Well, it’s been a great year. So much has happened this year in our world, and today were going to put the major stories aside and focus on some of the largest cruise related stories of the year, the one’s people tend to forget about. For starter’s this blog launched in June of this year, […]
Today’s blog comes from Kenya Franklin who recently sailed on the Carnival Glory. You can follow her on Twitter here. This is her cruise story… My fiance and I cruised on Carnival Glory from November 20-27 Thanksgiving week. This is our 3rd cruise together and second time on Carnival. I got engaged on my first […]
On Sunday we received emails inquiring about a Celebrity crewmember who went overboard from the Summit cruise ship. The Summit was sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it is currently based, to Barbados when the cruise employee disappeared. At the time we had no information. Today the U.S. Coast Guard issued a statement that the missing crewmember is a Filipino woman, age thirty, employed as a […]
NBC Miami reports today that twelve Cuban migrants on a raft trying to sail to the U.S. were intercepted after Royal Caribbean alerted the U.S. Coast Guard. Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas cruise ship spotted the Cubans today and radioed the location of the raft to the Coast Guard in Miami. The NBC affiliate reports that one […]
Disney Cruise Line’s newbuild, Disney Fantasy, was the victim of significant vandalism while under construction at Meyer Werft, according to German media reports. Various water valves were allegedly left open on Dec. 9, 2011, causing roughly one million euros in damage to approximately 40 cabins onboard the 128,000-ton vessel. The damage will not affect the […]
On December 22nd the Queen Mary 2 was sailing about 110 miles off the coast of North Carolina near Nag’s Head. A passenger was suffering from severe abdominal pains, and she was quickly med-evaced from the ship by the U.S. Coast Guard and is currently being treated in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. The following video […]
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Professor Ross Klein’s website CruiseJunkie contains disturbing comments from a cruise passenger aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship who reports that on December 15th during a sailing to the Mexican Riviera a gruesome physical altercation took place in cabin 1306. Here are the comments: “Wild, out-of-control alcohol-fueled domestic fight – starts at 9PM, escalates to most certainly a felony assault (or worse) by 3AM. All kinds […]
Morning everyone! If your like me, then you don’t think a 7 night cruise is enough. By that time you have just become accustomed to the great ship you are on, and have established a routine. Wake up, get ready for the day, eat an ice cream cone, breakfast, ice cream, lunch, ice cream, ice cream, […]
Did you know that Monarch of the Seas is believed to be cursed according to some people. This is due to the fact that since Monarch of the Seas was built in 1991, there has been 4 serious incidents that have occured. I decided to talk about the ‘curses’ today, as one of the incidents happened 13 […]
A local news station in Palm Beach Florida reports that a fire broke out yesterday on a Palm Beach-based cruise ship in the Bahamas. WPBF Channel 25 reports that the fire occurred Bahamas Celebration cruise ship. The cruise ship operates between Palm Beach and Freeport, Bahamas. According to Wikipedia, the cruise ship is available for cruises to be purchased directly from Celebration […]
The Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) report that 118 of the 2,730 passengers aboard the Celebrity Solsticecruise ship have reported to the ship’s medical facility with vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of gastrointestinal illness. The Solstice is currently on a 14 day cruise and will return to Fort Lauderdale on December 11, 2011. Pursuant to the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program, environmental health officers and an epidemiologist will board […]