Disney Ruins Family Vacation By Not Letting Adopted Child On CruiseNews from The Consumerist: When Betsy and her husband Karson were preparing to take their family on a Disney cruise, they knew they’d have to be prepared. Their son Beckham, is adopted, and realized Disney has a policy that each child needs a birth certificate [...]
$ 1.5 Million Cruise and 4 More Crazy Expensive VacationsNews from ABC News: Get ready for vacation sticker shock. While many are still watching their travel dollars closely, there are plenty of people willing to pony up for ultra-lavish vacations. Silversea’s latest world cruise has just been announced for 2013 — at a cost of [...]
AAA Travel Experts Offer Five Cruise Safety TipsNews from Sacramento Bee: ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 31, 2012 – Cruising remains an attractive vacation option for millions of North Americans ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — AAA Travel cruise experts say cruising remains a popular choice for North American vacationers. More than 16 million cruise passengers sailed [...]
Family: Minn. couple missing since cruise ship disaster not among recently …News from Washington Post: MINNEAPOLIS — The children of a Minnesota couple missing since last week’s cruise ship disaster in Italy said Wednesday their parents are not among those passengers whose bodies were recently recovered. Family members posted the information on their blog, and [...]
Family Home Safe After Cruise DisasterNews from MyFox Chicago: Updated: Monday, 16 Jan 2012, 9:57 PM CSTPublished : Monday, 16 Jan 2012, 9:42 PM CST Richmond, Ill. – For the Salzburg family of Richmond, Ill., their dream vacation turned into a nightmare within just a few hours of setting out to sea on the Costa [...]
Sears Holdings and International Cruise & Excursions, Inc. Announce Launch of …News from Sacramento Bee: SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 13, 2011 – /PRNewswire-iReach/ — International Cruise & Excursions, Inc. (ICE), together with Sears Holdings announced the launch of a new business license agreement to provide the leisure and travel program, Sears Vacations, designed exclusively for Sears’ [...]
The Holland America Zuiderdam: An AOL Travel Cruise Ship GuideNews from Huffington Post: The Holland America Zuiderdam is a popular floating resort. The waters are crowded with sea-worthy vessels, so to make planning easier, we’ve done all the prep work for a cruise vacation. As part of a Huffington Post Travel series on cruise ships, [...]
US-based Vacation.com acquires Cruise ShoppesNews from TravelBizMonitor: In a bid to expand the Travel Leaders Group portfolio of brands, Vacation.com, a leading leisure travel marketing organisation serving a network of almost 5,100 travel agency locations throughout the US and Canada has acquired Florida-based Cruise Shoppes, the eighth largest consortium in the US. As a result [...]
Vacation.com Buys Cruise ShoppesNews from Travel Agent: December 1, 2011 By: George Dooley Travel Agent Vacation.com just purchased Cruise Shoppes, a national travel agent consortium in Weston, FL focused strictly on cruising. Vacation.com is keeping mum on details of the deal. Vacation.com is owned by Travel Leaders Group, which has been steadily building a stable [...]
National Cruise Week Tip: Use a travel agent to bookNews from Examiner.com: The sales spotlight is on cruise vacations this week during the new National Cruise Vacation Week. Formerly called World’s Largest Cruise Night, the now week-long promotion being launched by Cruise Lines International Association is the highlight of new National Cruise Vacation Month which [...]
