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You Can Decide On The Best Carnival Cruise Line

June 22, 2011 By tgworldw 1 Comment

Planning your vacation by boarding a Carnival Cruise Line can be a bit tricky. You may have to consider where you’re boarding from before you can decide on your destination. If you’re one from Los Angeles, the first thing you have to find out is the availability of a Carnival Cruise Line departing from Los Angeles. You will find two cruises available; one is for a 4-night trip to Mexico Baja and another one for a 7-night trip to the Mexican Rivera all departing from the San Diego port of call. If you will choose your dates carefully, you will find that some cruise dates are available at greatly discounted prices.  

The Carnival Cruise Line  for Mexico Baja trips are offered for as low as 9 for Inside Cabins on some dates while the 7-night Mexican Riviera which are regular priced at around 9 can be availed  at only 9 also for Inside Cabins. The Mexico Baja cruise will bring you on board the Carnival Cruise Line – Carnival Paradise. Every stateroom in every cruise ship is different but basically has the features.

Deciding on Your Choice of Stateroom
The Inside Cabin of the Carnival Paradise has Pullman-style bunk beds. It has a private bath with shower facilities and a living room with closet and storage space, a vanity and seating provisions. There’s an air conditioning unit with thermostat controls, a television set, a telephone and a personal safe. The only difference it has with an Ocean view Cabin is that the latter has a picture sized window or porthole, it has a larger area and there’s a choice of having a sofa bed or the same Pullman style bunk bed.        

Some people tend to dislike the Inside room for its lack of window although this is really not a big matter since you don’t have to stay in it most of the time. The Carnival Cruise Line will only take 4-nights of traveling. On your first day you will wake up to find yourself at Ensenada, Mexico hence you will be spending most of the day exploring the place. You will only be spending a whole day at the Carnival Paradise on your second day while traveling the seas on your way back to Long Beach, California. For the price of 9 per person which is already all-inclusive of your meals on board, the price seems like a good bargain.        

What Can You Do on Board the Carnival Paradise for your Fun at Sea?  
First off, you will have access to the Riviera Decks. If you want to have simple relaxation to spend your day at sea, you can go to the library where there is a wide selection of reading materials to choose. You can find a massage or loofah room or a fully equipped spa room to complete your relaxation experience. If you want to shed off some of those pounds, get yourself into the aerobics room or jog around a padded jogging track or take a swim into one of two adult pools. If you still don’t want to retire and take a good night’s rest, you can spend the evening at a Vegas style casino and live entertainment or if you just prefer a smooth relaxing evening stay at some cocktail lounge and piano bar.

What to Find in a Carnival Cruise Line – Mexican Baja Trip     
Enjoy a day of exploring Ensenada, Mexico with all its colorful Aztec influenced arts and crafts. Enjoy a day of shopping for fine Mexican silver jewelry and colorful potteries and other handcrafted items. Live music and traditional costumes are always in exhibit at public plazas or you can have additional fun at the beach wind-surfing, sailing, snorkeling or scuba diving.     

What Can the 7-Night Carnival Cruise Line the Mexican Riviera Offer you?

This Carnival Cruise Line will bring you on board the Carnival Splendor which has additional amenities you won’t find at Carnival Paradise. There’s the new Carnival Splendor Seaside Theatre equipped with 12′x22′ jumbo-sized LED screen where you can watch movies, news and concerts. Swing away at a new 9-hole mini-golf course with greens lie any typical golf course. Then there’s the new Thalassotherapy Pool which spews out jets of water to massage your body using a special formulation of ocean water rich in vitamins.

In this Carnival Cruise Line bound for the Mexican Rivera, you will be visiting the more exotic and historical places of Mexico like, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas and you will have three days of sea travel so you can enjoy all the amenities of the state of the art Carnival Splendor.

