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A first: Guests from Silver Explorer were able to land on the desolate Elephant Island last week
It’s taken him ten years of thwarted attempts, but Captain Alexander Golubev, master of Silversea’s expedition ship, Silver Explorer, has finally succeeded in landing guests on desolate Elephant Island off the coast of Antarctica. Keep reading →
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The Web site ebay has taken down items related to the Costa Concordia disaster.
Multiple newspapers have reported that the online auction Web site ebay has pulled items from its site being sold as memorabilia from the Costa Concordia disaster.
An ebay spokesperson said the site deemed three items up for auction as inappropriate because of their relationship to Costa Concordia.
Two of the items were casino tokens emblazoned with the name of the ship, while the third was a “joke bid” to auction off the ship itself. Bidding for the first casino token was set to start at $900 US, while gkaac, from Massachusetts in the US offered another token up for $1800 before the site reacted.
There are currently still several model ships of the Concordia up for auction on the site.
While there’s no doubt the postings are in poor taste, it does bring to mind further comparisons with the sinking of the Titanic. There is a large market for Titanic memorabilia, particularly this year, the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. From cruise lines selling memorial cruises as pilgrimages to the site where the ship foundered to this set of telegrams an American company has put up for bid, we’ve covered the subject extensively in our blog.
–Jamey Bergman
What do you think? How soon is too soon for memorializing and memorabilia? Comment below.
See all our coverage of the events surrounding the Costa Concordia disaster.
We’ve all done it. Maybe you slip away for a weekend without alerting your family. Maybe you feign feeling poorly to add an extra day onto a holiday. Maybe you take a week-long cruise, and tell the members of your congregation you’re off on a spiritual retreat.
Ok, not too many of us have probably done that last one, but that is what Father Massimo Donghi, a Roman Catholic priest in the Italian village of Besana Brianza located near Milan told his flock of faithful followers before boarding Costa Concordia on its ill-fated cruise.
Batten down the hatches - it's rough out there
Every cruiser loves a good storm story and our recent blog post, ‘Ten ways to tell you’re in for a bumpy ride’, sparked thrilling tales from Cruise Critic members of battling with the elements on the high seas. Here are some of our favourites, a.k.a. ‘More ways to tell it’s pretty evil out there’:
If you had been on Costa Concordia when the ship capsized, I asked my friend Moustafa, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen and a devoted family man, which escape strategy would you prefer: all families together or women and children first?
Angry Birds: The game of choice for killing time on a boring bus journey
Inconveniently, the big attractions in cruise destinations aren’t always near the ports. As a result, shore excursions often begin and end with a long bus ride, which doesn’t always show off the country at its best. A case in point: A tedious, five hour journey going from Hanoi to the port of Hai Phong to join Orion Expedition Cruises‘ Orion II on my recent expedition cruise to Vietnam, crawling along a highway in darkness amidst a line of trucks, with nothing to look at. Keep reading →
Yes, yes. We all know that we’re supposed to be miserable at this time of year. Party season’s over, the joy of Christmas has faded back into the routine of commutes and long hours, and the sun’s gone on its annual multi-month sabbatical. Blah. Blah. Blah.
And then, as if things weren’t bad enough, people are using algorithms to try to determine which day is the most depressing. Some people say it was Monday, 23 Jan., while others insist it was Monday, 16 Jan.
Well, we at Cruise Critic say, ‘Who cares?’ And we know one guaranteed way to defeat the doldrums no matter when they hit: Take a cruise, of course!
But, how about you? How have you beaten “Blue Monday?” Answer in our poll or tell us your story in the comments section below.
For a blues beating-deal, check out this 14-day Caribbean cruise on Azamara Journey from £1559, including flights and a stay in Miami.
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This was the only trip that would confirm that there would be no fuel surcharge.
No, this isn’t a photo of a ship that’s being towed because of too many parking tickets or some species of marsupial river cruiser, this is actually AMAWaterways‘ AmaDagio being transported from its former home in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where it travelled the Rhine, Mosel and Danube to its new home in Marseille, France.
