A crew member has gone overboard from the Jewel of the Seas, according to several crew members on the Royal Caribbean ship who wish to remain anonymous.
Yesterday, the captain of the ship made an announcement that after “search efforts and a thorough investigation” he was sorry to share that a crew member by the
A strike in San Juan today impacted cruise passengers on the Celebrity Summit and Jewel of the Seas. Departing passengers have been unable to retrieve their luggage and take taxis to the airport and arriving passengers have been delayed or unable to travel to the port due to the strikes.
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The Daily Star reports that U.S. authorities in San Juan arrested seven people after finding 24 pounds (11 kilograms) of cocaine aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship just before it was to set to sail.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said today that a canine doing cabin inspections aboard the Jewel of the Seas found
A reader of Cruise Law News said that there was a small fire reportedly on Jewel of the Seas.
Royal Caribbean did not make an announcement about the fire. There was no air conditioning for five hours.
One person left a comment on my Facebook page:
". . . .The fire was dealt with
A reader of our blog informs us that Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas continues to infect cruise passengers with norovirus.
The reader referred us to the Harwich and Manningtree Standard and Daily Gazette newspapers in Norwich U.K. which report that Royal Caribbean passengers continue to be struck by a highly-contagious virus for the second time in a month. The cruise line again
Cruises.co.uk reports today that norovirus has broken out aboard Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas cruise ship.
The website reports that passengers due to sail on June 12, 2010 have been informed to arrive late as embarkation will start to take place from 4:30pm. The cruise ship will apparently undergo what the cruise line calls an "enhanced sanitizing"
Celebrity Cruises is again reporting that at least 55 passengers have fallen ill on its Mercury cruise ship with norovirus-like symptoms.
In a prior article we questioned: Will the Celebrity Mercury Infect Another Round of Passengers?
Here We Go Again
A local news source in South Carolina, the Palmetto Scoop, reports on the latest cruise 
ship sickness in