The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is about to release its study into whether to raise the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in order to accommodate the newer huge cruise ships which can’t fit under the bridge.
A Tampa news station reports on the issue in a story entitled "Mega Cruise Ships Present Mega Problems for
International soccer star David Beckham plans to build a soccer stadium at the Port of Miami with the dramatic vista of downtown Miami in the background. But the Chairman of Royal Caribbean Cruises is doing everything possible to block Beckham’s plans.
In an interview with television station Local 10, cruise executive Richard Fain says that
The Tribune newspaper in Nassau reports on a controversy which developed when a Miami-based cruise line apparently banned its passengers from buying items at the local straw market due to fear that the straw may be infested with a pest called the "red palm mite."
The Tribune says that Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) has apparently
This week I ran across a video of a "quadcopter" (also called a quadrotor helicopter or a quadrocopter) flying over the beach in Fort Lauderdale.
What’s interesting is that the quadcopter quickly catches up with Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. It flies behind and far over the giant cruise ship for a few
A number of news sources are reporting that a NCL cruise ship, the Norwegian Breakaway, was delayed in the Hudson River after one of its thrusters malfunctioned this morning.
The Daily News reported that the Breakaway, while returning to New York after a week-long Caribbean cruise, lost its steering as it headed toward
The Nassau Guardian published an article yesterday about a former Royal Caribbean crew member, Ruel Lockwood, previously employed as a stateroom attendant, who was accused of raping a young woman on Royal Caribbean’s Sovereign of the Seas cruise ship during a cruise to Nassau in 2006.
The crew member entered the college student’s cabin with
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Reuters is reporting that the Carnival "poop cruise" passengers are seeking $5,000 a month for life. Ridiculous, many people will say. I don’t disagree.
I went on record a year ago saying that Triumph passengers should not bother suing because they are not going to get anything – read Carnival Triumph Cruise From Hell: Here
A newspaper in Brazil reports that the MSC Magnifica, scheduled to depart from the Port of Santios, Brazil this evening at 6:00 P.M., remains in port after a mooring line became caught in the cruise ship’s propeller.
A Tribuna states that that “one of the mooring lines to the pier got stuck in one
Market Watch says you can cruise on Royal Caribbean for $32 a night.
Yes, it may be an interior cabin. And yes, you run the risk of catching norovirus like a record number of passenger did recently on Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas. But what the heck, its cheaper than staying at a
Here is something you will never see in the world of cruising: Cruise passengers so unhappy with their cruise that they won’t leave the ship!
As reported in the South China Morning Post, the Costa Victoria could not enter a port in Vietnam because a sunken ship blocked the harbor. This resulted in a
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KATC news station in Louisiana is reporting on the proverbial "cruise from hell" when a "woman’s fun getaway turned into what she calls a nightmare."
According to the news station, the woman and her friend were looking forward to their Carnival cruise to Mexico.
On the second day of her cruise, all her money and
A cruise ship is a terrible place to go if you have a drinking problem.
The gossipy TMZ and the New York Daily News say that country music star Trace Adkins allegedly got drunk on a country music cruise, fought with an impersonator singing karaoke, and then left the ship in mid cruise when the
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Its been two years since the deadly Costa Concordia disaster. It’s much safer now the cruise lines assure us.
The cruise line trade organization, CLIA, reminds us of all of the new protocols which the cruise industry implemented shortly after the Concordia capsized.
One of the new rules prohibits family, guests or other persons not
Today the travel section of the New York Daily News published an article entitled the Cruise Industry is Going Overboard to Make Sailing Safe for the Environment.
In light of the many recent overboard passenger cases, the title is inappropriate. After all, there have been four passengers who have gone overboard in less than
I could not believe my eyes when I read the headline in the Bradenton Herald this morning: “Raising Sunshine Skyway Bridge Could Accommodate Jumbo Cruise Ships.”
Is this some type of April Fools joke?
Apparently not. The newspaper reports that the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is studying whether to raise the Sunshine
I’m a fan of Matchbox 20’s lead singer Rob Thomas. You know his hits: 3:00 AM, Someday, & Smooth with Carlos Santana. Watch She’s Gone with Daryl Hall, pretty amazing, best played loud.
So it was weird to watch an interview of Thomas talking about the upcoming Sail the Sea tour aboard a
A reader of cruise expert Professor Ross Klein’s website raised an interesting question why a AIS chart of the Thomson Dream cruise ship (via marinetraffic.com) showed the ship sailing in a weird pattern.
The experts I have discussed this with don’t think that the pattern resembles one to be taken if the ship were conducting a
It’s hard to develop a reputation worse than Carnival Cruise Lines these days but a lawyer in Houston may have accomplished that feat.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Houston lawyer John Bruster Loyd filed a lawsuit against Carnival Cruise Lines on behalf of a couple in Texas.
He alleged that they had been
