In common with keen tourists from around the world, Australians are taking to cruising like ducks to water.
The cruise industry is the fastest-growing segment of travel and tourism — and Queensland, my home state, is jumping on the bandwagon big time.
Continue reading Queensland cruises into the future
It is well known that a cruise ship’s captain can marry a couple at sea (under certain circumstance). It is perhaps less well known that he or she can also make, and enforce, the law of the high seas.
People who commit offences on board a ship can be confined to their cabin, “jailed” in the brig and expelled from the ship at the next port, with little or no comeback. The captain is the judge, jury and enforcer of the punishment.
Continue reading Why cruise-ship captains have the last callTipping is a way of life in some parts of the world, and something to be avoided in other places. Travellers soon learn whether they need to tip or not.
But it’s on the high seas where things get confusing. Cruise holidays bring together passengers from all parts of the world, and there is often no consensus about how much, or even whether, they should tip.
I wouldn’t normally write about a press release announcing that a cruise line, or other travel company, had won some kind of award or distinction.
However, this is different. Holland America Line has announced that its ms Eurodam has registered a particular achievement for the 11th consecutive time. And that should interest everyone who has ever cruised, or has ever contemplated a cruise holiday.
