It's the midst of peak cruising season, and millions of travelers are eagerly embarking on exotic vacations without thinking they could ever fall victim to a crime at sea.
A cruise ship resumed its voyage to Cozumel, Mexico, on Tuesday after the Coast Guard released it from the search for a 50-year-old woman believed to have fallen overboard late Monday.
Cruising isn't what it used to be. Just ask Steve Roberts, who recently sailed from Costa Maya, Mexico, to Nassau, Bahamas on the Carnival Glory.
Todd Hawkins never figured himself for a cruising kind of guy. He grew up camping and still loves long road trips. But he got married to someone whose family vacation style couldn't have been more different.
The cruise industry's traditional peak season for promotions and bookings may be drawing to a close, but travelers ready to set sail are still in a good position for savings.
More than 1,000 British tourists on a round-the-world cruise were ushered to safety amid fears their ship was being followed by pirates, a travel company said Thursday.
Up on the Lido Deck there is a rockin' band playing another love song.
Our ship hadn't quite left port when I handed my teenager a present: a lovely leather-bound notebook with lined pages and a variety of colorful pens. His mission was to keep a cruise journal, a tell-all, remember-the-moments account of his days (and nights) on the high seas.
The Coast Guard is searching for a cruise ship employee who fell overboard early Thursday off Florida's east coast.
A 30,000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend, the ship's owner said Monday.
It's the midst of peak cruising season, and millions of travelers are eagerly embarking on exotic vacations without thinking they could ever fall victim to a crime at sea.
A cruise ship resumed its voyage to Cozumel, Mexico, on Tuesday after the Coast Guard released it from the search for a 50-year-old woman believed to have fallen overboard late Monday.
Cruising isn't what it used to be. Just ask Steve Roberts, who recently sailed from Costa Maya, Mexico, to Nassau, Bahamas on the Carnival Glory.
Todd Hawkins never figured himself for a cruising kind of guy. He grew up camping and still loves long road trips. But he got married to someone whose family vacation style couldn't have been more different.
The cruise industry's traditional peak season for promotions and bookings may be drawing to a close, but travelers ready to set sail are still in a good position for savings.
More than 1,000 British tourists on a round-the-world cruise were ushered to safety amid fears their ship was being followed by pirates, a travel company said Thursday.
Up on the Lido Deck there is a rockin' band playing another love song.
Our ship hadn't quite left port when I handed my teenager a present: a lovely leather-bound notebook with lined pages and a variety of colorful pens. His mission was to keep a cruise journal, a tell-all, remember-the-moments account of his days (and nights) on the high seas.
The Coast Guard is searching for a cruise ship employee who fell overboard early Thursday off Florida's east coast.
A 30,000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend, the ship's owner said Monday.
While cruise lines have drawn criticism from eco-watchdogs for years, addressing environmental issues has become one of the industry's top priorities.
Vacation season is nearly over, and kids are returning to school with the telltale tans and smiles that mean they had a wonderful and relaxing holiday.
Flying solo? Prepare to pay up.
Violence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is holding back the nation's dreams of building a viable tourism industry, despite its success in neighboring Caribbean nations
When Jerry Leonard and his wife transfer from their cruise ship to a train, they give Princess their luggage, which includes a bottle of Cognac. The luggage is lost and later found, but the cruise line confiscates the Cognac. Should it replace the bottle -- or is he out of luck?
What's not to like -- from a kid's perspective anyway.
Your cruise ship may not be seaworthy. Your airline isn't responsible for your checked luggage and if something's stolen from your room, good luck getting the hotel to cover your losses.
There are more than 160 ships in the fleets of the 24 major cruise lines and more than 7,500 itineraries, from Alaska to Zanzibar. So how do you decide which one most suits your style? Follow these 10 steps to ensure smooth sailing:
Thinking of taking a cruise? Then you picked the right time -- and you're reading the right story.
Happy family cruises are all alike because they allow parents and kids to each be happy in his or her own way. A parent of a toddler, for instance, might be happiest with a cruise that provides trustworthy child-care services at flexible hours. Children, of course, have their own priorities. A teen, say, will probably want lots of activities for socializing after 10 P.M.
It's increasingly popular--and surprisingly affordable--to set sail with the kids in tow. Find out ways to save when planning, booking, and cruising.
His mother is scheduled to fly to Hawaii with his aunt and cousin, where they plan to board a cruise. But hours before they leave, Lawrence Dean Parrish finds out that their flight schedules have been changed. Now his mother, who is 74 and suffers from glaucoma, is flying solo and his aunt and cousin are on another flight. Neither the travel agency nor the cruise line will help. Is her vacation sunk?
Tropical Storm Noel, which has killed at least 48 people, was moving away from the Cuban coast late Wednesday and strengthening over warm waters, prompting tropical storm watches to be issued for South Florida.
