tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1225548 2009-12-05T18:52:40-05:00 Cruise and travel news, reviews and tips from David G. Molyneaux, editor of TheTravelMavens.com TypePad TravelMavenBloghttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83476d41669e20120a719bd24970b 2009-12-05T18:52:40-05:00 2009-12-05T18:52:40-05:00 David G. Molyneaux Midnight at the Oasis, send your camel to bed. Shadows painting our faces, traces of romance in our heads. Heaven's holding a half moon, shining just for us. Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon, kick up a little dust. 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Molyneaux The $1.4 billion megaship--the largest passenger ship ever made, with room for 6,296 guests--is nearly half again as big as the last biggest cruise ship, RCL's Freedom of the Seas. She's as big as a supertanker or a container ship. 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Molyneaux By now, everybody knows her name. Thanks to morning television, and twitters and blogs by the hundreds, Royal Caribbean's new giant of the seas is the talk of the vacation world -- a floating resort city, the largest cruise ship ever built, with beds for more than 6,000 passengers. 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Molyneaux As airline prices, delays and travel hassles increase, cruise lines are adding new home ports so passengers can drive to their voyage instead of flying. This winter (2009-2010), ships will be operating regularly, snow storms and all, from New York and Baltimore, on Carnival, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity cruise... <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QKzPKLBbk3ZP2TqxgB2tKP2YqtA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QKzPKLBbk3ZP2TqxgB2tKP2YqtA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QKzPKLBbk3ZP2TqxgB2tKP2YqtA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QKzPKLBbk3ZP2TqxgB2tKP2YqtA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?a=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?a=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?a=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?i=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?a=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?a=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:TzevzKxY174"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?a=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?a=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:KwTdNBX3Jqk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TravelMavenBlog?i=cgyWgHJVWXA:p5tYlNIjgug:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TravelMavenBlog/~4/cgyWgHJVWXA" height="1" width="1"/>http://travelmaven.typepad.com/the_travel_maven_blog/2009/11/driving-to-your-cruise-at-a-port-close-to-home.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83476d41669e20120a6a4f149970c 2009-11-03T15:08:02-05:00 2009-11-03T15:12:02-05:00 David G. Molyneaux As Germans celebrate this next week and the world watches -- 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain -- here are some Internet sources for remembering, with maps, pictures and perspectives. 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