The main dining room (MDR) on a cruise ship used to be the only place where you would eat dinner with your fellow passengers. As times and tastes have changed, the MDR has made way to a plethora of specialty restaurants taking up more and more space on today's ships…
More ships are making their way into the MSC Cruises fleet and they're big! Today the company announced they will build two new ships that will hold 6,300 passengers when booked to full capacity, around the same number Royal Caribbean's Oasis-class cruise ships carry. The Meraviglia Plus-class ships are based…
My favorite cruise ship recently emerged from drydock with some exciting changes. The “Big E,” or Holland America Line's ms Eurodam, spent 14-days in the Bahamas getting several new concepts that the Seattle-based cruise line announced earlier in the year as part of a $30M fleet renovation project. Many of…
I recently took you on a photo tour of the two-story Crown Loft Suite I had the pleasure of staying in during a cruise on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas. This time I'm taking you on a tour of the massive Aqua Theatre Suite #8330 on another one of…
It wasn't that long ago when I took a cruise on the largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas. (By the way, when Harmony of the Seas makes her debut in just a few short months, she will take the "world's largest" title away from…
Some very exciting news was announced by MSC Cruises this morning and it is certainly a game-changer for the cruise industry in South Florida. The company is investing $200 million to develop their own private island in the Bahamas, called Ocean Cay and from details revealed in today's press release,…
The final day onboard the MSC Divina saw us heading toward an alternate port-of-call, Nassau in the Bahamas. As mentioned earlier, our call at Great Stirrup Cay was called off due to our return to San Juan the other day to medevac an ill passenger. The day started off cloudy,…
It's a cloudy, dreary day outside as the MSC Divina is sailing along the coast of the Bahamas en route to our alternate port-of-call today, Nassau. You will recall that the other night, the ship had to return to San Juan, Puerto Rico to medically disembark an ill passenger. The…
We're slowly closing in on the last few days of this Eastern Caribbean cruise on the MSC Divina. Day 5 saw us docked in one of my favorite ports of call, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. We were given clearance to go ashore around 8am AT and then the gangways…
The first time I stepped onboard a cruise ship was in 1994. The ship was Sovereign of the Seas (now the MS Sovereign) from Royal Caribbean. At the time she was launched in 1988, she was the world's largest cruise ship carrying 2,852 passengers. By today's standards, she's small. On…
