by Christopher Elliott | Feb 8, 2023
You have been issued a cruise credit! Now what? A week before Carolynne James’s Rhine river cruise last spring, she got some bad news: Uniworld had canceled her sailing and issued a future cruise credit. But James, a retired office administrator from Columbia,...
by Ned S. Levi | Jun 17, 2019
These cruise travel safety tips must be linked with commonsense. Cruising is one of the safer forms of travel. Most cruise travelers have great journeys without incident. Even though cruise ships are relatively safe, just like on any form of travel, each cruiser must...
by Ned S. Levi | Oct 15, 2018
Check any cruise ship upgrade carefully. It may be what you really want. Recently, during lunch with a friend, he received a call from his travel agent telling him his cruise line was offering him the opportunity to buy a heavily discounted cabin upgrade to a...
by Ned S. Levi | Oct 17, 2016
When planning a Caribbean adventure, here are six hurricane cruise considerations. On September 29, tropical storm Matthew, then in the eastern Caribbean, was declared a hurricane. Matthew hit Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas before slamming into Florida, Georgia, South...
by Ned S. Levi | Apr 25, 2016
I enjoy cruising. During the last two decades I’ve been to every continent, save Australia, by cruise ship. While cruising isn’t the optimal way to travel everywhere, it can be lots of fun, and a marvelous way to travel to many locales. Often, cruisers...
by Charles McCool | Mar 3, 2016
We became empty nesters when our twins left for college, and for the first time in 19 years we were back to living as a couple (at least until fall break). We certainly missed our kids and, frankly, we were a little jealous of the new lives they were off to enjoy....
