If you're someone who plans your cruise around the food (guilty), then you’re going to want to make a reservation at one of my favorite restaurants on Holland America Line ships, Tamarind. The cruise line is giving this specialty restaurant a bit of a refresh—and not just in the kitchen.…
What an exciting day! A lot of people sleep on Cozumel and often compare it to a port like Nassau—mostly because cruise ships visit so often and there are market vendors near the port. But Cozumel is nothing like Nassau. I don’t even find the vendors here to be bothersome.…
Just doing a quick check-in today as part of this 4-day cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas. Today is a sea day, and honestly... I didn’t do much of anything. But when you’re on vacation, is that really a bad thing? Got some coffee and breakfast to start…
It’s time to hop aboard one of Royal Caribbean’s oldest and most beloved cruise ships—Enchantment of the Seas—for a four-day sailing out of Tampa with just one port stop: Cozumel, Mexico. Enchantment has quite the unique history. She first launched in 1997, and in 2005, underwent a major $60 million…
Today is the final day of this 7-day inaugural sailing on MSC Cruises’ new flagship, MSC World America, and we’re spending the day at the line’s private island in The Bahamas, MSC Ocean Cay Marine Reserve. Back in the 1960s, this place wasn’t even a proper island. It was an…
It’s the second of two back-to-back sea days on this 7-day inaugural cruise on the new flagship of the MSC Cruises fleet, MSC World America. So far, the trip has been fantastic in every way. From a stunning ship to service I can’t find a single complaint about, to, well……
Today is the first of two back-to-back sea days as the MSC World America begins her trip back home to PortMiami, but not before making a stop at Ocean Cay Marine Reserve in the Bahamas on Friday. Weather-wise, while hot, the afternoon was full of rain showers, hampering many of…
Our second port of call on this 7-day inaugural sailing of the new MSC Cruises flagship, MSC World America, is none other than San Juan, Puerto Rico—one of my favorite spots to visit in the Caribbean any time of the year. We were given the all-clear to head ashore around…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has long played a critical role in ensuring the health and safety of passengers and crew aboard cruise ships through its Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP). The VSP conducts unannounced inspections to evaluate cruise ships’ compliance with public health standards, focusing on areas…
Today is our first port of call on this 7-day inaugural cruise through the Eastern Caribbean on the MSC World America. We arrived at the Taino Bay cruise port in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic around 9 a.m., and guests were given the all-clear shortly thereafter. Many tend to confuse Puerto…
