Cruise Week Florida correspondent Art Sbarsky reports Holland America’s goal of attracting a younger and more diverse audience appears to be working well in the Caribbean, even during the school year. Here’s his report on the Oct. 23-30 Eurodam cruise to the Eastern Caribbean. Age Demographics There were 2,205 passengers onboard the cruise; the lower [...]
Florida wildlife officials were called to the world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, to deal with a little stowaway – a burrowing owl. The protected bird had landed itself on the mini-golf course on the ship’s upper deck, and was discovered before the Oasis departed from Port Everglades, near Fort Lauderdale, [...]
Recent history has shown that a single nightmarish sailing doesn’t impact bookings, but several agents expressed concerns to Cruise Week about the severity of the situation off of Mexico with Carnival Splendor. Cruise stocks dropped Tuesday, but Sharon Zacfia, of William Blair & Associates in Chicago, notes, “There’s a fair amount of coverage on Splendor, [...]
jerine, flickr Aircraft are some of the most sophisticated machines in the world, with computers systems so advanced that the planes could seemingly fly themselves (Ryanair’s always colorful CEO even suggested eliminating co-pilots). So just how much of what goes on during a commercial flight is automated by a computer? Perhaps more than you think. [...]
A new survey asked people to pick their ultimate fantasy cruise companion. Jennifer Aniston and Johnny Depp won out over other celebrities including Cameron Diaz, Angelina Jolie and George Clooney. But the survey, commissioned by the British Passenger Shipping Association, found most adults (53 percent) would by far rather take their partner or a friend [...]
Passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport had a bumpy ride, and the plane didn’t even take off. The DC-9 was supposed to be headed to Dayton, Ohio, when it blew a tire before take-off. And then it blew three more tires as it taxied off the runway, a Delta [...]
Disney Cruise Line executives led the first media visit to Disney Dream at Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, this week. And the ship was what you’d expect from Disney: dazzling. Workers are still putting on final touches, but the line issued iPads with virtual tours of all the rooms to show reporters their finished [...]
A New Zealand company has come up with a new kick for fans of extreme travel – driving a real tank. Tanks for Everything is located about a half-hour outside of Christchurch, on South Island, a place already known for such extreme activities as bungee jumping off a bridge. The tank experience is the brainchild [...]
Greek police have charged two U.S. tourists with desecrating the dead after finding six human skulls in their hand luggage. The unidentified young tourists told police they bought the skulls in a souvenir shop on the popular tourist island of Mykonos, and thought they were fake, Reuters reports. The grisly discovery was made at the [...]
Shareholders of United and Continental airlines voted to approve a merger that would create the world’s biggest airline. The companies say they expect the $3 billion stock swap to close Oct. 1. Regulators in the U.S. and Europe have already given the deal a green light. The vote for the merger topped 98 percent at [...]
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