Steal of the Week: Sail the Southern Caribbean From $71 Per Night

Everyone is looking for the deal of the century. So how do you choose the one that’s right for you? Check the Lido Deck each week to get the scoop on our favorite deals — then grab the phone and pack your bags. THE DEAL: iCruise.com is offering a seven-night Southern Caribbean cruise onboard Celebrity [...]

Do You Have a … #CruiseWorldProblem?

Everyone’s got problems. Some problems are just a bit, how should we say, less significant than others (and therefore much more fun to laugh at). A couple of Cruise Critic members took to the boards with a sailing spin on a popular Internet trend. What resulted is a delightful reflection of cruisers’ most potentially pressing [...]

Bad First Impression Quickly Melted on Reflection

A long line at embarkation put a bad taste in cats36‘s mouth, but once onboard Celebrity Reflection, Champagne quickly washed that taste away. Settled in a quiet, spacious cabin at the bow of the ship, cats36 had spectacular views when not dining on ice cream, blintzes and “the largest lobster tail I have ever had.” [...]

Meeting, Mingling and Moving the Miracle

Waves “worse than…Hurricane Sandy” and some cold New York temperatures hardly affected solo cruise veteran cv322 onboard the March repositioning of Carnival Miracle. With no shortage of compliments to the crew, cv322 noted the small touches (from replacing wrecked wine to serving special shrimp) that made it an otherwise smooth sailing. Unimpressed by tired activities [...]

Many Happy Returns to Gem

As a repeat birthday gift, “from me to me,” Rhea58, who helped organize the Cruise Critic Meet & Greet, sailed easily from New York to the Eastern Caribbean onboard Norwegian Gem in February. Doing shore excursions solo, Rhea58 found a quaint sidewalk cafe for dinner in the French district of Phillipsburg, serious shopping in St. [...]

Allure and All That Jazz

Sailing the largest cruise ship in the world through the Western Caribbean, it all boiled down to Bruce for kjf325 onboard Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. Sure, there were plenty of on-ship sports, spacious rooms, “first-class” shows, and even Starbucks, but The Bruce Gordon Quartet “transports you back to the days when music was [...]

Never Heard “No” on Celebrity Eclipse

Trialawyer offers 10 “compelling reasons” to sail onboard Celebrity Eclipse, after his two-week trip to the Southern Caribbean in a spa-outfitted AquaClass cabin. Listed last but not least is the crew, which Trialawyer describes as the ship’s “heart and soul.” Other considerations include the state of the public bathrooms, the “progressive” smoking policy and the [...]

Post-Triumph Pricing, Like Cruising, Unlikely to Drop

Millions were watching two weeks ago as Carnival Triumph limped back to Mobile, Alabama, after an engine room fire left more than 4,000 passengers and crew stranded off the Gulf of Mexico for five days. Somewhere in those millions are cruisers undeterred from sailing again, even planning their next cruises as coverage played out, and, [...]