Travel Forum / Travel Types / Cruises / October 2006

My last cruise was to Nassau in 1990's on Carnival's Ectasy(?) ship.
Although I enjoy Carnival very much, I'd like to know about other
cruiselines that provide 3-day travel in the Bahamas, which are just
as/more beautiful. We'd probably go in late July or early August, and

They spelled our name wrong. Dang it...
Clay

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,

Anyone ever been on Fascination for the Bahama Cruise. I go in a few
weeks, can't wait. Anything to avoid or look at? I am taking my 4 and 8
year old daughters. I plan to take my 8 year old snorkling but I am
looking for any other suggestions.

Sure to make travellers by car across the Can-USA border happy:
Bipartisan committee of senators, congressman want to extend deadline
for tough, new measures until mid-2009
Sep. 26, 2006. 04:26 PM

One last question (well, for now at least) for upcoming cruise.  We'd like
to spend a few hours while in Aruba at a beach.   Three beaches near the
ship are Surfside Beach, Sonesta Beach, and Manchebo Beach.  Does anyone
know anything about these beaches?  Does anyone have a ...

We cannot access the web cams from the Bridge of NCL vessels.  Anybody
know if they have been removed in the hub-bub over the new advertising
blitz? or are they just down temporarily?
TIA!!

Hi, Has anyone sailed Caribbean Princess recently. We are going to
Eastern Caribbbean and have gone to personalizer and printed our
boarding passes. Does Princess mail out the luggage tags and transfers
from airport to pier? Thank You for any help you all can give.

“Consumers should be aware that the cruise ship’s duties and
liabilities are governed not by modern, consumer-oriented common and
statutory law, but by 19th-century legal principles — the purpose
being to insulate cruise lines from the legitimate claims of

 This is my fifth cruise coming up Sept/07. We just booked Carnival Freedom
for Sept 10/07 for a Grand Med. I'd just like people's opinion about Med
cruises.My hubby has been really wanting a Med cruise but I personally
prefer doing Europe on land as there's so much more time to ...

I decided to finally post my photos from the Crown Princess while on the SGC
2006 cruise.
Sorry I waited this long, but when Charles posted his, they were so good
that I was embarrassed to put mine up right away.

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,

Anyone have any information on the Norway?? Have they started to
dismantal the ship??

Is there anything interesting to see as the ship sails around Cape Horn in
South America?  We are trying to decide on one of  2 cruises.  One cruise
sails through the passages in Chile and ends the sailing at/near Cape Horn,
and the other cruise goes around the Cape.  Are we ...

From the Chicago Times:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0609170276sep17,1,3199465.story?coll=ch
i-travel-hed
I've had experience on Princess ships in a wheelchair if anyone has
questions.