Royal Caribbean

When you go on a cruise, meals are almost always included (actually, I can’t think of a cruise line that charges for meals, but I’m keeping the “almost” in there,…

Many retail businesses have some sort of “backstage” area that customers, or what have you, aren’t supposed to see. Depending on the business, this is the area where extra inventory…

Each cruise line has its own niche. Four Seasons is for those who expect the greater things in life. Carnival focuses on smaller budgets and tends to be the “party”…

Unless you’re in the position to do a last-minute cruise, like if you’re on Holland America’s new standby list, chances are you’ve planned your cruise months, if not years ahead…

When there are competing entities in an industry, there tends to be a lot of  “keeping up with the Joneses.” American Airlines was the first major US airline to charge…

For some people, money is no object. They’ll own several multi-million dollar homes around the world. They think nothing of spending several million dollars on a Rolls-Royce or Lamborghini. And…

If you like to travel, chances are that, at one point or another, you’ve read about the secret bedrooms, where flight crew sleep during long haul flights. When flight crew…

Cruise? Cruise? Did someone say cruise? While that word makes my ears perk up, Sharon’s not so enthusiastic when thinking about the idea of sitting on a ship in the…

The governor of Florida has been playing “chicken” with the CDC and cruise companies for several weeks. Whether he’s doing it as a form of political grandstanding or because he’s…

Although cruises in the United States are still on “pause,” they’ve restarted in other parts of the world, with varying degrees of success. In this case, Royal Caribbean had a…