Dining options in cruises

cruise travel tips — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:59:53 +0000

Food has always played a major factor in vacations as it’s a time when we like to eat whatever we want anytime we like. Often our vacation on trips denies us of this dream. But the time of cruise vacation is here that deliver us with our wish of food independence.
History is always sweat and we would reel back in time to see the first offering of food independence which was by the Norwegian cruise line. The NCL introduced “freestyle cruising” which enabled us to widen the time gap that suited our mood that day between 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. from the conventional timing of 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Another big boon was that you can choose your own seating place, which enabled people to socialize with more people on cruise. Also, NCL offered 5 free restaurants while the others served for $10 to $20 per person enabling us to choose between Mexican, Italian, steak house and more.
Carnival cruise line offered a service called “your dining choice”, which lets us choose between the traditional early time of 6 p.m., the late dining at 8.15 p.m. and your choice timings. Most carnivals have steak house, sushi bar and European style café. Also there is this new service called “the gathering”, which is a two level eatery offering breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Apart from the Italian, Mexican, Asian, Mongolian, Tex-Mex, you can also cook your own custom food from the available resources.
While the above mentioned cruises target the grown up, the Royal Caribbean cruise line has an approach to those travelling with families and kids.
It has an offering called” my family time dining” and “my time dining”. This service is such that you along with your family will be entitled a 40 minutes in the dining room for the kids after which a youth counselor will accompany the kids to club activities in the evenings. This saves the grown up time from spending it on monitoring of kids and saves the kids of the various advice during their club activities by their grown –ups.

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What Are the Best Features on a Princess Cruise?

cruise travel tips — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:08:22 +0000

Princess cruise is the choice for many family cruisers in and around the region of Alaska. It has now decided to launch 21 new tours and new cruise packages as the summer season nears in the Alaska region. It has, along with this, launched new options for on- shore entertainment that aims at providing the tourists with special choices, including organizing their own fishing expeditions with locals, to enjoy the scenic beauty of Alaska.

Princess Cruise has classified its total package schemes into 222 different options that includes varying sorts of entertainment catering to the needs of different types of people from all walks of life. Local authorities are hired to signify the natural and cultural splendors of Alaska to tourists thus showcasing its wildlife and other specialties of the region. It organizes splendid programs like the trekking through the alpine forests of the Alaskan region and glacial adventure at Mendenhall Glacier of Juneau. The trek through the rainforests forests of Alpine is known to have a soothing effect on stressed minds, giving a sense of lasting peace.

Coastal wildlife cruise and marine adventure are two of the specialties offered by Princess Cruise. In the former, it offers high speed boating facilities through waters of Alaska with special emphasis in enjoying the coastal wildlife, especially the northern Alaskan bears, ocras and other wildlife in their natural habitat. The latter, offers activities like fishing, whale watching and shore games.
Also, Princess cruise offers theatrical performances, especially emphasizing on the local tingit culture of the native inhabitants of the Glacier Bay. This offers people interested in exploring the cultural heritage of Alaska helpful background information. Apart from these, Princess cruise is offering services such as the ziprider cable ride at 5330 feet, Hoonah Bike Trek and Glacier Bay Flight seeing. Some of the on-boat restaurants in Princess Cruise are deemed among the best in the island, showcasing a whole range of food available in the island inside the Cruise ship itself.
Princess Cruise, launched in 1965 operates in 260 ports and owns 17 Cruise liners handling 800 thousand guests around the world. In the Princess Cruise line Grand class there are 6 liners that can handle 2600 guests and that offer the best Cruising experience ever. Also the explorer and sun classes are among the top rated cruise liners of the Alaskan region.

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