirmation that a crew member went overboard from a reliable separate and independent source.
The missing crew member
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The Royal Gazette reports that Bermuda customs officials arrested two cruise passengers from the Norwegian Breakaway for possession of marijuana and drugs.
A passenger from New York pleaded guilty to possessing ecstasy, cocaine and cannabis.
According to the newspaper, cruise officials notified customs officers of a smell from the passenger’s cabin. The customs officers entered
The case of Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) callously refusing to permit the family of a five year old boy with a cancerous tumor, "the size of a soda can," to reschedule their cruise is back in the news today.
A Long Island, New York news station PIX11 aired an interview with the mom and her
Cruise expert professor Ross Klein reports, based on passenger accounts, that a passenger went overboard from the Caribbean Princess and was rescued on August 2, 2014.
Here are the two separate accounts told to Professor Klein:
"I was on a cruise on August 2, 2014 on the Caribbean Princess out of Fort Lauderdale. A 24
Christine Duffy, the CEO of the cruise industry trade group Cruise Line International Association (CLIA), has authored an article entitled "CDC report debunks norovirus cruise myth."
The article was first issued as a press release and later picked up by cruise cheerleaders like Cruise Critic. Travel Weekly is the latest travel publication to
This morning I read an article in Travel Agent Central about a cruise in December aboard the Navigator of the Seas which is being advertised for transgender travelers.
Out Traveler first reported about what is being called the first ever cruise for "trans travelers." Out Traveler explains that Transgender Vacations organized the cruise so that ‘both
