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The Journey’s fresh look at Mexico
Having cruised the Mexican Riviera before, it was indeed a treat to visit ports I’d never visited. While Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta were part of this journey on Azamara’s ship of the same name —...
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Long and short of an Azamara Journey
All good things have to come to an end and, for me, it’s the completion of my cruise on the Azamara Journey, one of the Azamara Club Cruises two ships (the other is the Quest) on a cruise to Mexico’s...
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Late-breaking news on cruising…
From Seatrade Insider… Disney Cruise Line, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises are skipping calls in Mazatlan, Mexico, this week, due to concerns for passenger safety. Seatrade Insider reported...
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Azamara promises becoming realities
In some Blogs, I can take a couple of paragraphs and tell you the whole story. On this one, not a chance. This will take a while but you will find it interesting. When I was on Azamara’s Journey a...
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More bad cruise news for Mazatlan
While other cruise lines were cancelling Mazatlan as a stop on Mexican Riviera cruises out of Los Angeles and San Diego, Carnival was hanging in there — until today. Now you can add Carnival to the...
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Princess cancels Mazatlan
More problems for Mexico. We have just learned, according to one of our readers, that Sapphire Princess has cancelled the port of Mazatlan for Wednesday, March 16th. This means passengers are spending...
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Long road back for San Diego
Just three years ago, the port of San Diego was serving some one million passengers. This year it’ll be maybe one third of that, and next year it’s expected to drop to 200,000. Reasons…the ports in...
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Sales narrow luxury/premium gap
If you think that cruise lines in the luxury and deluxe category are too expensive, think again. Most are in the middle of massive discounts for 2012, obviously protecting themselves against an...
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Princess ramping up on West Coast
Princess Cruises has announced its Pacific Coast schedule for 2012-13, and there are more Pacific cruises offered, including an enhanced 7-day “California Coastal” itinerary. Rather than show you some...
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Cruise round-up: Themes, Barcelona, Mazatlan
Time to go “Around the Horn” with cruise news. It seems forever (it’s actually been 38 years) that the Garrison Keeler’s Prairie Home Companion, located in the fictional town of Lake Woebegone in...
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Land ho-Mazatlan
Phil Reimer–Tropical Storm Patricia is well out of our way and we have finally reached our first port—Mazatlan. As I mentioned, Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas had a bit of bumpy ride yesterday...
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Holland America fall to spring 2010-11
Phil Reimer–Holland America has a busy fall and spring coming up. This year, HAL is offering more variety to its Caribbean, Panama Canal, Mexico and Hawaii cruises. Nine ships—including the not yet...
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Disney does Mexico ‘Kids Free’
The weakness of the Mexican market in Los Angeles is highlighted by the announcement this week that Disney Cruise Lines is offering a “Kids Free” campaign stretching from January 23 to March 20, 2011...
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Colour of Carnival strictly Farcus
Does the name Joe Farcus, ring a bell? It probably shouldn’t, unless you have travelled on Carnival Cruise Lines. I have always said that if you blindfold a passenger, take off the blindfold on any...
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Closeness the key for Azamara Club
The one thing I have to get used to on the Azamara Journey is the closeness of everything. When you’re on a ship that houses about 682 passengers, even the stairs from floor to floor is a short hop....
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Three cruise lines will be returning to Mazatlan after two-year absences over...
Mexico has watched as cruise lines have cut back on Mexican Riviera cruises and abandoned ports such as Mazatlan. The Veendam, leading a three-ship parade back to the Mexican port Now, Holland America...
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WOW! Si…more choices for seeing Mexican Riviera
This week, it’s all about Mexico…in particular, the Mexican Riviera. That part of the cruise world is making a comeback with departures up some 67 per cent to almost three-quarters if a million cruise...
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Coming: The return of the Mexican Riviera!
There’s a reasonable chance that some of you who are reading this today first got the cruise bug by watching the TV series The Love Boat in the late 1970s. If that was a fun decade, the actors had more...
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Tropical Storm Odile heads toward Arizona, as Mexico airlifts stranded...
By Peter Orsi MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government airlifted thousands of stranded foreign tourists out of the hurricane-ravaged resort of Los Cabos, as a weakened Odile headed over the Gulf of California...
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Cruise views and news you can use
Well, I’m just off the Carnival Breeze after seeing iconic classic rock band Styx in one of a series of shows the cruise lines bills as “Carnival Live.” That’s already been covered in earlier blogs...
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Good news for the West Coast
West Coasters are elated. When it comes to availability of cruises out of Southern California compared to Southern Florida the West Coast has been sorely lacking. Let’s face it the Caribbean has a lot...
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Cruising at Christmas and Phil’s Picks
Most cruisers who travel with their families and have sailed during the Christmas holiday season booked their trips months ago. They are wise if they want those adjoining cabins, the larger family...
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Wave Season is almost here
Phil Reimer’s Blog The “Wave Season” is that period between the start of the year until the end of March when cruise lines promote their ships and destinations and put their cruises on sale to entice...
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Mariner home in Mexico
The largest ship ever to offer regular cruise vacations for the Mexican Riviera from the west coast is now operating out of Los Angeles. Royal Caribbean International’s Mariner of the Seas will sail...
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Its official–Disney to California
We mentioned this was going to happen last month and now it’s official. Disney Cruises will base their ship the Disney Wonder in Southern California for at least two years. The Wonder carries 1750...
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Hurricane now Tropical Storm
Carnival Cruise Lines has made one change to their Mexican Riviera schedule for this week. They had been scheduled to cruise to Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. They have now replaced...
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Viva! Return of the Mexican Riviera!
The coastline we affectionately call the Mexican Riviera is making one big comeback after falling flat in 2013. The drop was amazing — from over a million visitors in 2008 to below half a million in...
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Cruise news and views you can use
Rumours are flying around that Virgin Cruises is closing in on making a deal for two large ships. The story indicates that Virgin has selected Fincantieri as the builder of the new cruise line’s first...
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Holland America: Mexico and Hawaii
Lots of Hawaii and Mexico cruises from this fall to next spring with Holland America on the Veendam and the Zaandam. Veendam’s cruises to Mexico conveniently sail round-trip San Diego and visit three...
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