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.
Norwegian Cruise Line is launching an interactive contest on the third largest and fastest growing social media site,Pinterest, a virtual pin board that allows users to organize and share their favorite photos and videos with followers. Today through August 22, 2012, Norwegian is inviting social media users to join in and “Pin to Win” images […]
Welcome to the “That’s Amore” Raffle! The “That’s Amore” raffle is now closed. Thank you to all of you who have entered the raffle. The 2 winners will be chosen soon and they will be announced on Saturday, August 18th at noon EST. Thank you again and good luck! Your potential prize!
It is now being reported by a local Jamaican newspaper and Cruise Law News that another cruise passenger has gone missing in the port city of Ocho Rios, Jamaica. The article states that Fredrick Lauritzen, 50, was reported missing after he failed to return to his unidentified cruise ship. Frederick was reported missing by the ship […]
On Sunday, August 12th Meyer Werft Shipyards in Papenburg, Germany will float out Celebrity’s newest ship, the Celebrity Reflection. Even cooler, the entire float out will be broadcast live on this German news website at 7:30am. The last of Celebrity’s innovative Solstice Class ships will be floated out of her covered shipyard at 7:30 am on Sunday. She will be floated […]
This blog was originally written, yesterday, August 9th. Today Dave is at sea heading towards Ft. Lauderdale. — Day 5: St. Maarten/Sint Martin I woke up this morning to an alarm clock blaring and my mom screaming for me to get up or we’ll miss our excursion. I got out of bed, turned to the balcony window, […]
So are you ready for a second raffle to celebrate Mikey’s Cruise Blog’s 1st birthday? I hope your answer is yes, because starting on Tuesday, August 14th you can enter our latest raffle contest, the “That’s Amore” raffle with prizes generously donated by Costa Cruises. On Tuesday, August 14th starting at 12:00am until August 15th at […]
This blog was originally written, yesterday, August 8th. Today Dave is in St. Maarten. — Today, I woke up to an ever-approaching island: St. Thomas. From the open seas, I sat on the balcony and watched the island take full shape and it was really beautiful. Then, I took a walk to the Boardwalk and ate breakfast […]
Obviously with secrets and mysteries come a lot of speculation and rumors. Royal Caribbean’s new builds, Project Sunshine, are not exempt from this statement. Since the order of the two ships, which are slated for delivery in 2014 and 2015, many cruisers, myself included, have begun to speculate and spread rumors about these mysterious ships. These […]
Are you ready to Cruise Like A Norwegian with some awesome prizes!? On Thursday, August 16th starting at 12:00am until August 17th at 11:59pm EST, you will be able to enter our raffle contest by answering a simple trivia question about Norwegian Cruise Line. It will be simple, you open up the blog, play the video, answer […]
This blog was originally written, yesterday, August 7th. Today Dave is in St. Thomas. — Day 3: At Sea So today I was at sea the whole day and I have to admit, it was a very non-eventful day. I enjoyed that though because it finally gave me some time to rest after two very demanding days. […]
Matt from the unofficial Royal Caribbean blog at royalcaribbeanblog.com joins Kaleigh and James to give an overview of the cruise line, plus information from a recent earnings call about future potential ships and deployments. This weeks cruise news features a new program from Carnival which allows for early embarkation, as well as the launch […]
Originally written on August 6th. Day 2: Nassau, Bahamas Today, I got to experience my first port of call onboard the Allure of the Seas: Nassau, Bahamas. It was really beautiful to wake up to a view of a clear blue ocean and Atlantis sitting on a fresh green body of land. Before I got off […]