Why cruise ship smoking restrictions will stick this time

Last week, Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) changed their smoking policy. Effective next year, smoking in NCL’s ships’ staterooms is banned, along with all indoor areas of NCL’s ships except in the casino and cigar bars. Smoking outdoors will be confined...

Cruise safety and personal responsibility

In 2009, a 14 year old youngster, Taylor W., couldn’t sleep. Taylor left the cabin she was sharing with her parents on the Carnival Freedom and went alone to an upper deck of the ship to write in her journal. It was there, that a Carnival cruise line employee,...

5 Reasons to visit New Orleans right now

We have a new writer, Chris Gray Faust, the former travel editor at USA TODAY, joining our group for occasional posts. Five Reasons is a regular feature on her blog, Chris Around the World, where she outlines the reasons why a destination is hot right now, like New...