Last week Ned Levi looked at the maritime regulations which are in force for cruise ships and recommended changes, in light of the Costa Concordia tragedy. This week Ned offers safety tips for cruisers, so they are prepared in case an emergency occurs to help them ensure their safety, along with family, and friends traveling with them.
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Some surprises here, at least for long-time ski writers in New England. Okemo and Stowe were mentioned and, long time family resort champ, Smugglers’ Notch that makes its focus children and families was not.
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Ned Levi examines shipboard crime for cruisers in light of recent cases of sexual assault aboard cruise ships, and how cruisers might take personal responsibility for their safety by using awareness, “streetsmarts,” and commonsense.
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Ned Levi discusses the continuing problem of travel photographers being harassed, questioned, and sometimes detained, to stop them making photographs, by private security personnel, even when the pictures are being taken from public spaces. Ned suggests what you can do if it happens to you.
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Ned has surveyed almost 100 business and leisure airline passengers to determine their air travel peeves and frustrations with some surprising results.
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Kids on a plane. No four words incite more acrimonious debate among air travelers. Not “your flight is delayed.” Not “here’s a new fee.” Not even “snakes on a plane.”
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Family travel is on the ascent and there are more package deals targeting all ages than ever before. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t need to be prepared. It can make or break a trip.
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Unlike Rush Limbaugh, my big problem with pornography is when it’s pushed on someone who doesn’t want it. On an airplane it’s virtually impossible to read a pornographic magazine, watch a XXX movie, or scroll through photos on a “porn” website without imposing the pornography on other passengers.
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You’ve arrived at SeaWorld, camera in hand, and youngsters in tow. In the back of your mind is your spouse’s complaint that on the last family vacation, many of your kids’ photos showed little more than the tops of their heads. So my question to you is, “What do penguins and four year olds have in common?”
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