Tagged With "cruise ships"
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Brooklyn's Prospect Park Greenmarket
By a quick count, I’ve photographed markets in nearly three dozen cities in the U.S. and Europe; they’ve often appeared here on TravelGumbo. And yet the market I visit most often, and where my wife shops almost weekly, hasn’t found...
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Viking: How to have snow on your summer cruise
Every year the cruise-ship companies find new ways to amuse and refresh passengers—mini-amusement parks, sky-diving, Broadway shows and more—but now Viking has trumped the others by adding snow to its new ocean cruisers, starting with...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 20, 2015: A Ferry Ride to San Francisco
Visiting friends in Alameda, across the Bay from San Francisco, I decided to take the ferry and spend the day in the City. Far less expensive than parking in San Francisco, $3.10 each way for seniors and $6.25 full fare, the price of the...
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Concordia Sinking: Captain's trial raises question of company's responsibility
When the Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Tuscany three years ago last month, blame quickly fell on the ship's captain who was accused of causing the disaster by recklessness and compounding it by abandoning the ship while others waited for...
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Museums of Buffalo and Corning, New York
At the end of Jonathan L's recent trip along the Erie Canal, he found time to take in a selection of upstate museums, and he shares them here.
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The Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)
A sight you won't see anymore, Ian Cook shares these photos of the QEII sailing into the River Tyne just before her retirement in 2008.
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CDC names the cleanest cruise ships
Centers for Disease Control found seven ships with perfect sanitation scores in the third quarter, and none that failed inspection.
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River Cruisers: They can't get any longer, so...
Ama Waterways solves the 'bigger' problem for river cruisers a different way, by building a 'double-wide.'
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July 8, 2017: Ship of Fools, Nürnberg
A statue in Nürnberg, based on an Albrecht Dürer woodcut, is a metaphor for a threatened world.
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Cruise ships get underwater 'whale's-eye' view
No submarine needed: New Ponant cruise ships give passengers an underwater experience without leaving the ship.
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June 4, 2017 Brewing Vats on the Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is used mostly by pleasure craft these days, but Jonathan L had the chance to see a major industrial shipment pass through.
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Cruise ships: How big is too big?
MSC launches its biggest ship, Meraviglia, 4th largest in the world, and hopes to be a bigger competitor for Royal Caribbean and Carnival.
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Big Ooops! New cruise ship damaged on launch
Lindblad's first-ever new ship suffers damage sliding down the launch rails, and heads back for repairs.
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Reindeer migration: Norway's latest 'Slow TV' hit
A herd of slow-moving reindeer, headed for summer pasture, are the latest star's of Norwegian public televisions series.
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Visit to USS Arizona Memorial Brought up Many Emotions
Samantha finds a visit to the memorial at Pearl Harbor both fascinating and emotional.
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Norway to build a tunnel for ships
Norway will undertake an unusual project: A ship tunnel to bypass a peninsula that's noted for some of the most dangerous waters on the coast.
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Novel shore excursion: Shipyard visit
Saga cruises is adding a visit to its newest ship, under construction, to cruise itineraries.
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Viking sets big expansion for ocean cruises
Viking has ordered two more ships, with an option for another two, which could bring its fleet up to 10 ocean cruisers.
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Cruise, Repeat, Cruise, Repeat: 200 times!
A Florida couple have completed their 200th cruise, usually in the same cabin on the same ship.
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It's getting safer in cruise-ship (pool) waters
Norwegian Cruise Line joins the list of cruise lines that are providing full-time pro lifeguards for their pools.
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Japan's luxury train: a cruise ship on rails
A new 10-car train takes 34 passengers on a luxury cruise to some of Japan's beauty spots in incredible luxury.
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Norway's Hurtigruten adds North America trips
Hurtigruten, the iconic Norwegian coastal and expedition operator, is reaching out to a new North American market.
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Disney ups its new-ship order
Disney adds a third new ship to its under-construction queue in a near-doubling of its cruise fleet
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Eastern European Rail Odyssey: Gdansk to Vilnius
Wilbur's Eastern European train journey continues, with travels through Gdansk, Kaliningrad, Minsk and Vilnius.
