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So finally you can take a breath and rest from your job for a couple of weeks or so, but now there is a decision to make: what to do? Well maybe it is not as hard as you thought but your next decision certainly will be hard. Let’s say that you decided to take a cruise as you use to, but now you will be wondering…..which one can I choose? If you are wondering this it is because you don’t have enough information to compare caribbean cruises or about the destinies you could go to make a choice, or maybe there are several options that you are missing because you have not even seen or heard about them. Maybe the best vacation of your life is out there and you do not even know it.

Has this happened to you every time you want to take a cruise? Your cruise vacations have been boring or the places you met did not have what you were expecting? Well, now this will worry or bother you no more. Now you will be able to compare caribbean cruises with the help you will receive on-line to make your decision more easily.

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And, last but not lease important at all, the key information which is necessary to wisely compare caribbean cruises and choose the right one: the prices, but you do not need to worry, all of them will be inside your budget, so that will not be a problem at all.

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You will find the answers to all your questions about cruising in a very comforting and professional way so you can compare caribbean cruises. It is not necessary you wait months anymore to set sail on your first cruise or for taking a new one, now you can compare caribbean cruises with all the information you want and take the cruise you ever wanted. Make your dreams come true.

B Herrera is a freelance write for travel topics.

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A great cruise is much more than a journey. Blending the grandeur and nobility of seafaring with the imagination and style of the good life, it is my favorite way to explore the world. Moving up to a luxury ship helps make memories that endure forever.

The right ship or cruise line is one that makes you very comfortable and very special while fulfilling all your vacation desires. You need to look at the size of the vessel, the nature of the experience, the activities available, dining schedules, on board dress code and the style of service. Equally important are your itinerary, the type of accommodations, and the cost of the cruise, along with the inclusions that may be offered.

Ships in the luxury category are generally smaller than the mass-market vessels with passenger capacities ranging from less than 100 to near 900 and offer the most generously proportioned and inviting accommodation. Many of the staterooms will feature private verandah, sitting areas and rich décor and deluxe amenities. The standard of service you will enjoy can be measured by looking at the crew to guest ratios. Exceptional service will be found on ships that have a ratio of one (or more) crewmembers to every two guests and mirror the warmth and discretion of finest hospitality. The following unique cruising styles can be celebrated each in its own right - so you can choose to travel elegantly with companions who share your sensibilities.

Ultimate luxury cruises are quite formal and embody the ceremony of cruising, recalling the days when traveling by ship was an event in itself. Voyages in this category offer the ultimate travel experience and excellence in every detail. These cruises are breath taking in every respect and offer you an atmosphere of sumptuous refinement with service that is truly indulgent. Guests are treated to the finest meals in exquisite dining rooms and in a single seating. Jackets and ties are generally the rule for dinner and tuxedos are not uncommon with a dress code that is observed faithfully.

Casual elegance cruises offer a luxurious cruise experience with a “resort elegant” country club type of shipboard atmosphere. Windstar Cruises, vessels are wonderful examples for traveling in unregimented, graceful and subtle luxury. Shipboard lifestyle on this type of cruise is generally unstructured, with few organized activities. In keeping with the contemporary, easygoing atmosphere on board these ships, the style of dress is casually refined. Jackets, if worn, are casual and ties must be left at home! The dining experience is flawless with the added flexibility and convenience of open seating. You ennjoy dining at your leisure with your choice of new found friends. Ships in this category tend to be smaller and the service on board is of the highest calibre.

The last category of luxury cruise is “unique exploration”. You can explore many of the world’s most intriguing destinations while enjoying a friendly comfortable cruise experience. The ships in this category offer overall excellent cruise value. The ships themselves are anything by ordinary and each have their own unique features and highlights. The emphasis for these voyages is on the special itineraries.

Ports of call have been carefully selected to highlight the history and culture of each region. Each offer you the opportunity to experience, learn and explore. Most of the vessels in this class include an official guide or guest lecturer, theatres for lectures, enrichment programs and often an extensive library. The on board environment is relaxed and the service is very personal.

The dress is generally resort casual by day and varies for evening dining depending upon the ship. Whether experiencing an Antarctic expedition, the Amazon River or the national heritage of the legendary clipper ship, this class of cruising gives you a unique blend of style and adventure.

When choosing your next cruise, take time to examine the possibilities of Seabourn, Windstar, SeaDream Cunard, Radisson, Crystal, and Silversea. These cruise lines allow you to follow your own desires and inner rhythms, discovering your own unique vision of Utopia.

Bon Voyage

Sid Kaplan
http://www.cruisevacationsguide.com

Sid Kaplan has extensive experience in the travel business. He owned and operated a large retail cruise only agency in Canada and his wife has 25 years experience working for major cruise lines. Their website is Cruise Vacations Guide which offers advice and tips to those look to create memorable cruise vacations. Shore excursion and land tour information is also provided.

