http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Cruises 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:03:03 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1325/story/777027.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1325/story/777027.html Sun, 24 May 2009 03:01 EDT New and refurbished ships -- upgraded with multimillions of dollars -- have put weekend cruises out of South Florida from major lines on par with week-long sailings on their newer ships.<br/> <ul class="story_list"> <li><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670179.html">Making a quick getaway from the daily grind</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/777252.html">Footloose and Freestyle aboard the Norwegian Sky</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/630405.html">Aboard Majesty of the Seas</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/614198.html">Family cruise to the Bahamas on Discovery</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/574647.html">Carnival voyage more entertaining than destination</a></li> </ul> http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1334580.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1334580.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On a brisk October morning amid the clink of champagne glasses, Richard D. Fain took ownership of the $1.4-billion Oasis of the Seas on the southwest coast of this nation where shipbuilding is a proud tradition. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1334589.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1334589.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST When I visited the Oasis of the Seas the day before she was delivered to Royal Caribbean International at the STX Europe shipyard<p/>in Turku, Finland, the first thing that surprised me -- aside from the jaw-dropping size -- was the bustling crowd of Royal crew members who already were working like a colony of ants on the ship. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1326950.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1326950.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Miami accountant Rosa Vega has taken a New Year's holiday cruise almost every year since 1996, and she's going again this year. ''It's fun to be with people,'' says Vega, who is unmarried and travels with another middle-aged single woman. ''And you can still have fun even if you don't have someone to dance with.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1330897.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1330897.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship with seven neighborhoods, a leafy Central Park, and a retractable smokestack to duck under bridges built for lesser vessels -- will make a splash when it arrives with a flotilla at its home port of Port Everglades Friday morning. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1320848.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1320848.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST It used to be that cruise lines ended their Mediterranean programs in mid-October and fled to the warmer Caribbean. No longer. A number of lines keep cruising that ancient sea during the chilly (but not bitterly cold) late fall and winter. But in this recession-wracked year, a number of them apparently are finding it difficult to fill their vessels in those cold-weather months. http://www.miamiherald.com/1325/story/874561.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1325/story/874561.html Sun, 24 May 2009 03:01 EDT Got a question about which ship is right for you? The best cruise line for traveling with teens? Where to find the widest selection of duty-free china? Our cruise panelists can help. Six local cruise enthusiasts will share their experiences and opinions on our new cruise forum. http://www.miamiherald.com/817/story/699854.html http://www.miamiherald.com/817/story/699854.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:01 EDT Cruise lines sailing to and from Miami, Port Everglades and Cape Canaveral, between Sept. 7 and Feb. 1, 2010. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1316788.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1316788.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Playwright John Guare settles in on the stage of Illuminations, Deck 3, forward, preparing to deliver a lecture titled ''How to Read a Play.'' He wears a bow tie and small round glasses. A simple podium separates him from a rapt audience; a glass of water jiggles on a bar stool. He has a pile of notes and a voice that belongs on Broadway, even though he makes his living writing dialogue for others. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1314654.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1314654.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Last-minute bookings helped lift Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. to a better-than-expected profit for the third quarter, but Florida's bleak economy is hurting its fourth quarter, which traditionally relies heavily on state residents to fill ships. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1308939.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1308939.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Disney's new cruise ship will include a 765-foot-long water coaster ride and virtual portholes with a live view of the ocean for windowless staterooms. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1282143.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1282143.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT ''The bigger, the better!'' Aye or nay? This was the overriding question posed by many of the 417 cruise passengers as we boarded the new Seabourn Odyssey in Istanbul for a voyage calling at six historic Black Sea ports in the Crimea, Russia, Bulgaria and Turkey in August. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1277253.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1277253.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT When cities around the globe were vying to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, Joyce Landry and Josephine Kling were rooting for Rio de Janeiro to win the nod from the International Olympic Committee. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1270788.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1270788.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Finally, a cruise for Mrs. Robinson, the older woman in the film The Graduate who seduced the much younger character played by Dustin Hoffman. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1236009.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1236009.html Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Disney Cruise Line's on-again, off-again romance with the West Coast is back on for 2011, when the Disney Wonder will split its time between Mexico cruises out of Los Angeles and Alaska cruises out of Canada. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1230959.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1230959.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT At first glance, Cuba's business potential looks as pretty as its postcards: A nearly five-decades-long embargo has made the island just 90 miles from Florida's coast hungry for nearly every good and service a U.S. company might provide. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214038.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214038.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT When Disney Cruise Lines ventures out of its Florida comfort zone next year for its new European cruises, it will make a splash with a Prince and Princess Ball at the extravagant Catherine's Palace in Russia, a Tunisian treasure hunt and a fresco-painting lesson in Tuscany. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214037.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214037.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Dining aboard ship has become such a major attraction that passengers weighing their cruise options are just as likely to ask ''What's for dinner'' as they are to ask ''where does the ship go?'' http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214036.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214036.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT News from home and today's sports scores never are far away on a vacation cruise, unlike the days in decades past when passengers might rush ashore in a foreign port to find an old newspaper for delayed accounts of tragedies and ballgames. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214039.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214039.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT I'm sorry, did you say something? Oh, right. You want to know about what it's like to take a last-minute cruise. Sure. Just let me climb out of this deck chair and grab my flip-flops, souvenir drink cup and ''I Crossed the Equator'' T-shirt. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214035.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1214035.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT The following list includes cruise lines sailing to and from Miami, Port Everglades and Port Canaveral, between Sept. 7 and Feb. 1, 2010. The information has been provided by the cruise lines and is subject to change and cancellation. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1185404.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/1185404.html Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:00 EDT When Miami-based Seabourn cruise line first signed to build the industry's first new luxury liner in six years, its executives never imagined they'd be launching it during the worst economic downturn in a generation.