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Ketchikan: Salmon, Souvenirs and Sex
Ketchikan relies on maximum return from its summer cruise visitors, and it knows what can get their attention.
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A Day in Santa Marta, Colombia
PHeymont spends a day making a nodding acquaintance with Colombia's oldest city, on the Caribbean coast.
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Royal Caribbean builds even bigger
Royal Caribbean continues to add just a little more to its Oasis-class ships; Symphony is the new largest.
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Viking theme park coming to Norway
A Norwegian amusement park aims to be "a theme park in Viking costume."
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Tourist to Traveler: Exploring Old San Juan
Jonathan L, a veteran traveler to Puerto Rico, takes you down some of his favorite off-the-tourist-track streets in Old San Juan
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Got 15 weeks? Cunard's got a Round-the-World cruise
Queen Victoria will make a 107-day, 30-port, 6-continent round-the-world trip next year.
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Southern Sweden may have another 'Vasa'
Swedish archaeologists believe they've found the partially-intact wreck of the warship Bleklinge near Karlskrona in southern Sweden.
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A Day Afloat in Glacier Bay, Alaska
It's the Alaska cruise destination you can't land at, but it remains a stunning experience, up close to the tip of the Alaska ice pack.
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Valparaiso—Chile's Oceanside Gem
Join Marilyn Jones on a tour of Chile's major seaport, a town that is recovering its faded beauty
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Visiting Key West and the Hemingway House
Stephanie shares a visit to the Key West, a highlight of which was exploring the Hemingway home.
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Aug. 29, 2017: Linz, Austria
Marilyn Jones continues her Austrian river journey with a stop in historic Linz.
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Do you see what I mean ?
Robert Cranwell likes to look at the little things when he travels in nature and explains why -- you will too once you've read his post.
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Cuba cruise business keeps on growing
Cruise business to Cuba continues to build as Carnival adds to its schedule.
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Cunard to crown a new Queen
Cunard's fleet will grow with a new, and as-yet-unnamed Queen entering service in 2022.
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Carnival tests new 'virtual concierge' device
Carnival is trying out a wearable device that will serve as a virtual concierge for shipboard services and scheduling.
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Walking the Golden Gate Bridge
Jonathan L takes us on a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. Join him and take in the views.
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'World's Most-Useless Airport' opens, finally
Saint Helena, a tiny British dot 1200 miles from Africa gets its first air connection to the rest of the world...if anyone wants to visit.
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Royal Caribbean adds lifeguards to pools
Royal Caribbean becomes the first major cruise operator to hire full-time lifeguards for its pools.
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When your cruise becomes a construction zone
Upgrades to Carnival Glory have left some passengers unhappy with construction and closed pools.
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Cruise crews still marooned at sea
Thousands of cruise ship employees are still aboard, some without pay, as cruise lines struggle with plans for repatriation.
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Cruise ship overhauls on hold
The virus crisis and shutdown of cruising have led cruise lines to shut down upgrade plans and possibly wait for new ships.
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'Flying Dutchman' ends 15-week cruise
Coronavirus fears cancelled all port calls for Costa Delioza's last five weeks at sea, allowing the ship to become a virus-free bubble.
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Cruising into uncharted waters
When cruising resumes, there will be some new rules and procedures on board; here's a preview from industry discussion.
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Cruise ship workers: 'no direction home'?
Over 70,000 cruise ship workers are trapped aboard idled vessels in U.S. waters, with thousands more elsewhere as plans for getting home stall.
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The RiverWalk and Outlet Collection - New Orleans, Louisiana
Samantha and her husband had a wonderful time walking around the RiverWalk in NOLA. They saw the Mississippi River, the Creole Queen Ship & the Outlet Collection.
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Royal Caribbean: Buffet sailing into sunset
Those famous cruise ship buffets may soon be a thing of the past, with maybe a distant future; cruise fans are split on the issue.