Category: Cruises
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The story behind Disney Cruise Line’s new shows
Kevin Eld is one busy man. As vice president for Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment, he oversees all forms of Disney entertainment, from parades, theatrical shows, fireworks, water shows and other spectaculars you see at its worldwide theme parks and resorts to the Broadway-style shows aboard Disney Cruise Line ships. On the recent media preview…
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Cruise ship review: Carnival Cruise Lines’ Carnival Spirit
What’s it like to sail on a Carnival ship? USA TODAY’s new cruise review site, VacationCruisesInfo.com, offers a glimpse this week in a new in-depth review of one of the line’s vessels, the Carnival Spirit. At 65 pages, it’s the most extensive appraisal of the 10-year-old Carnival Spirit ever to be posted online, and it…
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Carnival unveils first George Lopez comedy club on ship
By Gene Sloan, USA TODAY Carnival Cruise Lines’ new partnership with comedian George Lopez kicks off today with the opening of a Lopez-branded comedy club on the Carnival Miracle. The Punchliner Comedy Club presented by George Lopez, as it’s being called, is a concept that eventually will go fleet-wide as part of the line’s massive…
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Travel Tidbits – The best family-friendly voyages
Mustique: Where sustainable meets sybaritic On this small private island, part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, eco-friendly is the new glamorous… Globe and Mail The best family-friendly voyages More and more families are thinking of taking a cruise holiday so the cruise companies are trying harder to make them choose their particular…
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Travel Tidbits – 5 Reasons to Travel with Kids, Ten things you didn’t know about New York and more
5 Reasons to Travel with Kids Every parent knows that travel with kids is unpredictable, difficult, and in some ways limiting… Conde Nast Traveler World’s most expensive cruise The world’s most expensive luxury cruise package is up for grabs … Sydney Morning Herald The coldest shows on earth Winter music festivals are…
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Travel Tidbits – Mississippi, Disney dining, Portland and more
‘The Help’ puts tourist spotlight on Mississippi Fans of The Help, the bestselling 2009 novel and new movie about the fictional lives of black housekeepers and the white women who employ them in 1960s Mississippi, are getting some help of their own in exploring the story’s real-life settings… USA Today Disney dining gets a…
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Travel Tidbits – Cruise lines update old ships with new tricks
Delta: All Shuttle flights now have in-flight Wi-Fi Delta Air Lines says installed in-flight Wi-Fi on all of its Delta Shuttle aircraft… USA Today Celebrity Announces a Second Ship for the U.K. in 2013 Such has been the success of Celebrity Cruises’ summer season out of Southampton on Celebrity Eclipse that…
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More new ships on the way for Viking River Cruises
Just how big is the boom in river cruising in Europe? Big enough that Europe river cruise giant Viking is ordering six more new ships for 2013, on top of six vessels on the way this year. In announcing the ambitious move on Wednesday, Viking said all of the vessels will be what it is…
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Travel Tidbits – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ride to debut at Nickelodeon Universe
‘Relish’ these scrumptious burgers, shakes In the past few years everyone and their brother has opened a newfangled burger joint, including countless celebrity chefs… USA Today Early blooms for Cherry Blossom Festival Following an unusually mild winter in the Nation’s Capital, the star attractions of the March 20-April 17 National Cherry Blossom Festival…
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