Welcome back, cruisers! If you’re just joining me, I’m currently sailing on a nine-day voyage aboard Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth. The ship is operating on a slightly modified itinerary thanks to Hurricane Melissa, which forced a few changes. Instead of calling on Amber Cove, Montego Bay, Belize, and Cozumel, our updated…
48 hours after disembarking Virgin Voyages’ Brilliant Lady, I found myself right back where I started - PortMiami. Clearly, I didn’t get enough time at sea because I’m trading in edgy entertainment and drag shows at sea for something a little more refined… or at least that’s what Cunard would…
Well, here we are — the final day of the MerMaiden Voyage of Virgin Voyages’ newest ship, Brilliant Lady. It’s wild how fast eight days can fly by. One minute you’re unpacking your suitcase and trying to figure out how to work the lighting from the tablet in your stateroom,…
We’ve officially reached the final sea day of this eight-day MerMaiden voyage aboard Virgin Voyages’ newest ship, Brilliant Lady. It’s hard to believe this cruise is already wrapping up - it’s flown by. So far, we’ve visited just two ports of call - St. Maarten and Tortola - and tomorrow…
Today marked the first of two back-to-back sea days as Brilliant Lady makes her way toward our final port of call, The Beach Club at Bimini, Virgin Voyages private resort in the Bahamas, where we’ll arrive Friday before returning to Miami on Saturday to wrap up this MerMaiden voyage. So…
Carnival’s first Excel-class ship, Mardi Gras, just came out of her first dry dock looking fresh and polished after a little time in the yard. Like any ship hitting dry dock for the first time, she got some much-needed TLC — paint touch-ups, system upgrades, deep cleaning, and a few…
Royal Caribbean just fired up the sparks in Saint-Nazaire, France, where the first piece of steel was officially cut for the line’s seventh Oasis-Class ship — the next in a lineup that’s been redefining cruising beginning with Oasis of the Seas's in December 2009. This newest addition doesn’t have a…
Big news out of Celebrity Cruises today. The line officially took delivery of its newest ship, Celebrity Xcel, and at the same time revealed the name of its next Edge-Class vessel — Celebrity Xcite — as steel cutting is officially underway at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France.…
We’re officially in the homestretch of this eight-day MerMaiden Voyage aboard Virgin Voyages’ newest and fourth ship, Brilliant Lady. Hard to believe it’s flying by this fast! This cruise is definitely what you’d call a “sea day special,” with more time floating than docking. Out of the eight days onboard,…
Since leaving Miami on Friday evening, we’ve had two back-to-back sea days en route to our first port of call — St. Maarten, where Brilliant Lady arrived right on schedule at 8 a.m. If you’ve been following along, you know the Day 1 report covered embarkation, my stateroom tour (complete…
