Posts Tagged ‘ cruise-lines ’

Controlling your kids at sea

February 6, 2012
By Island Tips

While cruise lines can set and should enforce policies, it's a parent's responsibility to ensure his or her children are aware of -- and abide by -- the rules.
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Small Ships – Are they the way to go?

February 3, 2012
By Island Tips

It’s the question we are asked over and over again. “Should I take a large ship or a small ship?”  Typically cruise lines with large ships tend to have lots of extra activities such as rock climbing walls and big screen TVs over the pool deck ...
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AAA Travel Experts Offer Five Cruise Safety Tips

January 31, 2012
By Island Tips

Cruise Tips from AAA Travel experts AAA Travel cruise experts say cruising remains a popular choice for North American vacationers.?More than 16 million cruise passengers sailed the world’s waterways last year, according to the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), and a passenger total in excess of 17 million is forecast for 2012. While...
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Huge Value in Luxury all-inclusive Cruise Pricing

January 20, 2012
By Island Tips

The recent trend of luxury cruise lines throwing in all kinds of free amenities continues to grow in their new era of all-inclusive cruising.  Going into 2008, luxury cruisers had to book almost a year in advance to ensure they got on the luxury cruise...
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Costa Concordia: Carnival orders safety review as new video shows chaotic scenes on stricken ship

January 20, 2012
By Island Tips
Costa Concordia: Carnival orders safety review as new video shows chaotic scenes on stricken ship

Carnival Corporation, which owns Costa, P&O Cruises and Cunard as well as seven other cruise lines, will review emergency response procedures in light of the Italy accident.
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Safety at Sea Continued: Cruise Industry Holds Media Briefing

January 19, 2012
By Island Tips
Safety at Sea Continued: Cruise Industry Holds Media Briefing

This morning at a packed media briefing on the safety of cruising held by Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), key ...
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Are you Less Likely to Cruise?

January 18, 2012
By Island Tips
Are you Less Likely to Cruise?

(Courtesy Kabacchi/Flickr ) The Costa Concordia catastrophe of course raises a whole host of questions. Did the captain purposely go too close to shore? Why did the ship list so quickly? Was the crew not properly trained to deal with an accident? The chaos described by passengers...
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Cruise boom to continue, say operators

January 18, 2012
By Island Tips
Cruise boom to continue, say operators

The Costa Concordia disaster is unlikely to put Britons off cruising, according to cruise lines and agents.
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Cruise Line Blogs and Twitter Accounts

January 8, 2012
By Island Tips

Cruise Lines with Blogs and online links Summary list of links to popular cruise line blogs and Twitter accounts.   Get social. Interact. See what’s buzzing. USEFUL LINKS Blog Sites from cruise lines Holland America Blog We Are Cunard Carnival ...
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed – Refurbishing Cruise Ships

December 20, 2011
By Island Tips
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed  – Refurbishing Cruise Ships

One of the unique challenges that cruise lines face today is not “keeping up with Joneses”, but keeping up with themselves. Each time a cruise line introduces a new ship, it arrives with new features and innovations that are not found on earlier generation fleet mates. For ...
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