Travel Forum / Travel Types / Cruises / July 2009

I received this press release from Carnival and thought it would be of
interest.  If you have missed any of my news' postings, they are
available on my web site.  
Best regards,

As long as we are discussing this, I thought I might as well go ahead
and tell you exactly what we did in St. Petersburg.  This is what I
wrote at the time:
June 15 - St. Petersburg.

If your in NYC anytime until Feb. 2010 I suggest you look into the
Titanic Exhibit at the Discovery Expo Center on 44th St.  The price is
$19 and change but the audio tour is an extra $5.  Well worth it.
This exhibit is full of hundreds of artifacts from the Titanic.  They

My copy of Berlitz Ocean Cruising, over five years old, says that HAL¹s food
isn¹t as nice as the china it¹s placed on; it may be adequate for passengers
who are not used to better food; it doesn¹t match food served on other
premium segment ships; fowl tends to be battery-tough; ...

My wife has never visited Japan and it's been 40 years for me...
If you had 2-3 days in town (say, Taito or Shinjuku) before getting on
the ship, how would you spend it?
Thanks,

I received this press release from the Carnival Corporation and
thought it would be of interest.  If you have missed any of my news'
postings, they are available on my web site.  
Best regards,

We'll be spending a couple of days in Venice precruise and would like
suggestions for a hotel.  We'd like to be close to St. Marks Square
but it must have a water taxi dock because my SO always has a lot of
luggage and I've reached the age where I'm no longer able to handle it.

This is something I posted to a barbeque newsgroup I follow.  I
wonder if some of the same jerks here might be trolling us here.
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Long ago, I came across some newsgroup where folk would discuss

To all my true blooded americans,have a safe and happy holiday, and to
all my canadian friend you also have a good holiday.
         cruise lover(~~~~~)
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This game show is very popular, but I wonder why they don't vary the
questions a bit to keep it fresh?
Certainly questions could be given a cruise angle like:

To Whom It May Concern:
We received this information/press release from the trades/TravelPulse and
thought it may be of interest to this newsgroup as well.
http://www.travelpulse.com/Resources/Editorial.aspx?n=57606

Type your answer here.

While researching "small" ship cruises--I don't find "conventional"
cruising very relaxing: too many people, too much noise, too much, too
much--I came across Sea Dream Yachts(http://www.seadreamyachtclub.com/).
Anyone ever sailed on them?

I thought I'd start a new thread instead of piggybacking on Rosalie's
thread.
On our 2007 Baltic cruise on the Star Princess, there were three vans
there when we got off the ship, one each from the major agencies.

Hi all...
As many of you know by now, we just got back from a Saturday, Sunday and
Monday FAM (Familiarization) Weekend sponsored by Carnival Cruise Lines.
Because of our travel agency (Ship-To-Shore Cruise Agency®) status, Carnival