Tropical Storm Noel weakened Tuesday over most of Cuba after lashing the island's northern coast, but heavy rains continued to deluge the Dominican Republic, Haiti and portions of the Bahamas, forecasters said.
For older men who know the difference between a waltz and fox-trot, being a cruise ship host offers evenings in the dance floor spotlight and days in the ocean sunlight traveling to places they would have never seen otherwise.
Rescue authorities reported all five people aboard a small sightseeing plane were killed when it crashed in a mountainous area of southeast Alaska on Tuesday, a Princess Cruises spokeswoman said.
While the average traveler is as comfortable reserving a flight online as he or she is buying a book at Amazon, cruise sales are still largely the domain of travel agents. Only 8 percent of passengers book cruises online. But now that you can buy cruises through online agencies such as Expedia, and the meta-search engines Kayak and SideStep make it easy to do research, it's time to reevaluate your approach.
The operator of a Greek cruise ship that sank off the Aegean island of Santorini, leaving two people missing, has said human error was to blame.
The captain of the Sea Diamond cruise ship blamed currents for last week's sinking off a Greek island, state-run television reported Sunday.
Cruise line officials are trying to figure out how two passengers managed to fall at least 50 feet from a ship's balcony into the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, where they were rescued hours later.
It's wave season, when many vacationers book their cruises for later in the year. Wave season runs through the end of March and is a good time to reserve if you want to make sure you'll get your first choice of dates, itineraries and cabins.
EVERY FALL, cruise lines move their ships to warmer waters for the winter--and you can go along for the ride. These one-way repositioning, or "repo," cruises have unusual itineraries and more time ...
A Carnival Cruise ship assisted nine Cuban rafters adrift in the western Caribbean this week.
A cruise ship listed sharply off Port Canaveral, Florida, injuring at least 93 passengers, 16 of them seriously, according to the Cape Canaveral Fire Department.
There are a million things I didn't know about taking a cruise. For instance, this: Upon boarding, you're separated from your luggage for an indeterminate amount of time. Until then, you're stuck wearing what you're wearing. In the case of my cruise to Alaska aboard the Norwegian Sun, that would've meant jeans -- less than ideal when you have four hours to spend poolside before heading into the mist.
Authorities abandoned an air and sea search Wednesday for a 21-year-old man presumed to have fallen Monday from an ocean liner during a Caribbean cruise.
U.S. and Bahamian authorities conducted an air and sea search Tuesday for a 21-year-old man presumed to have fallen Monday from an ocean liner during a Caribbean cruise.
Some people love a cruise. Some people would rather get a root canal. If you're in the latter group, it may be because the word cruise brings to mind images of thousands of people lining up for the...
A fire broke out Thursday on the Jamaica-bound Star Princess cruise ship, and one person died of a heart attack, according to cruise line officials.
The company that owned the bus involved in a crash that killed 12 American tourists in Chile was not legally cleared to operate tours, officials said Thursday.
A bus carrying tourists on a side trip through the mountains of northern Chile plunged into a canyon Wednesday, killing 12 people, all of them American, authorities said.
Royal Caribbean International said Monday it plans to build a $1.2 billion cruise ship that will hold 5,400 guests.
Officials are searching for a "mother ship" believed to be used to launch high-speed boats for several recent pirate attacks off Somalia.
U.S. Navy personnel cleared unexploded ordnance from a luxury cruise ship Monday, two days after pirates attacked the vessel off Africa, the U.S. military said.
A luxury cruise line will re-evaluate whether to offer future cruises off the coast of Somalia after pirates attempted to attack one of its ships early Saturday.
what the bulls say
A record 10.5 million people set sail from North America in 2004, and bookings are running ahead of that pace this year.
Had a bad trip? It could have been a delayed flight, a cruise from hell, a hotel room in need of an exterminator...whatever the complaint, we hear you.
When people learn that Dr. John Bradberry is a ship's doctor the first question they ask is, "Do you wear white shorts?"
PASSENGERS TOSSED overboard and bribes palmed by port authorities—it's not exactly fodder for The Love Boat. But the real-life scandals of the $13 billion cruise-ship business make for quite a read...
Nearly 250 people on a seven-day Caribbean cruise were sickened by a Norwalk-like stomach virus, which officials believe was brought on board by a passenger previously exposed to it, the cruise line said Friday.
'Tis the season to spread the wealth. There's no better time to show appreciation to the people who provide services for you throughout the year.
Two years ago in the pages of FSB, I described my discovery that I was not a cruise person. I had been assigned to sail the Caribbean aboard a big, popular ship and report my findings. While everyo...
Passengers aboard the Italian cruise ship European Stars are being flown home while their ship remains in Barcelona until a dispute between the ship's builder and the cruise operator is resolved.
