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Why Most Cruisers Have The Wrong Idea About Smaller Cruise Ships

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Why Most Cruisers Have The Wrong Idea About Smaller Cruise Ships! Small-Ship Cruising Misconceptions

…he Wrong Idea About Smaller Cruise Ships Before I went on my first smaller ship cruise I was told to watch out, as I would find myself unable to escape boring or annoying people. Why? Because the ship’s too small. Someone else told me the problem would be lack of atmosphere, as too few people onboard to make trivia, events and parties, buzzing. These and other things made me wary. Until I clicked that all these warnings were misconceptions from pe…

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Live On Cruise Ships: What It REALLY Takes (And Costs!)

…o Live on Cruise Ships After closely following several people that live on cruise ships and analysing the different options and ways they do it, I discovered many remarkable things like not only how they make it work, and importantly what it really costs, but I also the uncovered there is an unexpected dark side of living on cruise ships that you need to know about. More on that later. Live on cruise ships: The Options Before getting into the actu…

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10% Off Something New For Cruise Fans From The Cruise Globe

…which I suspect a lot of cruisers are going to get slightly obsessed with: Cruise Ship Cards. These are individual cards for cruise ships themselves — and they’re packed with detail. Each one includes when the ship was launched, where it’s registered, passenger capacity, crew numbers, and how many decks it has. But again, they’ve added a digital layer. Scan the QR code, and it takes you straight to that ship on The Cruise Globe, where you can see…

Cruise On-Board Credit Tips

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Cruise On-Board Credit Tips: How to get it, and what you can and cannot spend it on

…ecause I see it as sort of free money is spa treatments. Spa treatments on cruise ships can be quite costly so using onboard credit is a great way of making that more of a justifiable expense/ #4 Wi-Fi Another great use of onboard credit is for Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi can be pretty expensive onboard, and you can use on-board credit to buy it. #5 Drinks Drinks are also something you could charge against onboard credit, so either buying a drinks package or dri…

How Smart Cruisers Are Landing Cruise Cabin Upgrades in 2024

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How Smart Cruisers Are Landing Cruise Cabin Upgrades in 2024

…ow to do this on this post on my blog at https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/cruise-ship-fare-tracking/ If I you saw fares go down, I would contact the cruise line and basically negotiate to get a refund, extra onboard credit, or in most cases, get upgraded to the cabin that the fare I was paying had now moved to. This had been my most effective way of getting upgrades. But cruise lines are not really playing ball anymore, first, because the ships a…

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Good Cruise News You Should Know About

…Lady, Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Apex, Enchanted Princess from Princess Cruises, P&O Cruises’ Iona, Silversea Cruises’ Silver Moon, Saga Cruises’ Spirit of Adventure and Costa Cruises’ Costa Firenze In the first half of 2021, depending on timing of cruise resumption of course, we should see the following sailing: Viking Venus, Carnival Mardi Gras, Royal Caribbean Odyssey of the Seas, MSC Virtuosa; Ritz Carlton Evrima; Crystal Endeavor expeditio…

Cunard Queen Victoria: 4 nights cruise May 2008: My Journal

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Cunard Queen Victoria: 4 nights cruise May 2008: My Journal

…ndence of the Seas (which is the new Royal Caribbean ship, and the largest cruise ship in the world) and our ship (Queen Victoria). It took ages and we were stationary for ages. Once we arrived at the Cunard Queen Elizabeth terminal, the rest was very fast. Our bags were whisked away and then we strode into the Queens Grill check in, got our cruise cards and then through security and straight onto the ship. We had originally only got a cabin in Br…

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10 Things You Need To Know about a MS Serenade European River Cruise

…these winding watery paths. With more people than ever stepping onto river cruise ships, there has been a steady flow of new ships and new river cruise lines to satisfy this expanding demand. One recent entrant is Titan Travel. After years of selling other river cruising products they have created their own – initially with the MS Serenade 1 ship. In this article I share 10 things you need to know before considering if they are right for your firs…

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What Does A Cruise Ship Butler Do?

…little bit about the myths and realities of exactly what is a butler on a cruise ship. Not all cruise ships offer Butlers, but many of the cruise lines will offer a butler for those passengers travelling in a suite. It’s quite interesting because Butlers aren’t necessarily all on one particular grade or type of cruise line, for example there are a number of mass-market cruise lines that will offer their passengers a butler. For example, Norwegian…

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More Cruisers Are Being BUMPED From Their Cruises Than Ever. Here’s Why!

…uises due to the Israel / Middle East conflict making it too dangerous for cruise ships to use the Suez Canal. Ships used it to go to-and-from their Asia and Australia seasons and for World Voyages. Lines had to cancel, reroute and redeploy ships to get around this. I saw that firsthand on my Silversea Silver Spirit in South Africa, where the ship was due to sail after my trip to the Seychelles through the Suez Canal onto Dubai. They had to redepl…

Mediterranean Cruise Traps To Avoid

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Mediterranean Cruise Traps To Avoid

…er budget, Winnie agreed to draw up a list what she really wanted from the ship and line. Ship size is, of course, a valid consideration. But, Winnie said to me she thought a mid-sized ship would be best because she’d heard they go to more interesting ports. In the Mediterranean, the size of the ship is less critical in terms of what ports they call on than some other regions. While usually smaller ships can go to more out of the way ports, that o…