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Ship of No Fools

Source: Patheos Blogs, Dec 7 2012, 4:01pm CST

To the guard patrolling the big parking lot at Tempe Marketplace on the night before Thanksgiving, I must have seemed less Rosa Parks than Ignatius J. Reilly. When he spotted me from his golf cart at the beginning of h ...

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Learn How You Could Win a Disney Cruise Line Vacation

Source: Dinsey Parks Blog  |   Jun 17 2013, 1:30pm CDT

Would you like to win a Disney Cruise Line vacation and help solve a Disney mystery? Then register now to enter the Catch Stitch! Sweepstakes. In it, Stitch, the popular character from “Lilo and Stitch,” ha ...

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2 days ago

Britons' Attitudes to Cruises Show Significant Opportunities for UK Travel Agents, Suggests New Research by Amadeus

Source: iStockAnalyst  |   Jun 16 2013, 5:56pm CDT

New figures released today by Amadeus, a leading technology partner for the global travel industry, show that there are great opportunities ahead for travel agents to capitalise on UK travellers' appetites for cruise holidays, with many being temp ...

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27 weeks ago


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"Yeah, I'd like to get half-crocked, lose some money at the slots and swap Chesterton quotes with a couple of Catholic media heavies"


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Kate Middleton names the Royal Princess

Source: Daily Mail - UK  |   Jun 16 2013, 5:20am CDT

It's a truth universally acknowledged in the holiday business that customer satisfaction depends on expectations being exceeded. New cruise ships need a wow factor. We want to be astonished. Princess Cruises has managed the unusual f ...

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4 days ago

The Royal wave: Step aboard superliner launched by Kate

Source: The Sun  |   Jun 14 2013, 6:32pm CDT

The superliner has an amazing glass-bottomed SeaWalk you can daringly stride along — 128ft above the waves. Along with the largest outdoor cinema screen and pastry shop at sea, it helps the 3,560-passenger cruise ship — named by the Duchess of Cambridge ...

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4 days ago

The hotel that's ship shape! South Korean holiday destination that is designed to look like a cruise liner (perfect for anyone with sea sickness!)

Source: Daily Mail - UK  |   Jun 14 2013, 12:10pm CDT

The Sun Cruise resort in Jeongdongjin, South Korea, sits atop a cliffGuests can play golf and do karaoke on board the 30,000-ton ship At first glance, it looks like millions of pounds of ocean liner has run aground on rocks. Thankfully ...

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5 days ago

Can we trust the cruise lines’ new passenger bill of rights?

Source: The Washington Post  |   Jun 13 2013, 5:18pm CDT

Maybe it was the string of customer-service disasters, starting with the Costa Concordia tragedy last year and leading up to the recent Carnival Triumph “poop” cruise, on which passengers were left adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for five days without worki ...

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5 days ago

Carnival Triumph Sets First Sail After 'Cruise From Hell'

Source: KUHF Houston Galveston  |   Jun 13 2013, 3:28pm CDT

Looking at the 102 ton, 900 foot Triumph, it's hard to imagine passengers had nicknamed their experience the "cruise from hell." Lorraine Jackson from Mount Bellvue was on that ill-fated cruise in February. She and ...

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Carnival Triumph returns to the high seas after millions in repairs

Source: Houston Business Journal  |   Jun 13 2013, 2:48pm CDT

Shaun Bevan covers tourism, hospitality, retail and restaurants. Click through the slideshow to see photos of the ship's upgrades. The infamous Carnival Triumph returns to year-round service Thursday after several mont ...

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Ireland's first cruise facility to be built in Belfast

Source: Belfast Telegraph  |   Jun 13 2013, 5:24am CDT

The £7 million investment will ensure that Belfast will be able to handle all cruise ships operating in the Irish Sea, as well as next generation ships which carry over 4,500 passengers and crew, a harbour spoke ...

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