Cruise Tips & Articles
How to Avoid Cellular Charges on a Cruise Ship
Your phone may be one of the most useful things you bring on a cruise. It holds your boarding pass, cruise-line app, camera, messages, email, maps…
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Cruising With Kids: Documents for Parents & Guardians
Taking the kids on a cruise should involve worrying about packing enough swimsuits and whether someone is going to survive seven days without Wi-Fi. What you…
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R-Class Cruise Ships: What Happened to the 8 Renaissance Ships?
There are cruise ships with long careers, ships that have changed names a few times, and ships that somehow seem to turn up everywhere. Then there…
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How to Choose the Best Cruise Cabin and Avoid a Bad Location
One of the easiest ways to ruin an otherwise great cruise is to pick the wrong cabin, and I’m always amazed at how often this happens…
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Eastern vs. Western vs. Southern Caribbean Cruises: How to Choose
Search for a Caribbean cruise and you’ll quickly discover that “Caribbean” doesn’t narrow things down very much. One itinerary may have you walking the blue cobblestone…
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Souvenir Passport Stamps on Cruises: Are They Safe?
For some cruisers, collecting passport stamps is part of the fun of traveling. If you visit a country where an actual immigration or border official stamps…
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Sea Days vs. Port Days: How to Pick the Right Cruise Itinerary
There are two kinds of cruisers. The ones who see a sea day on the itinerary and think, “Perfect. I can sleep in, have a long…
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CDC Cruise Ship Inspections: What Happens When a Ship Fails?
Every cruise ship that regularly sails from U.S. ports has something of a report card, and you can look it up before you sail. It’s part…
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Can a Cruise Line Change Your Stateroom After You Book?
You did everything right. You scrutinized the deck plan, figured out which side of the ship you wanted, made sure you weren’t under the pool deck…
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Should You Book Shore Excursions Through the Cruise Line?
One of the most common pieces of advice you’ll hear when it comes to saving money on a cruise is to skip the cruise line’s shore…