Your Inside Cabin will have the same basic features as that of the Carnival Paradise and still affordably priced for 7-nights stay at only 9. For a little price difference, you may opt to choose this Carnival Cruise Line. You’ll be doubling your sea travel time to experience more of the hotel-like features that the Carnival Splendor has to offer aside from visiting more exotic Mexican tourist spots.

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How to Quickly Find Cruise Lines Online

June 22, 2011 By tgworldw Leave a Comment

Your first stop is to the cruise lines industry organization, Cruise Lines International Association, Inc. or CLIA. CLIA brings travel agents together with the 23 major cruise lines and helps promote industry safety and regulatory policy. You can link directly to the cruise lines websites by using the Cruise Lines tab at the top of the page, or search for cruises by destination using a drop-down box on the right. CLIA provides cruise accreditation training to travel agents, and you can search for an accredited cruise specialist near you from the website.

CruiseLines.us offers a larger list of links, and includes more diverse cruise lines. You can link to the big lines, but also some you won’t find on the travel consolidator websites like Orbitz and Travelocity. You can research clipper ship cruises on smaller lines like Windjammer, Star Clippers or Windstar Cruises. You can also find Australia or Europe-only cruises, and look up Chinese and European river cruises. If you are really in the chips, you can see about a cruise on the Sea Cloud, which originally was Marjorie Merriweather Post’s private luxury yacht (pictured above).

Cybercruises.com has a very extensive list of cruise lines arranged by type, such as river cruises, sailing ships, and freighter cruises. If you are interested in cruising in Antarctica, up the Nile River, or along the coast of Scotland, this is the place to begin your search.

Finally, Raynorshyn.com offers a bare-bones alphabetical list of links to major and minor cruise lines. It is pretty extensive, and links to some obscure lines and even ferry lines. A neat feature is a list of links to ship webcams. Right now I can see that the Norwegian Majesty is at sea, and the P&O Oceana is in port in Barbados. How cool is that?

I hope these links help you plan your next trip. Happy cruising!

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Carribbean Cruises – 5 Tips to choose the best cruise lines.

June 22, 2011 By tgworldw Leave a Comment

When thinking about vacation, many tend to list Carribbean cruises as one of the options. However, there are quite a number of Carribbean cruises lines to choose from. It would be time consuming to pick the very best that meet your need. The following tips can save your time.

1. Determine where you want to go. This will help you to choose from Eastern, Western or Southern Carribbean cruises. Each cruise line has its own itinerary. The Western Carribbean routes include Cozumel, Mexico, Grand Cayman, Belize, Jamaica and Costa Maya, Mexico. The Eastern routes normally include San Juan, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Tortola and Labadee, and Haiti. Whereas the Southern routes may include St. Thomas, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Antiqua, Dominica, Barbados, Aruba, and Curacao. If you have specific locations that you must visit, then that cruise line should be the priority.

2. Check what kind of activities or excursions that the cruise line offers at each port. Are the activities more towards families, or for couples or singles? Those for families will have children facilities on board and excursion that all family member can participate, whereas adult only cruises normally offers more time for them to spend on their own. Thus, pick the one that meet the kind of vacation you are planning.

3. Check the dining preferences. Do you want a scheduled dining times or alternate dining options? If you care about your meal schedule, then this factor too can help you to pick the best cruise lines for you.

4. Gather someone else experience. It can be from families and friends or from other sources like printed materials or the internet. I bet there are so many shared experiences on the net, you just need to look them up. From all these experiences, you should be able to make up your mind.

5. Determine your budget. Some cruise lines are more expensive and luxurious than others. So pick the one that within your budget. Take into consideration extra money you will need like for entertainment, excursions, food, drinks, taxi fares if you stop at port-of-call and plan to visit around the place, or things you might purchase at the stops.

Cruising on the Carribbean could be your once in a lifetime experience. Therefore, it is essential to determine which Carribbean Cruises lines to go with. You can’t go wrong by choosing Carribbean cruises, but your vacation is dull if you choose the wrong cruise line.

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