Friday File: Everyone on the pool deck!
Midst the snow and the cold of mid-winter, the upper decks of cruise ships provide a welcome escape, even if only in pictures. Today's selection of the Friday File is the pool decks of some ships we've...
View ArticleRegent’s Smithsonian At Sea
The last time we were at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, about a year ago, we re-discovered what an intimidating place it can be. You think you can “do” the Smithsonian in a day when, in...
View ArticleCarnival Tunes In Top Vocal Group
Come Sunday night, a lot of us will be watching the Academy of Country Music Awards because, well, we like them. Also because it always seems to be more about the music than the awards. Enter...
View ArticleQuantum of the Seas — SO Special
TweetWhen Quantum of the Seas was introduced to the world, at a press conference in New York two and a half years ago, everybody in the room that day quickly realized that “revolutionary” would not be...
View ArticleNew ship No. 3 — Ovation of the Seas
TweetThird in a series of new ships for 2016 Royal Caribbean’s newest class of ship is the Quantum Class and when Ovation of the Seas joins it, two-thirds of the ships will be based in Asia. Unless you...
View ArticleSurveyed Cruisers Miss Etiquette
TweetWe’re not quite sure when dress etiquette started undergoing what has become a dramatic change, but it seemed to us that it started with Casual Fridays. That would place it in the ‘90s, when the...
View ArticleCruise Ships And Entertainment
TweetAlmost every cruise ship has entertainment. Here are some of our favorite entertainers over the years… The signature production on Allure of the Seas reminded us what a terrific musical Chicago is...
View ArticleCruise Ships A Respite From Cats?
TweetA husband and wife in Dublin had an unusual request for a travel writer this month: How could they take a cat-free holiday? The wife had a “cat phobia” and it didn’t matter where they went in...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Captains of the Seas
TweetWe’ve only met, over the years of cruising, one ship’s captain we didn’t like — and that's likely because he never gave us the chance to like him (“I don’t do interviews”). This is a colony of...
View ArticleA Picture’s Worth A Thousand Animals
TweetAnimals make for great photo subjects everywhere — how many "cute" pictures do you get in your in-box? They're especially photogenic, it seems, when you're in a foreign country, having disembarked...
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