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It’s already into December and you suddenly realize you really don’t want to sit at home that week after Christmas. A quick look online or a call to your travel agent will tell you, a few days in Hawaii or the Caribbean or Mexico really isn’t much of an option, unless you’re prepared to spend thousands in airfare before even beginning to look at prices for the few hotels available.
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Starting June 1, 2009, Americans traveling to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean will need a passport or passport card to cross borders and return home. But, it’s not quite that simple. Here are three exceptions.
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Those older, creakier bodies (and those with traditional disabilities) need to make special arrangements and anticipate problems. However, that’s no reason not to get up and go. Follow these nine rules and your trip will be more enjoyable and less stressful.
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Travel insurance just took a new turn. Cruise lines are now screening passengers to see if they are healthy enough to travel (i.e. do they have flu-like symptoms). In some cases, it’s no longer only up to the passenger to cancel their cruise.
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One of our contributors faces peak exasperation trying to book a Disney cruise and excursions. In the end the cruise and excursions went fine, but only after dozens of computer glitches, frozen screens and finally a call to Disney agents.
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For people who want to get up and go and are feeling the economic pinch, there are ways to travel without breaking the bank. It just takes an increasing amount of creativity.
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When my husband and I first cruised, over 20 years ago, we booked the cheapest flight we could find on the day of sailing and took a local taxi from the airport to the pier in Acapulco. The ship wasn’t using the main pier plus, the taxi driver got lost. Eventually, we were tendered, along with another couple, out to the ship about an hour and a half before it sailed.
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So Yolo Cruises is launching its virgin cruise for “swingers” on April 26, 2009. The week-long charter aboard a Carnival Cruise ship, will set sail from Tampa and head to the Western Caribbean with stops in the Grand Caymans, Cozumel, Belize, Roatan and Honduras. Shocked? Don’t be.
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More and more often nowadays, passengers are mysteriously going overboard on cruise ships, never to be found again. What on earth is going on here? Who has the answers? Perhaps we’ll never know. That’s why they call them mysteries.
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