January 19, 2011 | Author: Jennifer Miner
Have you ever wondered what makes the best cruise ships, well, the best? Frommer's announced its Best Cruise Ships of 2011 last week and, having been on a few cruises myself, I wondered about the criteria used by Frommer's cruise travel experts to determine [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises, Interviews, Travel News | 7 comments
December 31, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Miner
Southeast Alaska cruises are wonderful travel experiences; one wish The Vacation Gals have for the New Year is that everybody who wants to explore Alaska this way, can do so. The funniest coincidence that The Vacation Gals as a whole experienced this past year [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises, Family Travel | 13 comments
December 10, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Miner
Jeannette McCurdy is one of the stars of Nickelodeon's iCarly, along with Nathan Kress and, of course, Miranda Cosgrove. My kids love Jeanette McCurdy and the gang, in fact, iCarly is one of their favorite Nickelodeon shows (along with Spongebob Squarepants, [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises, Family Travel | 2 comments
November 5, 2010 | Author: Contributor
When I was working on cruise ships there was this unwritten code about things we were not supposed to discuss with passengers. And I always thought one day, when I was no longer in their employment, I would finally be able to provide some sound advice for [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises | 7 comments
August 25, 2010 | Author: Kara Williams
My family has just returned from an incredible 7-day Holland America cruise of Alaska's Inside Passage and Glacier Bay National Park. This trip, which began and ended in Vancouver, Canada, held a lot of firsts for us. For my husband, kids and I, it was our [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises, Family Travel | 11 comments
August 4, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Miner
Here's a video of a brown bear sighting in Ford's Terror, in the Endicott Arm fjord/Tracy Arm-Ford's Terror Wilderness area of southeast Alaska. Guests of the Fantasy Cruises' small ship cruise through Alaska's Inside Passage saw several brown bears; our [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises | 3 comments
July 27, 2010 | Author: Contributor
We had officially lost our minds. We decided to take our baby girl who was almost nine months old on our Alaskan cruise. Sure she has been on over thirty flights, ten states, and a foreign country, but a cruise was a whole new ballgame. We were excited, [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises, Travel Tips | 9 comments
July 23, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Miner
Glacier calving pictures and videos show images of Earth's changing surface. Alaska small cruise ship vacations are excellent ways to experience the Inside Passage, and glacier tours are even more interesting with glacier calving that can be captured in [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises, Destinations, Romantic Getaways | 6 comments
July 20, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Miner
Small cruise ships in Alaska's Inside Passage are able to provide travelers with incredible, uniquely Alaskan vacations that the large cruise ship tours can only dream of. The southeast Alaska small cruise ship I experienced was, without a doubt, one of the [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises, Destinations, Romantic Getaways | 7 comments
July 16, 2010 | Author: Beth Blair
One of the most difficult decisions during the planning of our Princess Cruises Alaska Cruisetour was deciding on our land and shore excursions. I wanted to see Alaska in its various forms, and that's exactly what we ended up doing. Looking back, it was the [Read more]
Posted in: Cruises | 3 comments
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