Cruise-mas trees and Cruise Cookies

It’s that time of the year to decorate our homes for the holidays in between our holiday cruises!

If you’re planning a holiday pre-cruise party, be sure to include some cruise cookies for your guests. You can get cruise ship cookie cutters on the internet. One source is the Cruise Gift Store and another that I [...]

More on the Port of Boston

Several fellow cruise crazies sent me emails and asked questions about the port of Boston.
To answer one question – no, there wasn’t any ships in the port while I was there. (ding dang!) I would have loved it and definitely would have taken pictures and posted them.
I was also asked about how much a person [...]

Port of Boston

Have you sailed on a cruise that departed from Boston? Or has this city been a port stop on one of your cruises?
I was recently in Boston for a few days and I loved it. I wasn’t on a cruise (darn) but I highly recommend this city as a port stop of port of departure.
Currently [...]

Is the new Port Everglades terminal ready?

There’s an interesting video now available on the Oasis of the Seas web page. It includes information about the new terminal at Port Everglades made just to dock and then service future passengers of the Oasis of the Seas. This terminal is also known as Terminal 18.
Check out the video on their main page here.\

I [...]

Oasis is here!

The much awaited Oasis of the Seas sailed into it’s home port of Ft Lauderdale this morning.
There’s a great story with photos and a video of the ship arriving on the website of the Sun Sentinel News.  Click here to go directly to it.

Here’s a great video too. It gives me chills just watching [...]

My biggest pet peeve

I have one very BIG pet peeve when it comes to talking about cruises and cruise ships.
My pet peeve is referring to a cruise ship as a boat!!!  ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………………..
Cruise ships are not boats. They’re SHIPS!! 
Please don’t call a cruise ship a boat.
The reason is this. You can put a boat on a ship, but you CANNOT put a ship on [...]

Unique book about cruising

Have you heard of this book, “The Truth About Cruise Ships” by Jay Herring?
This is a new book and Jay was a ship’s officer for Carnival Cruise Lines . In his book he shares his views on what it’s like to work on a cruise ship for almost 10 years. And his book is unique because it’s written by a [...]

Oasis under the bridge

Have you seen the lates videos or photos of Oasis of the Seas passing under the Storebaelt Bridge? The ship had to pass out of the Baltic Sea and make it under this bridge that connects the islands of Zealand and Funen.
RCCL and the Captain that it would be close as the ship passed under the bridge and the Oasis made it just [...]