Travel Tips & Advice
Travel tips & advice from the Cruisers Logbook. Find interesting articles and blog posts with tips to enhance your vacation by our authors and guests
To Buy Excursions … Or Not?
Cruisers are usually confronted with the question of whether they should purchase excursions to complete their days in port . Generally, there are these different mindsets when it comes to excursions ...
Should I Buy Travel Insurance?
You have just decided on your vacation travel plans, consulted with your travel professional, and laid your credit card down for the deposits required to reserve your holiday plans. The subject of travel insurance has just come up, and having just spent money on the deposits and with the total amount left to pay ...
Top 5 Reasons to Use a Travel Professional
Your travel professional will take time to get to know you – your likes, dislikes – everything that determines the right fit for you in a vacation. Based on this, he/she will give you recommendations and carry out all the travel bookings ...
Travel Tips for Morocco
Travel Tips for Morocco So, your Western Mediterranean cruise will be stopping in Morocco. How lucky you are! It is a stunningly beautiful country. Morocco boasts endless sandy beaches on the Atlantic Ocean [...]
Does the Early Bird Get the Worm?
Advantages of Early Booking If you have been cruising for a long time, you probably don’t need to read this article. You've been booking your cruises well in advance – most of the time – [...]
How Safe is Cruising?
Nothing can be said to be of an absolute certainty in this world – as I am sure it could be said at any age in history. So is cruising safe? The following is this [...]
Why You Should Try an Escorted Vacation
If you are thinking an escorted cruise is anything like an escorted land tour, please think again. Escorted cruises give you the best of both worlds – independence but assistance when or if you need [...]
Why Use a River Cruise Specialist?
Whether this is your first river cruise or if you have experienced one or more of this type of cruising in the past, you will always benefit from employing the expertise of a river cruise [...]
Romantic Venice
A Gondola Ride Something everyone should have on their bucket list: taking a gondola ride in Venice. Evidently most people must think this way, as today there are about 400 gondoliers plying the waters of [...]
Calling All Ocean Cruisers & Future Cruisers
Hesitant to Book That River Cruise? You are an avid cruiser. You’ve done a variety of ocean cruises on contemporary to luxury lines, you’ve visited all the Caribbean hotspots, photographed the glaciers in Alaska and [...]