Come and join RTN on a Mediterranean Cruise and visit four of the best cities in Spain, France and Italy. FANCY A luxurious cruise this year? Why not book on RTN’s exclusive Royal Caribbean cruise, which is being promoted by Gandia Tours and starts in Barcelona on 7th May? This fantastic offer is only available [...]

The word “port” tends to come up when cruising is the topic of conversation: embarkation port, disembarkation port, ports of call, home ports, Ports and Bows … and now you can add one more to the list: interports. Interporting simply means the creation of a secondary embarkation and disembarkation on a cruise. Let’s use this [...]

When Steve and Kathy Ledtke planned to take a cruise from Civitavecchia, a small port town outside of Rome, Italy, through the Mediterranean Sea to locations like Marseille, France, Barcelona, Spain, and Palermo, Sicily, they didn’t realize what was in store for them as they boarded the Costa Concordia Friday, January 13. ——————————————————————— You must [...]

February 21, 2012 By: Susan Young   Photo by Susan J. Young Silversea Cruises has lowered fares on select voyages sailing March to November 2012, including a few expedition voyages.The new fares are available on dozens of sailings spanning the globe from Africa, Asia and the Americas to the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. It also offers [...]

February 21, 2012 By: Susan Young UBS Warburg‘s latest Cruise Data Tracker reports steady cruise pricing. “We continue to see no significant sequential declines in average prices, with week-over-week ticket prices looking somewhat flat sequentially for the third straight week, and up 1 percent since the start of the year,” an investors’ report issued today [...]

In better times, the Costa Concordia is shown on its Mediterranean sailings. (Handout) To cruise, or not to cruise. That’s a question even veteran cruisers are asking themselves with the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia off the Italian island of Giglio last month. Even as the cruise line industry tightens its safety procedures – with [...]

The guide and father would take tourists on shopping excursions, jaunts to Spanish colonial villages, zip line adventures and tastings at a distillery making a tequila-like liquor. Nowadays he sits idle. Cruise ships stopped calling on Mazatlán in 2011 over security concerns, driving down his business by 80% and forcing him to moonlight as a [...]

Guest writer Colim Sum takes on the Resident Evil Revelations 3DS game. By Colin Sum So, has Resident Evil Revelations for the Nintendo 3DS stayed true to its series origin as a survival horror game or is it just another action-fest like Resident Evil 5? At least, it doesn’t have any boulders you would need [...]

MSC Cruises opens up new destinations in Guadeloupe and Martinique Monday, 20 February 2012 13:24 Cruise MSC Cruises opens up new destinations in Guadeloupe and Martinique MSC Cruises have announced the introduction of the French Antilles as a new destination for the 2012-2013 winter season. Complemented by an extensive array of fascinating shore excursions, this [...]

Debuting in June 2013, Princess Cruises’ 3600-passenger Royal Princess is slated to sail on a maiden season of 12-day ‘Grand Mediterranean’ voyages between Barcelona and Venice. The nine sailings will call into Toulon, Livorno, Civitavecchia, Naples, Mykonos, Istanbul and Kusadasi before an overnight stay in Venice. An inaugural seven-day voyage setting sail on 16 June [...]