When college dropout Micky Arison became president of Carnival Cruise Lines in 1979 at the age of 30, his team embodied the party atmosphere advertised on its "fun ships." A hundred or so employees...
Everyone--or at least everyone who likes luxurious ocean voyages--was talking about the impossibly low cruise fares earlier this year. The cruise industry had built ships at a steady clip in the pa...
Sure, browse the brochures for a glossy glimpse of paradise -- just ignore the prices. As with hotels, there's no reason to pay list. Here's how to get the most for your cruise dollars.
There are dozens of special-interest cruises these days, focusing on subjects as wide-ranging as spy craft (with lectures by former intelligence agents), solar eclipses and golf. We can't even scratch the surface here. For a more comprehensive list, try www.cruise-news.com.
Super-low cruise prices, which were the norm in the post-9/11 travel lull, have sailed off into the sunset. Among other reasons: Travelers started taking notice of the growing number of ships departing port cities that were previously unassociated with cruising, like Baltimore and Seattle.
Right at the start I should say that I'm not a cruise person. If you've never taken a cruise, you're probably not one either, but there's a whole universe of travelers who are most definitely Cruis...
Even if you've never been on a cruise, you're likely familiar with the extremes of the cruise industry. At one end of the spectrum are Vegas-on-Water cruises, which feature a lot of everything: pas...
Cruise ships once evoked images of elegant floating palaces, but in the days since the Titanic's mahogany moldings sank into the North Atlantic, they've taken on an altogether more populist flavor....
At 142,000 tons and 3,838 berths, the Voyager of the Seas is no mere cruise ship--it's a theme park that floats. Scale Voyager's rock-climbing wall. Go ice skating--or in-line skating. Stroll the p...
In the Caribbean, hope is a big white boat. With the banana market in free fall, sugar prices soft, and industrialization as unlikely as ever, the islanders have been looking to companies with name...
As the cold, dark winter drags on and sun-drenched climes beckon, you may be considering a cruise--and wondering whether you should concern yourself with anything other than lido decks, silly drink...
Flying at 38,000 feet over the Baltic Sea, the chairman of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. grips his leather armrest and mulls a topic that's become irresistible in the post-James Cameron cruise indus...
With their impeccable pedigrees, blue-chip companies are the royalty of the investing world. But recently, many seem to be in danger of losing their crowns. At a time when the market as a whole is ...
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An escalating battle between cruise lines and resorts, as well as the growing popularity of time- share properties, is making vacationers forget about high-priced Europe this summer.
If you were caught up in the Mexican growth story--and who wasn't?--you may have bought heavily into a mutual fund that put cash into the Mexican bolsa. Or if you're the independent sort, you bough...
The recent overblown headlines about an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on a cruise ship have overshadowed the real news in cruising: A record shipbuilding spree now under way promises a tidal wa...
Wouldn't you rather have a hotel suite with a view of the sea for the price of a puny room overlooking the parking lot? Or a sporty compact convertible instead of a dull economy-size rental, at no ...
With more than 100,000 berths to fill -- 11,282 new ones this year alone -- cruise lines are handing out discounts faster than you can say bon voyage. Right now, most travel agents will slice 10% t...
Grab your Docksiders. There has never been a better time to get a deal on a cruise. With 90,000-plus berths to fill, cruise lines everywhere are offering steep discounts of 20% to 30%. In what foll...
Scrambling to save a sagging year, the travel industry is breathing hard and promoting heavily -- perks, packages, deep discounts, ''twofers'' -- the works. And jittery travelers, put off by worrie...
Betting that the '80s cruise boom will steam into the '90s, the industry finds itself building shipboard cabins faster than it can fill them -- 10,000 new berths for this year alone, or a 12% incre...
Next time you want to check out a new travel agent, use this simple test. Tell the agent that you and your spouse need a vacation. Someplace warm and relaxing but with night life. Ballpark of $3,00...
HIGH NOON on Lido Deck, somewhere in the Caribbean: As the cotton clouds play hide-and-seek with the sun, the gleaming white 48,000-ton cruise ship Jubilee, ! operated by Carnival Cruise Lines, slo...
SOMETIMES the best investment ideas come from basic observation of the way the world works. During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, for instance, Jim Rogers, then a partner of Wall Street wizard George ...
LIONS AND FAWNS may once again walk the halls of New York City's Plaza Hotel if Ivana Trump has her way. Very rich ladies used to bring along such exotic pets when they stayed there. But the carria...
The sea is alive with myths and legends. The condemned Flying Dutchman. The accursed Ancient Mariner. Or the saga of Moby Dick, the great white whale. But to the modern ocean traveler the most horr...
They may pay as little as $160 a day for a wee cabin down near the boiler room or as much as $3,500 a day for the penthouse suite atop the Queen Elizabeth 2. But whatever they spend, more and more ...
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