Cruise Ships

Cruise Passenger Meeting Hall

2005-05-18T19:57:00.000-07:00

A great place for passengers who are about to go on a cruise to meet and correspond with others who may be going on the same cruise is located at http://www.cruise2.com/MeetingHall.html. You can list your name and email address if you wish and correspond with others prior to your trip. Some of the other passengers may have already sailed on the ship in the past and can give you some tips on what to expect, what to do, where to eat and which land tours to take.

And for those passengers who have already sailed on a cruise there is a location at this Meeting Hall to register so that you can offer people your thoughts about the cruise and talk with others who were on the same cruise and you would like to share some thoughts with.

3 Ocean Liners still offer World Cruises

2005-05-17T08:04:00.000-07:00

There is no better way to travel the World than on a luxury Cruise Liner. You only have to pack you clothes once. You don't have to check in and out of hotels. You don't have to get a taxi to and from the hotels. You don't have to wait in line at airports that take up the whole day to travel from one location to another. You don't have to worry about security. Your tours at each city are already planned out for you and you can eat the local food or the food on the ship if you are worried about problems with your diet or your reaction to foreign food.

More and more people are visiting the best cities around the World via luxury Cruise Liners for all the reasons listed above as well as the best reason....the COST. It is so much cheaper to travel the World and see all the wonderful sites via a Cruise Ship than flying to each city and staying at hotels. You still get the chance to take in all the local culture as most ships arrive at the destination port in the early morning and don't leave until dark. Sometimes the ship will stay in port for 2 or 3 days so that you can see everything including the night life.

Cunard's QE2 has been doing Round the World cruises for many years and has it down perfectly. The QE2 leaves New York City in Jan. each year for a 109 day World Cruise that takes the passenger to 42 different ports in 27 countries including the Panama Canal, across the South Pacific to New Zealand and Australia, through the Far East to India, Arabia and Europe, then crosses the North Atlantic from England and returns to New York City. Fares start at $34,000 which works out to $312 per day per person.

P&O Cruises will sail you Round the World in 80 days starting in Jan. from Southampton, England on the 1,870 passenger Aurora. The cruise takes in 25 ports of call including Pago Pago, Fiji, Auckland and several calls in Australia. In Asia, discover Bangkok, Kuala Lumjpur, Penang and Sri Lanka. Then head to India and Egypt, transit the Suez Canal and eventually lay at anchor in the Mediterranean for Athens and Rome before sailing back to Southampton. Fares start at $14,550 which works out to $182 per day per person.

And Radisson Seven Seas Cruises uses it's 700 passenger Seven Seas Voyager will all-suite, all-balcony accomodations for it's 109 day Round the World cruise leaving in Jan. Start in Los Angeles to Sydney and then on to 45 ports in 28 countries. Fares start at $50,000 which includes round-trip first-class air from North American and a $2,000 onboard credit. This works out to $ 459 per day per person.

All three ships offer shorter segments as short as 14 days so that you do not need to take the entire cruise if desired. Fares vary for each shorter segment.

Cruise Ship Jobs

2005-05-14T18:44:00.000-07:00

There are several web sites that offer message boards, resume postings and Cruise Career Guides located at www.cruise4.com/Employment.html

Another 158,000 Ton RCI Ship Ordered

2005-05-12T15:40:00.000-07:00

Royal Caribbean has ordered a 3rd Freedom Class ship to be delivered in early 2006. The ship will be 158,000 gross registered tons equipped with 1,800 cabins that accommodate 3,600 guests at a cost of $230,000 per berth.

NCL orders another new ship

2005-05-05T11:23:00.000-07:00

Norwegain Cruise Line has ordered a new ship that will cost about $510 million. The 2,384 passenger vessel will be built at the German shipyard Meyer Werft for delivery in the fall of 2007. With this order, NCL has five ships in the pipeline and has budgeted close to $4 billion on fleet modernization.

Cruise Bulletin Board

2005-05-04T09:16:00.000-07:00

Anyone interested in asking questions about anything to do with Cruising can go to http://www.cruise2.com/bulletins/questions.html where a lively group of people talk about cruising daily. There are no questions to dumb to ask as there are plenty of cruise professionals who monitor this board to help people interested in taking a cruise.

Classic Cruise Liner Photos

2005-05-03T08:57:00.000-07:00

If you love the old classic Ocean Liners, then visit http://www.cruise2.com/CruiseLinerGallery.html where there are hundreds of photos of Classic Cruise Liners.

ss Norway

2005-04-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

I had just finished a 3 week stay on the ssNorway when on the morning of 5/25/03, the ship shook and I knew at that moment that something was seriously wrong. We were docked in Miami and it took about 3 minutes until the alarm system started to sound. The room stewards were going cabin to cabin telling the guests to put on their life jackets and move quickly to the life boat stations. I got there in about 5 minutes and we all lined up facing the large windows on the Interenational Deck. We could see the traffic on the causeway accross the waterway and no one seemed to be looking at the ship. It seemed like a long time until the Captain came on the public address system to explain that there had been an explosion in the engine room and a small fire that had now been put out. He asked that we all cooperate and stay in our current positions so the medical staff could assist those crew members that we injured.

After about an hour, we were told to return to our cabins, gather whatever we could carry to proceed to exit the ship. Once outside, we were met with 20 to 30 fire trucks and police vehicles. We were directed to move away from the ship to a baggage warehouse to the East of the NCL pier. We were also told by NCL personnel that our luggage would have to be taken off the ship after the medical people were through and then shipped to our home. We would not be able to retreive it until all medical equipment was finished.

We later found out that 8 crew members were killed from the explosion of a boiler in the engine room. Another 17 crew members were injured. That was the LAST cruise the venerable ssNorway would make. It was taken to a European shipyard and just recently it was announced that the Norway will be moved to Malaysian where the NCL parent, Star Cruises, will have a yet to be announced roll for the ship since reparing it was too costly and it was saved from scrap by Star.

The NTSB investigating the explosion has not yet released a final report as to the cause of the explosion and the has not yet drawn any conclusions.

Cruise Expert

2005-04-29T09:34:00.000-07:00

Having sailed on over 150 cruises on everything from 1 day gambling ships to the Queen Mary 2, I consider myself a true "Cruise Expert" and would love to be able to help others who are interested in taking a cruise for the first time or who have cruised befor and want a new experience. I have sailed on the QE2 many times crossing the Atlantic from Southampton to New York and visa versa, have sailed on all the RCI "..of the Seas" ships and enjoyed very much the repositioning trip from Miami to Spain taking 14 days.....I have also helped set up the Casino operation on a cruise line many years ago and understand how the cruise lines run their casinos....I love cruising so much that i openned a non-profit web site called cruise2.com, located at www.cruise2.com in 1997 and have been endorsed by The Miami Herald, The Washington Post, USA Today, CNN and the BBC as being one of the best sources for cruising on the internet. The site is now over 4,000 pages on information including a FREE Cabin Exchange were visitors can list the cruises they are interested in and travel agents can list the best deals they have to offer. There are Cruise Ship Profiles, Cruise Line Profiles, Passenger Comments, Ship Deck Plans, and so much more. I welcome anyone interested in advice on which cruise is best suited for their needs and desires and others who have sailed often to add their comments as well....