Ways to Save Money on Booking a Cruise

Getting the best deal on booking a cruise is a process very much like getting the best fare on a flight. Like all businesses, cruise lines want to get the most for every cabin and, like the airlines at the moment of departure, anything unsold has no future value. Economists call these items non-fungible, meaningContinue reading “Ways to Save Money on Booking a Cruise”

Repositioning Cruises, Another Side of Cruising

  A repositioning cruise traditionally is when a cruise company needs to move ships from one seasonal location to another. Winter is cruising season in the Caribbean while Europe is a Summer market. For that reason dozens of cruise ships head out across the Atlantic every Spring. These Atlantic crossing occur  twice a year andContinue reading “Repositioning Cruises, Another Side of Cruising”

Beating The Jones Act

Our One-Time Getting Around The Jones Act For a refresher on the Jones Act see Cruising and the Jones Act Here. Back in 2016 we booked a back-to-back set of cruises with Celebrity. The first cruise was an Alaska cruise starting in Seattle and finishing in Vancouver. The second cruise continued on from Vancouver andContinue reading “Beating The Jones Act”

The True Cost of Paradise*

It’s Those Hurricanes! We visited St. Croix not long after hurricane Maria, having not been there in over fifteen years. We scheduled this trip last summer, long before hurricane Maria made a visit. Our original plan was to visit some old haunts and see which friends were still around. Unfortunately this trip became more aContinue reading “The True Cost of Paradise*”

The Cost of Paradise*

It’s The Hurricanes! We visited St. Croix not long after hurricane Maria having not been there in over fifteen years. We scheduled this trip last summer, long before hurricane Maria made a visit. Our original plan was to visit some old haunts and see what friends were still around. Unfortunately this trip became more aContinue reading “The Cost of Paradise*”

St. Thomas USVI, An American Paradise

St. Thomas was the very first Caribbean island I ever visited and that was over fifty years ago. Over the next couple of years I had reason to go back often and even today I get back to St. Thomas every couple of years. I also frequently return to those times on St. Thomas inContinue reading “St. Thomas USVI, An American Paradise”