January 4, 2013...5:04 pm

Best blogs of 2012: Chosen by you.

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If there’s one thing we love about January (no, it’s not the short, grey days and cold weather), it’s the chance it gives us to take a look back over the previous year and assess what we’ve done best.

To that end, our archivist and statistician has come up with a list of the blogs from 2012 that you, our readers, liked the best. A sort of ‘Greatest Hits,’ if you will.

So take a look back with us, and enjoy the Top 5 blogs from 2012.

 

5.)  A cruise ship etiquette lesson, like it or not

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You might not expect someone named Picklebongo, a moniker evoking gherkins and beatniks, to kick off a debate on at-sea etiquette. But Picklebongo did just that, weighing into the underwater minefield of dos and don’ts on the Cruise Critic message boards.
The conversation raged.

 

 

4.)  6 more ways to tell you’re in for a bumpy ride

Every cruiser loves a good storm story, and our fourth most popular blog post was a follow-up to our third most popular (below), ‘Ten ways to tell you’re in for a bumpy ride.’ Both sparked thrilling tales from Cruise Critic members of battling the elements on the high seas. These are some of your stories that were our favourites:

 

 

 

3.)  10 ways to tell it’s going to be a bumpy ride

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Ships’ captains, not wanting to be scaremongers, are notoriously understated in their weather forecasting. ‘You may feel the ship moving a bit’ in the captain’s daily address is a euphemism for, “The waves are going to be enormous and lots of you are likely to be seasick.”
This blog, that inspired 6 more ways to tell you’re in for a bumpy ride is the original. So, here are 10 sure signs it’s going to be bumpy.

 

 

2.)  Videos from Hurricane Sandy:
A bumpy ride onboard Disney Fantasy

The videos in our second most popular blog are just two of what are likely to have been loads of smart-phone recordings shot during a bumpy ride onboard Disney Fantasy on the 26 and 27 October, when the ship sailed through Hurricane Sandy.

These two separate eye-witness accounts give similar reports of ship, passengers and crew enduring 30-50 foot waves over the course of 12 hours as the ship made its way to Port Canaveral. With winds gusting to hurricane strength and beyond, it probably made for a long night.

 

 

1.)  Undercover, under-researched and underwhelming

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An undercover reporter for Channel 4, Paul Mills, got himself a job on Celebrity Eclipse as an assistant waiter, filming secretly for the station’s ‘Dispatches’ news tabloid, and then went about his work condemning the cruise line for the low pay, the long hours and unsavory practices going on below decks.

Our response to the programme became our most popular blog in 2012. And your responses — all 141 of them — are the most we’ve ever had on any blog.

See what all the fuss was about. Read ‘Undercover, under-researched and underwhelming’.

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