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Yesterday, as I flipped through my feed on tweetdeck, I noticed an idyllic image (left) of Venice. The stock photo show a few small boats and gondolas on the Grand Canal, with the text:
Cruise to Venice. It’s a place where people float down man-made waterways or stroll down picturesque alleyways. There’s no more
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PR News recently published an interesting article about how Royal Caribbean Cruises successfully handled its public relations image during the 2013 fire aboard the Grandeur of the Seas. Titled How Royal Caribbean Controls the Message During a Crisis, the article explains how the cruise line effectively controlled the narrative when the Grandeur caught
Reader’s Digest has again selected Carnival Cruise Line as the "most trusted cruise line" in the world.
As the popular cruise blog Cruise Fever writes: "The Reader’s Digest Trusted Brand Survey is an independent, online survey conducted in partnership with Ipsos Connect. This year’s survey polled 5,500 Americans nationwide who were asked to rate products they
Former Oceania Cruises passenger Toronto resident, Richard Silver, was aboard the Oceania Insignia a few years ago when the luxury cruise ship’s engine room caught fire.
Two contractors and one Oceania crewmember died in the fire while the cruise ship was docked at Port Castries, St. Lucia. Some passengers who left comments on social media
Today, Cruise Law News was picked as the number four (out of fifty) top cruise blogs and websites.
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Feedspot says that it made the selection based on Google search ranking, influence and popularity on Facebook & Twitter, and the quality and consistency of the posts, as well as Feedspot’s editorial review.
The sites ahead of this
The ultra conservative Truthfeed website is calling for a boycott of Celebrity Cruises after the cruise line aired a video ad called "Sail Beyond Borders."
The video calls for cruisers to reject the divisive rhetoric associated with president-elect Donald Trump.
Truthfeed claims that the advertisement is "stunningly rude and inappropriate" and that "smug
When the Anthem of the Seas sailed into the forecasted storm last month, Royal Caribbean’s PR department began to downplay the controversy. They claimed that they were surprised by the storm. But the truth is that the storm was accurately forecasted with waves over 30 feet and hurricane strength winds. Even NBC weatherman Al Roker
Today, the Cruise Law News Facebook page reached 200,000 "likes."
The majority of our Facebook fans are crew members who use Facebook on a regular basis to communicate with their family and friends.
We receive a great deal of information from crew members regarding a wide range of issues, like cruise ship fires, engine failures, man-overboard
A number of people contacted me after I wrote about the editors at Cruise Critic picking the Viking Star (Viking’s first ocean-going cruise ship) as the "Best New Cruise Ship" for 2015.
Cruise passengers and crew members brought to my attention that there have been problems with the Viking Star from day one. They
The Cruise Critic Editors’ Picks Awards selected the “best new cruise ship” to be the Viking Ocean Cruises’ Viking Star.
I first heard of the Viking Star two months ago when the new cruise ship lost power in Tallinn, Estonia. After a great deal of confusion, the cruise was canceled amidst a storm of
Today, I was picked by Go Port Canaveral (a publication of Florida Cruise Ports, Inc.) as one of "Our Favorite Cruise Blogs."
Admittedly, I am (very) critical of the cruise industry and, as such, I assumed that automatically disqualified me from a cruise sponsored competition.
But lo and behold Cruise Law News was
I have always wondered how the public relations people at the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) manage to show up at work.
Their sole purpose is to spin the news and try to make the cruise lines look good.
It seems, to me, that’s a hard thing to do.
In just the last ten days
The captain of the Freedom of the Seas, Captain Ron Holmes, I am told by crew members is a good man. He is well liked and respected by the crew, from what the shipboard employees tell me.
After the fire, Captain Holmes, via a closed circuit television loop, explains to the passengers what just happened.
There is an ongoing social media battle between the cruise industry and the proponents of improving the industry. This blog is part of that struggle. Our motto is “every thing the cruise lines don”t want you to know.”
Every time there is a cruise ship fire, the cruise lines rush to send out the message
Royal Caribbean started spinning the story on the Freedom of the Seas fire yesterday before the ship stopped burning, saying things like:
It was just a small fire that was quickly extinguished. All systems are operational. Passengers mustered only as a precaution. No injuries to passengers. Guests able to leave the ship to enjoy Falmouth
The cruise industry is trying to put the bad news behind it. Cruise lines are announcing more and more cruise ships coming on line. The industry is moving into the Chinese market with great fanfare. Today Carnival said that it is ready to start cruising from Cuba. Travel agents and reporters are faithfully reporting the
The United States Coast Guard is reporting that it last night it medevaced a 77 year old female cruise ship passenger suffering from a stroke approximately 200 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina.
The ill woman was on the Carnival Pride.
The Coast Guard air crew arrived on the scene at at sea on scene
This morning Cruise Law News hit a milestone when the 150,000th person “liked” our Facebook page.
The motto of this blog is “everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know.” Our main goal is to educate the public about dangers on cruise ships and in ports of call that the cruise industry would