Are you going to a South American destination that requires travel by local or regional boats? Then you’d better think twice or prepare really well. Along Colombia’s Pacific coast, as an example, for an ocean voyage of from several hours up to more than two days, you may well be obligated to take a boat on which there are not only no creature comforts but also NO:

• Life vests or life preservers

• Life boats

• Toilets

• Chairs or seats

• Potable water

• interior lighting at night

• meals or food

There is likely to be poor ventilation and frequently passengers get seasick with no recourse or sanitation facilities of any kind. There might not be any reliable protection from elements like the broiling sun, cold, wind-swept rain or splashing waves, either. You could also be subjected to noxious fumes from cargo such as combustibles, solvents and other chemicals. We won’t even go into animal “products” from livestock being transported. Yipes!

The cargo boat on which you’ll sail will likely have no night running lights, be poorly maintained, and have an uneducated, untrained crew who must work literally around the clock. The job of two or more crew members is to stand in nearly calf-deep water in the cargo hold of the vessel and manually bail water leaking in from the multitudinous cracks and loose seams in the wooden hull. As usual, the vessel will be dangerously overloaded. During vacation and holiday seasons, it’ll be overloaded with cargo and overcrowded.

For example, one ship, licensed to carry eight to ten passengers routinely crams more than 100 passengers aboard under conditions resembling those depicted during the transport of slaves during the slave trade. Many other passenger-carrying vessels aren’t licensed for passengers at all. Registering sea-going vessels as “cargo boats only” relieves boat owners of any responsibility for providing even the barest of humane conditions. Boats sail past armada inspection craft - without being inspected. Captains and crew just “hide” passengers inside and out of sight until they’re well away from the port (and the armada). Travelers are simply viewed as an “extra money” commodity with no consideration whatsoever as to comfort. Forget the idea of “pleasure” entirely. You can pretty much also forget English-speaking officials, captains or crew members.

So why, you might ask, do travelers continue to put up with such archaic, unsanitary and perilous-at-best conditions that would be considered inhumane by any standards in the world? Simple. It’s because there are no alternatives. Cargo boat owners and captains are given “Carte Blanche” to revel in greed treating paying customers like cattle - or worse.

Yes, there are government regulations that mandate PFDs, life boats, sanitary facilities, having a potable water supply, ship to shore UHF / VHF radios and a satellite transceiver. Other essential equipment for ocean-going vessels including boats that ply the coastal waters from Panama to Peru include such items as night running lights after sunset, which can be as early as 4:30 pm, a compass, GPS locator and regular maintenance certificates in addition to crew and trip logs.

In the 1300 kilometers from Colombia’s southern region coastal city of Tumaco to Jurado, the northernmost port along Colombia’s Pacific coast, the sinking of fishing, cargo and passenger vessels with the resulting loss of life are all too common. During the past several months, a wave of sea-going vessel disappearances has stunned and dismayed populations of coastal communities in Colombia. We all grieve for these senseless deaths resulting from ignorance, apathy and avarice.

So if you’re going to a South American destination along the Pacific coast that requires travel by local or regional boat, you’d better think twice or prepare really well. Steps you can take to help ensure your personal safety will be discussed in the following article of this series entitled: “How to Ensure a Safe, Comfortable Sea Voyage When Traveling in Latin America”.

Larry M. Lynch is a writer and photographer specializing in business, travel, food and education-related writing in South America. His work has appeared in Transitions Abroad, South American Explorer, Escape From America, Mexico News and Brazil magazines in print and online. He travels researching articles throughout Latin America and teaches at a university in Cali, Colombia. To read more, express a comment or get original, exclusive articles and content for your newsletter, blog or website, contact the author at: lynchlarrym@gmail.com

For a long time vacation cruises have been considered mainly for adults and couples, but the cruise lines of today are rapidly changing all of that. Today, virtually all of the major cruise lines make cruises available that would be fun and enjoyable by all in the family, including kids. They offer a little something for everyone, so there is no reason that anyone in the family would ever be bored on one of these floating vacations. Let see what cruises for kids has to offer for your family.

The cruise line activity list for kids varies from one cruise to another, but they often include fun activities like pizza parties, water slides, miniature golf, video arcades, lots of games, magic shows, sports, science projects, art classes, and a lot more. All of this is of course, in addition to the swimming pools and jacuzzis on board that kids just seem to love.

Basically, on cruises for kids there is plenty to keep them happy and involved for as long as they want to be. In fact, there are even shore excursions that are often arranged for certain age groups to help them have fun at the ports of call that the ship visits.

All of this fun can often free up parents to be able to actually enjoy their vacation time too without having to constantly come up with things to keep the kids busy and involved. That means more alone time for them in activities that appeal more to them, and each cruise line makes sure that there is plenty of adult fun to be had too.

Many cruise lines even offer both private and group babysitting as an alternative for parents whose children are at least six months old. But all of them that feature cruises with kids have age specific entertainment and programs where kids can get to know others their own age and make friends while under the constant supervision of trained professionals. And of course, parents can keep a watchful eye on their kids as often as they like to make sure that everything is going well.

