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Greetings, Cruise Enthusiasts, Is this overdue from last week? Or way ahead of schedule for next week? I'm not quite sure ??¦ but here it is! To start with, let's talk about "the wave." Surely everyone who loves cruising has heard about the 70- foot wave that smacked into the Norwegian Dawn last Friday night. While it must have been terrifying for those onboard, no lives were lost and injuries were minimal. Friends of yours and mine who are already frightened at the prospect of a cruise ( yeah, I know, why??) will point to "the wave" and say, "See? That's why you'll never get me on one of those!" For the rest of us, however, the 70-foot wave is proof that cruising is amazingly safe. It's proof that cruise ships are built to take it. What we did learn was you shouldn't sit out on your balcony in stormy weather or hang out in a hot tub on deck in bad weather. Happily, no one was doing either of those things when the wave hit. Yes, there were broken windows, but picture what a 70- foot wave will do to a hotel and that ship looks better than ever. Ok. That's my take. I'd like to hear what you think. On a brighter note, Pat can now provide shipboard credits for new individual NCL bookings by April 28 in every ship except the Pride of Aloha or Pride of America. Pick your NCL cruise and if you select a 3- , 4-, or 5-day cruise, you'll get $25 shipboard credit for an inside cabin, $50 for an oceanview or balcony cabin and $100 for a suite. For a 6- or 7- day cruise, an inside cabin earns $50 shipboard credits, $75 for ocean-view or balcony cabins and $ 125 for a suite. On a longer cruise, earn $50 for an inside cabin, $$125 for an ocean-view or balcony booking and $150 for a suite. Combine the shipboard credits with Pat's fantastic low discount fares for Alaska and you can't hardly afford to stay home! Seriously, Pat has excellent Alaska fares for NCL's Norwegian Sun and Norwegian Star (both terrific ships that we have sailed on and really liked. They are sister ships to the Norwegian Dawn, too, so you know they can take it!) To learn more, give Pat a call toll-free at 1-866-424-1090 or drop him an email at cruiseplanners7seascruises@msn.com. You're welcome at the website, too. Visit www.7seascruises. com, but don't believe the prices. Pat can often do better! Now, some news??¦ From the Great Barrier Reef and cosmopolitan Sydney to pastoral New Zealand and the exotic Orient, Holland America Line now offers intriguing escapes throughout the Pacific Rim aboard the 1,258-guest, five-star ms Statendam. Cruises visit Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Japan, China, Korea and Russia from November 2005 through May 2006 and from September through December 2006. Holland America comfort and the exotic Pacific! Sounds like a great combination to me. The beloved old NCL Norway will transfer to sister company Star Cruises, where it will be used in a new venture. Star is making arrangements to tow the Norway to Port Klang, Malaysia, in the "near future, " NCL said. Star did not disclose any specific plans for the vessel. The Norway was damaged in a boiler explosion in Miami in May 2003 and has been laid up at the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Germany since. NCL said the ship would not return to the NCL fleet, and last month CEO Colin Veitch said NCL had "done our bit in giving the ship the best chance" of finding a new home. Princess Cruises will debut the New Crown Princess beginning Jun 14, 2006 sailing from New York. This inaugural sailing season will feature nine-day roundtrip voyages from New York to both the Eastern and Western Caribbean and will include Princess' return to Bermuda. Beginning June 14 and running through October 18, 2006 Crown Princess will offer 10 sailings on an Eastern Caribbean itinerary with calls at Bermuda (West End), San Juan, St. Thomas and a new port of call for Princess, Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos Islands. In addition, the lineup includes five sailings with a Western Caribbean itinerary and stops at another new port for Princess, Port Canaveral -- as well as Grand Cayman, Ocho Rios and Grand Turk. Regal Princess, which was built in 1991 and carries 1,690 passengers, will leave the Princess fleet and transfer to Ocean Village, a sister company based in the U.K., in November 2006. The transfer will set Princess' cruises overall berth space back by about 5%; Ocean Village's berth space, meanwhile, will jump by 108%. The Regal Princess is one of the oldest in the Princess fleet. Royal Caribbean International is bringing its outstanding entertainers to shore. Royal Caribbean Productions, the cruise line's in-house production company, is now available to perform at land-based corporate events and private functions. To give event planners a preview of the entertainment options available, the company has launched a new web site - www.royalcaribbeanproductions.com - that also includes information on how aspiring dancers, singers and comedians worldwide can audition to join the company's ensemble. The latest change in the banned items list for airline passengers is cigarette lighters. This one has a lot of people excited - including the Zippo company and the manufacturer of other "brand name" lighters. It's one thing to hand over your yellow plastic Bic. It would be quite another to surrender your sterling silver Zippo. Better to just leave it at home! Here is the current list of banned and acceptable items aboard aircraft: Leave these at home: Baseball bats Bleach Fireworks Golf clubs (acceptable if checked in a proper carrier) Ice picks Knives (any length, except round-bladed or butter knives) Lighters Mace/pepper spray Saws Scissors, metal with pointed tip Screwdrivers Ski poles Starter pistols Tools Weapons These are now okay to carry aboard: Cigar cutters Corkscrews Eyeglass repair tools Your knitting or crocheting including knitting needles Matches (up to four packs, and not strike-anywhere matches) Nail clippers Nail files Safety razors Scissors, blunt-tipped Toy weapons (if not realistic-looking) Tweezers (thank you!) Umbrellas For a full list, go to www.tsa.gov. Cruise ships are slightly more liberal, allowing lighters, but when in doubt, ask before you leave on vacation! That's it for this edition. Wishing you a great week! Teri |
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