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All Aboard The Booze Cruise! Celebrity Cruises Starts All-You-Can-Drink Plans

December 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM | by | Comments (0)

One pina colada with a little umbrella, please. Celebrity Cruises has just introduced a whole new item to their shipboard menu: all-you-can-drink plans. That's right—binge drinking ahoy!

There are six different drink plans available for purchase along with your cruise, and they are all detailed on the line's website. The healthiest option is the unlimited bottled water package, priced at $13.50 per cruise night. From there, the offerings climb past fountain drinks ($5.75 per night) all the way up to beer ($34.50 per night), liquor ($51.50 and up), frozen drinks ($22 and up) and primo wines ($114 and up). Celebrity might make some extra dough off of these deals, but are they encouraging unhealthy and rowdy onboard behavior?

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Behind-the-Scenes Cruise Ship Tours Are The New Hot Excursion

July 29, 2009 at 8:59 AM | by | Comments (0)

Cruise ships today are much more than just hotels on water. They’ve got on-board waterparks, golf courses, gyms, spas, and well ... just about everything you can find on land in addition to beds for thousands.

But just how do they manage running all that stuff while the boat’s at sea? It's something we've always wondered, and fortunately cruise lines are starting to realize that we’re curious.

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Alaska Only Becomes Affordable When We're Broke

May 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM | by | Comments (0)

While tourism boards whip out all the bells and whistles in an effot to convince people to hit the road in 2009, aka the era of the staycation or heaven forbid, the nay-cation, expensive and far-flung locales are having to work the hardest to attract tourists.

For this reason, we sympathize with the "Visit Alaska" pitch we recently received, which argues that there's no better time to see the last frontier since the recession has cut resort and cruise prices. And with packages so low, now's the time to take advantage and spend that last bit of rainy day cash in the cookie jar.

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