Happy New Year! Effective January 2, 2018, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is hiking the automatic gratuity paid to crew to $14.50 per person, per day for cruise ship passengers staying in most cabins . This […]
December 31, 2017 – During 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) inspected 164 cruise ships. Of those, 32 received a perfect score, or 19.5% of those inspections. Three cruise ships had failing grade […]
Where will you be on New Years Eve 2017? If you don’t have any plans, why not watch three LIVE webcams with us? We have two fabulous port cams we will be watching, along with the […]
Brad Goreski, 40, celebrity stylist and star of E!’s Fashion Police, married his partner (see video below) Gary Janetti, 51, a television writer and producer while on a Caribbean cruise from Miami. The couple have […]
On Wednesday, December 27, 2017, dozens were injured when the Scylla Cruises cruise ship Swiss Chrystal crashed into a Duisburg, Germany Bridge on the Rhine River. Multiple reports say as many as 30 passengers were injured. […]
Citing the worthless merit of a “frivolous” cruise ship lawsuit, a cruise line has won a settlement against a lawyer. A very rare cruise line lawsuit came to the attention of Cruise Bruise Investigates. The […]
National Geographic has reported a horrible incident involving a lobster. The article by National Geographic (see video below) writer Sarah Gibbens states, “A lobster fished from waters off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada, was found […]
As you travel to destinations around the world (see video below) this month, remember different people and societies celebrate for difference reasons in December. Christianity is the primary religion in only 33% of the world, Islam comprises 21% […]
Another American former U.S. military planned a domestic terror attack (see video below) on American soil, this time on Christmas Day, because he knew it would be heavily crowded. The planned terror attack was near […]
The ferry Mercraft 3 sank in the Philippines (see video below) around 1100 hours on Thursday, December 21, 2017. The ferry had been traveling on rough seas from Ungos port in Real, a town east […]
Cruise Ship Murder History – Kocontes Murder Trial According to court documents, “Lonnie Loren Kocontes and Micki Kanesaki were married in 1995 after meeting in a legal office where they both were employed; he as […]
A Cruise Bruise Investigation has learned the names of those killed on Tuesday, December 19, 2017, (see video below) during a cruise ship excursion to Chacchoben Ruins from two Royal Caribbean International (RCI) cruise ships. […]
Around 0900 hours on Tuesday, December 19, 2017, dozens of cruise ship passengers from two Royal Caribbean International (RCI) cruise ships have reportedly died or been injured as the cruise ship excursion bus they were […]
Daniel Belling, 45, from Dublin, Ireland, his wife Li Yinglei, 36, and their two children were on an 10-day Mediterranean cruise on February 9, 2017 aboard MSC Cruises Magnifica. Only three of them tried to board […]
Viking Ocean Cruises has contracted to build four more ocean cruise ships according to an announcement from Fincantieri. With these new ships, Viking’s ocean cruise fleet will reach 10 cruise ships making the cruise line […]
As the December holidays are upon us, this is the time Cruise Bruise reminds passengers and crew alike about drug overdoses, especially on cruises, in cruise ship ports and particularly the party drug ecstasy (see […]
Was it a big deal or a staged attempt at getting a settlement from Carnival Cruise Lines? A couple who sailed aboard Carnival Fantasy seem to be building a case for compensation due to an […]
The best way to see Alaska is on a cruise. Travelers can experience the awe of the Inside Passage, with its jaw-dropping scenery and diverse wildlife as well as land based thrills on a variety […]
On November 30, 2017, Carnival was welcomed back to tropical paradise Puerto Rico (see video below). Hurricane Maria was regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica and Puerto Rico, and caused catastrophic damage and triggered a major humanitarian crisis in […]
While Carnival Breeze and Carnival Valor were enroute from the Caribbean to Galveston, in international waters near Corpus Christi, Texas, cocaine smugglers were off shore. According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release on December 8, […]
On Sunday, December 10th, Peace Boat organized a special event to celebrate the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) at their headquarters in Tokyo. ICAN is made up […]
The Weather Channel and weather.com released its winter storm names for the 2017-18 season (see 2016 Winter Storm Helena video below), marking the sixth season of naming winter storms. Last year, the first three named winter storms […]
The tradition of uniformed servers parading flaming Baked Alaska during a dining room parade (see video below), while dining cruise ship passengers twirl their napkins in the air, has returned to Carnival cruise ships. Carnival discontinued […]
Carnival Cruise Line plans to bring a Carnival Sunshine (see video below) to Charleston, South Carolina in May 2019 for a year-round schedule of four- and five-day cruises from the Port of Charleston to the Bahamas with increased passenger […]
Back on July 27, 2014, Cruise Bruise reported on the 253-metre-long cruise ship Crystal Serenity cruise ship which had a sold out, inaugural 32-day cruise through the Canadian Northwest Passage on August 16, 2016. Once […]
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