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Cruise Ship / MSC

MSC Cruises Tips: My Observations, Review and Top Cruising Advice

…nd 6pm the room filled with loud music while a class was held. Rooms under restaurants or open decks where runners exercise may create scraping and thumping noises in your cabin.   Meals and Food MSC offers plenty of food with good variety that was popular with passengers. The food is comparable to a good resort hotel, there is plenty of choice and caters for different dietary needs and tastes. In my view the food is not at the same level as premi…

Destinations / South Africa

Cape Town Tips For Travellers : Must-See and Must-Do Sights and Attractions

…uses over 2 levels with stunning views. Today they have become a series of restaurants and bars with great diversity. They range from takeaway pizza joints through Thai, Vietnamese, healthy eating to Italian. The street is buzzing both during the day when the cafes and healthy eating places are busy with people catching up, and in the evening when it is packed with younger crowds. There is a real sense of community and is more dominated by locals…

Cape Town Restaurants: Sinn’s Wembley Square, Cape Town

Cape Town / restaurant review / restaurants / South Africa

Cape Town Restaurants: Sinn’s Wembley Square, Cape Town

Sinn’s Wembley Square, Cape Town, originally uploaded by garybembridge. If you like good food and are happy to sit for 2 hours from the time you arrive until you get your main course, then you will like Sinn’s… This restaurant is situated in the new and very trendy Wembley Sqaure development in Cape Town. The development attracts young professionals and is very stylish and has a great atmosphere. Sinn’s has a more informal bar where you can get l…

Podcast 36: Barbados Part 2: Restaurants

Barbados / Beach holiday / restaurants / Tips for Travellers / travel / travel podcast

Podcast 36: Barbados Part 2: Restaurants

Chefette Holetown Barbados, originally uploaded by garybembridge. In this the 36th Tips for Travellers Podcast, and the 2nd on Barbados I take a look at where the rich and famous go to eat and also where you can eat like a king but without a king’s ransom. To listen to the episode, right click and save the MP3 file to your computor and listen. To subscribe to the series on iTunes, click here To subscribe via another podcast catcher use this link:…

Cruise Ship / Norwegian / Norwegian Getaway / transportation

Norwegian Getaway Review : Style. Choice. Best Suited for?

…services and a huge video wall. Radiating from here are the many bars and restaurants. There is a central core with a resplendent chandelier. All the large Norwegian ships like the Epic, the Getaway and the Breakaway have a magnificent chandelier. It’s at the heart of the ship and it sets the tone. Radiating from here are more restaurants and bars. Norwegian Getaway Chandelier Freestyle Cruising Dining Choice Norwegian is known for its “freestyle…

Oia Santorini Greece

Greece

Titan Travel Italian Lakes and Azamara Greek Islands Cruise Review

…he ship, which we did so we could explore more and eat in one of the local restaurants. PATMOS Patmos Greece An advantage of cruising on a line with smaller ships doing a more intensive tour of the islands is that we got to go to islands not usually on the cruise circuit. Patmos was one. This island is best known for St John who wrote Revelations, the last book in the New Testament. He was inspired to write it when Jesus appeared to him in a cave…

Cruise Tips

7 Cruise Dining Traps Too Many Cruisers Fall Into

…Many can do this because the kitchens on cruise ships often serve all the restaurants. The most extreme example of that is on Disney, where even though I was rotating around the different restaurants each night, I could order any dish from any of the other menus. #5: Cruise Dining Traps – Dietary Issues? If you do have though any dietary issues let the line know when you book, and as soon as you can talk to the Maître D in the Main Dining Room. T…

 I Put Cunard's New First Class "Ship-Within-Ship" To The Test

Cruise Tips

 I Put Cunard’s New First Class “Ship-Within-Ship” To The Test

…in and the Princess Grill, starting with dining. Princess Vs. Queen Grill Restaurants As I mentioned, each have their own restaurants. With 254 passengers, Princess Grill restaurant can hold roughly twice the number that Queens Grill can. It is spacious feeling restaurant, with a range of table sizes. The Queens Grill dining room felt a bit more cramped and less open, as it is a long narrow room with wider spaces tucked out of sight at each end….

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I Paid A Fortune to Cruise On “New” Crystal Cruises. Was It Worth It?

…ons ranging from $90 to $220 per person! Now to the issue about speciality restaurants. For cruises of 10 days or less passengers in all but the highest-grade cabins can only go to the two main speciality restaurants (Umi Uma a and Osteria D’ Ovidio) a total of two times (so once at each, or twice at one). Additional visits were possible but at a charge of $50 per person. I could have gone to Beefbar more often but had to make reservations, so was…

I Cruise On A Ship After It’s Been Split in Half & Stretched  - Windstar Star Pride Ship Tour

Cruise Tips

Small Ship Luxury Cruise Line Comparison: Who’s Best?

…, wine and soft drinks at lunch and dinner, dining in their two speciality restaurants (Manfredi’s Italian and The Chef’s Table), specialty coffees and teas, and access to the popular Nordic Spa. Weaknesses? I found the areas of weakness for Viking are the following. First, I found and get the same comment all the time: “Gary, the ship was lovely – but it was too quiet.” That’s Viking doing what it was designed to do, it’s laid back, quite cerebra…

Taipei, Taiwan. Observations and tips for visiting this city unused to heavy tourist trade

Destinations / Taiwan

Taipei, Taiwan. Observations and tips for visiting this city unused to heavy tourist trade

…o the hotel, a meeting room and a few business dinners at carefully chosen restaurants. Further clues to the fact that Taiwan was not really on the tourist circuit were there before I had arrived when I had been researching visiting online. I did not really find any good sources of tourist information. I had also been looking for tours as often when going to a new place I like to, and recommend to others, to go on one of those bus tours where a ta…