Here’s the moment this article exists for. Service dogs on cruises raise questions no cruise ad ever addresses. You’ve found the right cruise, your service dog goes everywhere you go, and then the thought lands: what happens to the two of you at the pier? Can the dog board? Can the dog get off the…
For a lot of people, the hesitation about booking a cruise isn’t the ocean. It’s the muster drill — even in today’s format, watching a safety video on your stateroom TV and then finding your way to an unfamiliar muster station to get your card scanned, standing among strangers while a crew member checks you…
Bringing medication on a cruise starts as a small question and grows fast. Do the pill bottles go in the suitcase or the carry-on? What about the insulin that has to stay cold? The CPAP machine and its distilled water? The oxygen concentrator? And what about the CBD gummies you take for sleep — the…
Cruising with a wheelchair raises questions most travelers never have to think about. You’ve found a cruise you like. The price works, the dates work, and then the doubt creeps in: will the ship actually work for you? Will your chair fit through the cabin door? What happens at a port where the ship can’t…
Somewhere right now, a person is looking at a cruise their family wants to take, and quietly running the math on themselves. Cruising with a disability means asking questions most travelers never have to think about. Will the ship work with my wheelchair? What do I do about the medication that has to stay cold?…
ATV excursions are one of the most popular shore excursions in the Caribbean, and it’s not hard to see why — they’re fast, a little dirty, and they get you off the beaten tourist path into terrain most passengers never see. But ATV excursion safety on cruises isn’t something most people think about until they’re…
Search “cruise port scams” and you will find dozens of articles that all say the same things: watch your wallet, don’t trust strangers, use the official taxi stand. That advice isn’t wrong. It’s just incomplete — and incomplete safety advice is a false sense of security wearing the disguise of useful information. This article is…
Every year, cruise passengers find themselves facing the moment they miss their cruise ship, watching it pull away from the dock without them. It happens at embarkation ports when flights run late. It happens at ports of call when shore excursions run long or travelers lose track of time. And it happens to experienced cruisers…
Introduction These cruise port safety tips come from years working plainclothes and uniformed with the NYPD’s Anti-Terrorism Unit and Transit Special Operations Division — protecting tourists in Times Square, Penn Station, and the NYC subway — where I saw exactly how criminals target people in crowded public spaces. Cruise ports are no different — and…