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No Berth for Pregnant Woman

I recently came across this story about a pregnant woman denied boarding by Carnival at Port Canaveral. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a lack of communication. She claims that the information that she had, said that 27 weeks was the cutoff date. Perhaps she picked up an outdated brochure. Nonetheless, I have...

Dealing with Emergencies on Board

We will never know the real happenings of the events that took place in the previous post, unless we were flies on the wall. But whatever the outcome of the story, it is important that every cruiser have a plan for emergencies as unlikely as they are to occur. Remember the fire...

Death at Sea

I recently came across an article about the mishandling of a medical incident onboard Holland America’s MS Rotterdam. The wife of the deceased feels that the doctor responded inappropriately to her several calls to his office in which she described her husband’s deteriorating condition. According to her, the doctor even wrote in...

Europe Cruise Values

Cruise Bug has been working on an exciting new project for the past few months. Keep watching for updates. A few posts ago, I wrote about the value of cruising in Europe. I still believe that cruising in Europe costs less than a comparable land vacation especially with the high costs of...

Raising Fuel Supplement Fees

The cost of oil continues to effect all of us. For cruisers, that means in the form of increased costs in transportation fees to the port in addition to the fuel supplement fees that cruise lines now levy against passengers. When will this end? Below are the details of this new increase:...