Camp Carnival My recent 4-night cruise to Canada from Boston on the Carnival Glory provided me with the opportunity to interview the Camp Carnival Youth Director, Heather Carrick from Canada. Heather has only been the Youth Director for a few months after her recent promotion, but she has been with Carnival for almost five years… Read More
Carnival Glory in port in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada If you’ve been following along recently, you’ve seen that I was just recently onboard the Carnival Glory out of Boston to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada for a 4-night cruise. The Carnival Glory is a Conquest-class ship that was built in Italy and went into… Read More
As we all know, all good things must come to an end and so our family cruise is now ending as we return to port in Boston. The ship was expected to arrive into port at around 5 am and we could begin disembarkation after 7:30 am. We received information in our cabins regarding the… Read More
The other night I was listening to my favorite cruise podcast, Cruize Cast, when I heard one of the hosts, James, mention how he couldn’t understand why someone would want to cruise out of San Juan. He explained that he thought because airfare was so expensive flying to Puerto Rico that it wouldn’t be cost… Read More
Today was the inaugural non-stop flight from Boston to St. Thomas on JetBlue and yours truly was lucky enough to be on the flight. I was invited to visit the US Virgin Islands and my trip is sponsored in part by the USVI and JetBlue. Anyone that knows me knows that I am not a… Read More
Although I may not be traveling this week, I was eagerly anticipating going to the Boston Vegetarian Festivall this weekend. This is the 16th year that the festival is being held in Boston at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center at 1350 Tremont Street. Easily accessible by the T (the T-stop’s Orange Line Roxbury Crossing station… Read More
LATE BREAKING NEWS: Two passengers onboard the Norwegian Dawn, a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, that docked this morning at the Black Falcon Cruise terminal in Boston, died. These are considered separate incidents and State Police were on the scene after the ship docked at 6:30 am. According to the Boston Globe, the first passenger was… Read More
On a cold, rainy day in Boston in October (October 20, 2011), I ventured off for a ship inspection on a MSC Cruises ship, the MSC Poesia. I parked at the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal/Cruiseport Boston and fully expected to walk over to the same spot where the NCL Dawn was docked for our cruise… Read More
Although we live in Boston, we have never sailed out of our home port so why not try it out? We decided on a Bermuda cruise out of Boston on Norwegian Cruise Line and the Dawn and I am so glad we did. As mentioned in a prior post, we decided to spend the night… Read More
Who doesn’t like seeing their ship in the distance the day of your cruise? The image of the ship in the distance grows larger as you approach it and so does the anticipation of the cruise you are about to embark on, be it your first cruise or not. I had the chance to tour… Read More