So if you have tried all of the other vacation ideas or just want to experience something completely different why not consider cruises with kids that let you take your whole family with you and make sure that everyone will have plenty of fun and good times?

Thad Pickering writes on many consumer related topics including vacation travel. You can find out more about royal carribean cruise lines and discount disney cruises by visiting our Vacation Guide website.

Have you ever dreamt about living on a Cruise Ship forever?

Traveling the world, seeing all kinds of exotic places, cruising forever with not a care in the world.

It is now a reality, and several possibilities exist.

1. The World of ResidenSea was launched in 2002 as a condominium-style residential community contained on a 644-foot cruise ship, complete with restaurants, a spa and fitness center and other amenities similar to what you’d find on a typical mid-size cruise liner.

As with land-based condo resorts, short-term rentals of a week or more may be arranged without committing to ownership, and a wide range of ports is included on The World’s ongoing circumnavigation of the globe.
Residensea has problems.

-disputes between owners of Condos on the ship and tourists.
Owners want to stay in exciting ports for several days, tourists that the ship needs to get full occupancy to cover the cost of unsold suites want to move from port to port every day.

Sales of actual condos on the ship have stalled due to fears of terrorism, uncertainty in financial markets and uncertainty about the future of the ship.

Annual maintenance costs run at $100,000 per suite while an actual suite now costs 1.9 to 4 million dollars.
This ad recently appeared on the Internet:

“Rent an outside luxury cabin
from $600 a day”
From somebody who owns 2 cabins on the ResidenSea.
That runs to $18,000 per month.

2. Join an organization that will buy a used Cruise Ship and convert it to Condos.

This concept has been tried and failed.

The practical problems were just too great.

-Trying to get enough people interested
-Trying to get commitments from people
-Trying to find a ship that was not going to fall apart immediately upon leaving the harbor
-Trying to get cash from people before a ship was bought.
And these were just problems BEFORE a ship was even bought.

Think about the problems there would be after the ship was bought.

3. Buy regular cruises on an on-going basis.

This seems the only practical way in which you can live permanently on a Cruise Ship.

Here are the estimated costs based on double occupancy starting on the cheap:

Basic Cruise Costs; $100 per day x 2 people = $6000 per month
This includes gratuities, all you can eat and port costs.

Independent costs of living for Seniors seems to be about $2000 per month per person = $4000
This includes food.

So for $2000 per month extra a couple can live on a Cruise Ship (or ships) forever.

The advantages of this type of living if you have that extra $24,000 per year to spend are these:

-Quality of the meals on a Cruise Ship is probably a lot better than what you would get in an independent living type of situation.

-You can vary cruise lines, use a Caribbean Cruise Line this month, an Alaska Line next month
and a European Line for the next 6 months.

-Shows every night.

-Built-in new friends every week or so. Most cruises end within 7 days and a new crop of potential friends arrives for you to interact with.

-An entire Cruise Staff to help you with ANYTHING if you have a problem.

So, if you want to live on a Cruise Ship: $24,000 a year is all it takes for 2 people.

J Shipper is very interested in living on a Cruise Ship forever and in traveling the world. Check out these sites for more information:

http://www.2qz.com/condo-cruise-ship
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With the surge of interest in spas and spa practices like massage, facials, saunas, and acupuncture among landlubbers, it’s no wonder that more cruise lines are starting to incorporate spa services into their normal on-deck beauty amenities. The addition of spa services means that travelers can take a luxury cruise to a far-flung location like Bali without losing the comforts of home, and the refreshing services of their local spa.

Crystal Cruise lines is a chief in spa vacations within the luxury cruise dispatch experience. On timber the gemstone Symphony, the 5,000 straight foot gemstone Spa and store offers beauty, vigor and spa services. The Symphony’s spa adheres to the principles of feng shui and offers ocean views throughout its gathering and gym. Guests can take from aerobic, yoga or Pilates classes, open weights, and private training. gemstone Symphony also offers a specially-tailored food for those who want to keep a exclusive diet during their cruise vacation.

Spa vacations have also been incorporated into cruising post with Silversea Cruises and renown Cruises. The renown Millennium skin an AquaSpa SM aboard the ship, with a 25,000-square-foot service with 16 therapy rooms and a vigor center with panoramic views.Services existing at the spa enter manicures, facials, and massages. At the vigor center, guests can take a vigor class and hire a private trainer.

We have had a lot of fun during the first portion of this article and hopefully you feel as though you have a firm grasp on the topic.

Silversea Cruises’ spa vacations are run by the prominent Mandara Spa, which offers a comprehensive list of fitness, beauty and spa treatments on all Silversea cruise ships. Guests can take from an extraordinary spa menu incorporating exotic, classic and cutting-edge fitness and beauty programs. In this way, passengers get a risk to explore different sorts of spa amenities while they explore the exotic ports of call on their itineraries.

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