Yesterday the Carnival Cruise Line Brand Ambassador was denied boarding on his flight to the United States to join the Carnival Horizon for Carnival’s first cruise back since the pandemic shut down. People were upset, he was upset, and there were a lot of questions of, “Why?” He is fully vaccinated and had a negative…
Yesterday was the “Day of the Seafarer”. My social media was full of posts in support of the hardworking people at sea – crew members on cruise ships, those on cargo ships, ferries – but, much like how these days raise awareness and provide thanks for a day, sometimes it feels like that’s all they…
It seems that every time I hop online there is someone within my wider network of people that has booked a cruise. In fact, UK cruises are only one month out from starting and people are very excited. Passengers have been waiting for over a year to get back out and explore and now that…
Cruise lines are cruising and things are more and more looking like normal. There are still ships sitting at anchor awaiting restarts and… crew still have to quarantine when they join a ship. (Even when passengers can go between ships one after the other and well, this is confusing to me). Regardless though, quarantine is…
It may surprise people to learn that during the whole COVID cruise ship shut down, or more eloquently put by many a cruise line PR person “voluntary pause of global ship operations”, there are still crew on cruise ships. Now, not all the crew by any stretch, but enough to fulfill what is known as…
I was chatting with one of my friends from cruise ship life the other day about the future of cruising. The future of cruising for us though isn’t just about when you can sail away to a tropical paradise again. For us it affects our work, our relationships, and so much of our futures. There…
Stuart and I made it to America the other day. Doesn’t sound that complicated. We fly around the world and between countries pretty regularly. He’s from the UK, I’m from the US. The two countries usually have a pretty open door policy between the two. So, what makes it worth writing a whole post about…
