Travel Forum / Travel Types / Cruises / April 2006

Anyone else out see the story on Inside Edition about drinking on
cruises? Below are links to the stories.
http://www.insideedition.com/ourstories/reports/story.aspx?storyid=167
http://www.insideedition.com/ourstories/reports/story.aspx?storyid=170

Contrary to the belief of some, airlines are not required to compensate
passengers for "damages" when flights are delayed or canceled.
Compensation is required by law only when you are "bumped" from a
flight that is oversold. Airlines almost always refuse to pay

Can anyone give me any info about the Carnival Ecstacy?

My wife and I just booked a 6 night cruise on the NCL Spirit out of NYC.  It
visits Cape Canaveral, Nassau and Stirrup Cay.  Does anyone have any info or
recommendations about this ship or excursions to take at the ports it visits?
This will be our first cruise.  Any info would ...

Here is what Royal Caribbean sent this morning...
"Royal Caribbean International® is excited to announce our new Winter
Weather Guarantee for Explorer of the Seas® 9-Night Eastern
Caribbean/12-Night Southern Caribbean sailing's departing from Cape Liberty

My wife and I will be taking our first cruise in November on the Sapphire
Princess departing Tianjin for Singapore (16 days).  I read the most recent
posts on the topic of formal dressing in the dining rooms.  As we are new to
cruising, and without attracting too many flames, I ...

Why is it that fewer and fewer people are using this news group?? Where did
they go??

We have a short cruise, SFO to Vancouver, coming up in two weeks.
I sent my expiring Passport off mid-March. It expires May 1 and our
cruise is May 10.
I made a copy of the critical pages.

Looking to take a Alaska cruise in 2007 and wondered when the 2007 Alaksa
cruise dates are usually released by the cruise lines.  On recommendation,
looking primarily at Pricesses cruises but will also check out one from the
other main cruise lines.

We'll be coming off a cruise in Vancouver and thought we'd stay
overnight.  We did an internet search and found two lovely hotels:
PanPacific and Sutton Place.  I told my husband I would check with the
experts ;)    Can anyone offer feedback on either of these hotels?

To Whom It May Concern:
We came across this information in the trades and thought it would be of
interest to this newsgroup as well.
Happy sailing,

I have seen some very good prices for cruises on this website
http://www.bestpricecruises.com but after 3 email's I have had no response
from them. As I live in Australia email is the only real option I have for
contact due to the time difference.

To Whom It May Concern:
We came across this information in the trades and thought it would be of
interest to this newsgroup as well.
Passengers on half of the Regent Seven Seas Cruises fleet now can use their

The older I get, the easier it is for me to skin myself and bleed like hell.
So why is it in this age of science, computers and other magic that I can't
get the paper off of a Band Aid? I seem to remember that 50 years ago a Band
Aid had a red thread that you pulled that opened ...