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Carnival Sunshine Is Reborn

Posted on May 19, 2013 by CruiseMiss — Leave a comment

Carnival Cruise Line’s, Carnival Sunshine, recently returned from her first sailing since her $155 million refurbishment and although not all passenger reviews were full of sunshine (pardon the pun) the overall reaction seems to be very positive. She did however…

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Search Called Off For Missing Carnival Spirit Passengers

Posted on May 10, 2013 by CruiseMiss — 1 Comment

On Thursday morning we awoke to the news that two young people had fallen overboard from Carnival Cruise Lines, Carnival Spirit, on Wednesday evening. The couple from Barraba in north-west New South Wales, have been named as paramedic Paul Rossington,…

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No Carnival On This Cruise – Triumph, Dream and Legend Face Technical Issues

Posted on March 15, 2013 by CruiseMiss — 2 Comments

It’s not really been a great few weeks for Carnival Cruise Line. It started with the Carnival Triumph just over a month ago when an engine room fire crippled the vessel and left her adrift for four days. The chaos…

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Cruise Ships Galore

Posted on February 24, 2013 by CruiseMiss — 2 Comments

My most recent Caribbean cruise allowed me to visit some pretty beautiful islands and of course it was definitely a holiday I will remember, but it’s not just about the islands now is it……the other ships we pass on our…

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Is P&O Cruises Oceana Haunted

Posted on February 21, 2013 by CruiseMiss — 7 Comments

Several months ago I spoke about haunted cruise ships and how I thought it would be exciting to investigate an old liner like the Queen Mary, In that blog I also mentioned of strange goings on aboard Oceana during my…

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Caribbean Cruise St Maarten/ Sint Maarten

Posted on February 19, 2013 by CruiseMiss — 3 Comments

St Maarten sadly was our last Caribbean port of call but it ended with some fabulous weather! Our plan here had been to visit Maho Beach (also known as Airplane Beach) but our previous evening had actually gone on until…

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Caribbean Cruise Tortola

Posted on February 18, 2013 by CruiseMiss — Leave a comment

What a really pretty place this is, that was my reaction to Tortola. The sky was a little overcast but it still was very humid and you could just see the sun trying to escape through the clouds. Today we…

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Caribbean Cruise Jamaica

Posted on February 17, 2013 by CruiseMiss — 2 Comments

In the words of Damian Marley, welcome to Jamrock! And what a warm welcome it was! When I first booked the cruise and told people our ports of call I kept hearing the same things over and over again about…

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Caribbean Cruise Cozumel

Posted on February 16, 2013 by CruiseMiss — 4 Comments

Ahhh Cozumel! The day that we had planned as a beach day and what happened, the Carnival Legend pulled up next door and it started raining! OK I can’t blame the Legend as it only rained briefly and it was…

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Caribbean Cruise Roatan

Posted on February 15, 2013 by CruiseMiss — 3 Comments

Roatan was the island I had been looking forward to the most so obviously it would rain torrentially for most of the day wouldn’t it but, that did not stop us enjoying our day. Before we left the UK I…