In just a few days, I'll embark on my next cruise adventure aboard the 5,374-passenger Carnival Celebration for a 7-day Western Caribbean voyage, departing on Sunday, April 16, 2023, from PortMiami. The Carnival Celebration, the newest addition to the Carnival fleet, is an Excel-class ship and the company's flagship. It's…
An interesting bit of history was discussed in the Autumn 2018 issue of the Cunarder, the official magazine of Cunard Line. Everyone knows the ships in the Cunard fleet, past and present, sport a bright red and black funnel - the ship's "smokestack." This design has been around and unchanged…
If you're like me, you find that one of the most exciting parts of a cruise is being out on the deck or your stateroom balcony watching the ship enter or depart a port. I always head outside to watch just how the men and women on the bridge of…
In this next installment of my visit to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA I take you on a tour of the ocean liner's open decks. It's here where you can see first-hand that time has not been on the old girl's side. While from a distance her black…
Time for another installment about my time spent onboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. In case you're just catching up, I had the opportunity to spend a few nights onboard this famous Cunard ocean liner turned floating hotel. [caption id="attachment_13157" align="aligncenter" width="800"] External view of the Queen Mary…
In this next report from my recent stay onboard the Queen Mary, I take you on a virtual visit to one area of the ship that has been preserved and is part of a self-guided tour - the ship's Isolation Ward. The name itself sends a chill through your body…
As I mentioned in a previous post, a trip to sunny Los Angeles provided me with the opportunity to stay onboard the classic ocean liner, Queen Mary. Built in 1934 for the Cunard Line, Queen Mary transported passengers across the Atlantic until she was retired in 1967. Since then, she has…
I've had the pleasure of sailing on Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 (QM2) several times, the first during her inaugural season in 2005. The QM2 was the largest, and grandest, passenger ship ever built for Cunard at a cost of nearly $1B. Today, she is the only ocean liner (she's not…
When Royal Caribbean's first Quantum-class cruise ship, Quantum of the Seas, set sail I was on it. This technological wonder of the waves cost over a billion dollars to build and featured new interior spaces, introduced dining concepts never before seen on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, and had a…
Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas is not only the world’s largest cruise ship, she’s the newest ship in the Royal fleet and is packed full of the latest technology, entertainment offerings, and is home to the “Ultimate Family Suite.” There’s no other way to describe this special class of…
