Mike Faust is an avid world traveler, often found traversing city streets in Asia and Europe rather than his home city of Boca Raton. Mike has touched down in 39 countries, set sail on 35 cruises, and flown over 400,000 lifetime miles.
For the first time in her history, the Carnival Legend is currently enroute to Barcelona to kick off her upcoming European cruise season. Earlier this week, the Carnival Legend began a 15 night transAtlantic cruise from Tampa that will end in Barcelona on April 22nd. Once reaching Barcelona, the Carnival Legend will officially begin her summer cruise […]
Carnival Cruise Lines has launched a new tab on their Facebook page to help address the concerns of cruisers as well as share news and updates of the cruise line. The new tab, dubbed “Carnival News & Updates,” allows cruisers to vote in an online poll to help choose the next topic discussed on the […]
According to reports as well as a statement from Celebrity Cruises, the Celebrity Millennium is currently experiencing an electrical issue that is affecting the ship’s propulsion. Celebrity Cruises has confirmed that engineers onboard are currently working to resolve the problem. Unfortunately the reduction in speed will alter force the ship to alter its itinerary. Here is the […]
Early this morning, Princess Cruises announced that The Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine, would fill the role of godmother to the new Royal Princess. Catherine will take up her role as godmother and christen the new Royal Princess at a special ceremony on June 13th in the Port of Southampton. According to Princess, “The spectacular ceremony will uphold British […]
Costa Cruises recently celebrated their 65th anniversary, which is a pretty major milestone for a cruise line. Costa is one of the oldest cruise lines sailing and has a very interesting and rich Italian history. Check out how far Costa has come today in their latest video highlighting their major milestones throughout their history. You can also […]
Around 1:20pm, the Navigator of the Seas, which is currently sailing on a 15 night transAtlantic cruise, made an emergency stop in Port Everglades to offload a guest who required medical attention. According to Stewart Chiron, a guest onboard the Navigator of the Seas had broken his or her ankle. #Passenger w/ broken ankle causing @royalcaribbean #NavigatoroftheSeas 2 make unscheduled […]
[one_half] This week’s poll: Here is this week’s cruise poll question: On port days, when do you usually go ashore? Thanks for voting! [/one_half] [one_half_last] Last week’s results: Question: Where can you be found late at night onboard? Winner: The Casino wins with 24.75% of the votes. This was one of the closer polls we’ve had though, […]
According to reports from maritime radio and the Disney Cruise Line Blog, the Disney Fantasy has returned to Port Canaveral to perform a medical evacuation of a guest. These reports claim that a guest onboard has suffered a cardiac event, which will require immediate medical attention. The Disney Fantasy was about an hour and a […]
Carnival Corporation has announced that Grand Turk will reopen for cruise ships starting next week. The first ship to call at Grand Turk for the reopening will be the Carnival Freedom on April 8th. Grand Turk has been closed for almost five weeks after a surge of Norovirus cases were reported onboard ships only after visiting Grand […]
Harry Cotterill is the President and Managing Director of Dream Designs Colchester, a firm that specializes in the art of drawing cruise ships, river boats, as well as cargo ships. Recently, Dream Designs Colchester presented it’s 50th drawing aboard a cruise ship. Harry Cotterill has been the artist behind all of the firm’s drawings, but he has […]
Yesterday afternoon, the Carnival Triumph’s mooring lines were broken due to violent storms and strong winds moving through Mobile, Alabama. After the lines had been broken, the Carnival Triumph began to float down the Mobile River until it came to a rest against a cargo ship. Once the ship had come to a rest, tugboats immediately began […]
It seems as if Royal Caribbean is finally ready to reveal the Quantum of the Seas to the world. Earlier last week, Royal Caribbean quietly announced a special event in New York City on April 16th where they are expected to release the design of the Quantum and Anthem of the Seas. Royal Caribbean has […]