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 2008 MiamiHerald.com Cruises 60 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:58:11 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/720805.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/720805.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:10 EDT For their sixth wedding anniversary, Mark and Melissa Hill looked forward to a four-day Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Ecstasy. ''We get one vacation a year,'' said Mark, a telephone technician from Dallas. ``And this was our first trip alone together since we had kids.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/716504.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/716504.html Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:23 EDT Question: After booking a cruise with Princess Cruises and paying for it, I learned that $11 a day per person would be added to our stateroom bill for tips. For an 18-day cruise, that adds up to $396 for two of us. I called to object to this and was told I would have to go to the purser's desk when we are on board. Am I to spend every day in line at the purser's office to cancel a charge that should not have been there in the first place? When did this way of tipping become the norm? I thought one... http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/706019.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/706019.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:18 EDT Q. Do you have any recommendations for cruising with teenage boys? They will be 17, 13 and 11 when we are thinking of taking this trip. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/704952.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/704952.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT A week after back-to-back storms island-hopped through the Caribbean with varying degrees of severity, a tourism ad ran prominently in the main section of a major U.S. daily newspaper. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/687008.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/687008.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:57 EDT Three years ago, with much fanfare, most of the major cruise lines announced that they would no longer permit travel agents or others to discount the price of their cruises. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/679484.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/679484.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Hurricane Ike is chewing up South Florida's huge cruise industry, and ship operators have scrambled to revise itineraries to steer clear of the massive storm. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/677162.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/677162.html Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:36 EDT What are the hot trends in cruising? How will fuel costs affect the prices you pay? And what sort of stateroom do the experts book? http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670193.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT The sightseeing boat was half way down the cafe-lined canal when the pilot started back toward the pier. ''We have to pick up more people,'' the guide said. As we neared the mooring, we started screaming. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670179.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670179.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT In the end, our weekend cruise turned out to be just what we needed: a close-to-home de-stresser. But it didn't start that way. Like any overscheduled South Floridian, I was pushing my office time to the max. Little did I realize that by the time I boarded my Celebrity Century weekend cruise at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, I'd be too late to snag a reservation in Murano, the ship's upscale specialty restaurant, despite the $30 per person surcharge for dining there. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670177.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670177.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT for the jump In Jamaica, Carnival Cruise Lines offers passengers a bobsled ride through a tropical forest. In Stockholm, Norwegian Cruise Line guests can take a rooftop tour of the city. In Key West, those sailing on Royal Caribbean ships can take a walking tour with a hand-held GPS that not only supplies directions but also provides facts, myths and legends. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/669004.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/669004.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT The press releases and fancy brochures glow with extravagant promise: round-the world cruises, plenty of time in exotic ports, rooms decked in marble and crystal, gourmet meals at sea and -- most important -- a permanent home on the ship. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670181.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670181.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT You're off on a long-dreamed-of vacation, a cruise to sunny Caribbean islands. You're on a big cruise liner with a couple thousand other passengers. There are doctors and nurses on board, locks on your stateroom door, lots of public spaces, and ship personnel at your beck and call. Safety isn't something to worry about. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670194.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670194.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT It was a banquet of memories -- of the primitive Embera village, the virgin rainforest, the scarlet macaws, the embroidered finery of the San Blas Islands -- of glowing speeches and heartfelt farewells. On board the Pacific Explorer, the 92 passengers exchanged e-mail addresses and jotted down phone numbers. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/672121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/672121.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT The following list includes includes cruise lines sailing to and from Miami and Port Everglades and Cape Canaveral, on overnight cruises between Sept. 15 and Feb. 7, 2009. This information has been provided by the cruise lines and is subject to change and cancellation. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670129.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/670129.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT The Crown Princess wasn't my first choice of ships, based purely on its large size (almost 3,100 passengers.) That said, the experience exceeded expectations of nearly everyone in our group. In October, the ship comes to Port Everglades for fall/winter Caribbean cruises. Our review: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/668182.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/668182.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Laurie Dishman, a 37-year-old food services manager from Sacramento, said it was time to face her fears head-on, so she took a therapeutic trip to the Port of Miami last weekend. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/663490.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/663490.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT Norwegian Cruise Line has appealed a federal judge's ruling that it pay almost $7.4 million in restitution to some victims of a boiler explosion on the SS Norway in 2003. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/654477.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/654477.html Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT SeaEscape Entertainment crew members who claim they have not been paid for months obtained a warrant to have the vessel seized by U.S. marshals. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/652691.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/652691.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT Norwegian Cruise Line laid off 145 shore employees globally on Thursday as part of a cost-control and reorganization effort as it grapples with higher fuel costs and a downsizing of its fleet over the next two years. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/630405.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/630405.html Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT As we watched the sun sink slowly behind downtown Miami's wall of skyscrapers, my wife and I toasted our good fortune. We were in the high-up Viking Crown lounge aboard Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas, sailing out of Miami on the first pure weekend getaway we'd been on in many years. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/634690.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/634690.html Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT A former cruise ship staff captain has filed suit against Royal Caribbean Cruises, alleging he was seriously injured in an accident aboard the Monarch of the Seas in which a cloud of toxic gas escaped from ballast tanks into crew and passenger areas, killing three crewmen. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/630715.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/630715.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT Squeezed by high fuel costs, Royal Caribbean Cruises hired a chief to put energy management on the front burner; other lines may follow suit. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/625256.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/625256.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT After a 2003 boiler explosion on the SS Norway at the Port of Miami, Norwegian Cruise Line paid more than $13 million to settle civil claims brought by victims. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/614198.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/614198.html Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT ''Mom, they look like dead people,'' one of my daughters whispers. It's 6 a.m. and my family is huddled on deck chairs in the pre-dawn chill aboard the Discovery Sun cruise ship. Other passengers sprawl around us under black rental beach towels, deep in slack-jawed sleep. The 20-something girl next to me is limp, her head resting on the arm of my chair. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/607082.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/607082.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT It's hardly a revelation, but new features on ships are rarely as earth-shaking (or water-churning) or revolutionary as cruise lines make them out to be. And, often, when they do live up to the billing, you know it's going to cost extra. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/581792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/581792.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT I stared for a time at the museum-case model that portrayed early Abu Dhabi as a sandy flat with a loose scattering of mud huts, on which the most sophisticated architectural feature were the goat pens. I half expected to see tiny figures swinging crude stone tools. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/582751.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/582751.html Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT ''Out of sight!'' That was Clint Pezoldt of Miami's comment on learning he was the winner of the random drawing for an NCL (www.ncl.com) weekend cruise. The three- and four-night cruises from Miami, aboard the 2,000-passenger Norwegian Sky, begin July 14. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/574647.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/574647.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT I was sitting at the bar in the karaoke lounge on the Carnival Fascination when a 30-something woman buying a glass of house red introduced herself. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/576711.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/576711.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:01 EDT Cruise operator Carnival reported second-quarter earnings held steady as soaring fuel costs offset strong revenue growth, but the higher fuel prices forced the company to lower its full-year forecast. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/577944.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/cruises/story/577944.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:35 EDT Royal Caribbean International's 220,000-ton Oasis of the Seas will begin service Dec. 12, 2009, sailing 19 seven-night cruises from Port Everglades to the eastern Caribbean. Bookings for the ship, which will be the world's largest, will open Sept. 3, 2008. Ports of call will include Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; and Nassau, Bahamas.